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Andrea Barrica grew up in Folsom, California, a first-generation American in a Filipino immigrant household that she describes as religious and conservative. That background perhaps makes one of her best-known achievements seem unlikely: she is the founder of O.school, a virtual clearinghouse based in San Francisco that provides sex education for women and the LGBTQ community. Its overarching concerns include how sex education can be freed from shame and offered without judgment and how sexual wellness can be promoted through accurate, up-to-date information. Barrica attended Bard College at Simon’s Rock, an “early college” in Massachusetts from which she went on to attend Nanjing Normal University, in China, and the University of California at Berkeley, where she earned a degree in linguistics at the age of 20. Early in her career, Barrica cofounded inDinero.com, an accounting and financial services organization, and worked as a venture capitalist f