Andrea is a financial strategist and MBS analyst at The Baker Group. She began her career in Washington, D.C., working on the capital markets sales & trading desk at Fannie Mae for five years before returning to Oklahoma to work in corporate finance. Today, her work focuses on mortgage products.
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