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Award–winning journalist Andrea Bernstein is the Director of the public radio Transportation Nation project, a partnership with WNYC, The Takeaway, Marketplace, WAMU (Washington, DC), WMFE (Orlando), KUHF (Houston), YPR (Montana and Wyoming), and KALW (San Francisco). She is also a regular guest–host on the Brian Lehrer show.

As editor, producer, and senior correspondent, Bernstein leads a team in covering transportation, infrastructure, and urban planning for the Transportation Nation partners and their blog, TransportationNation.org.  Their articles and radio stories regularly break news, and provide in-depth coverage of local and national conversations as the way we get around changes in the 21st century.  Bernstein also led the Transportation Nation team in putting together an hour-long radio documentary "Back of the Bus: Mass Transit, Race, and Inequality."

In 2007 and 2008, as Political Director for WNYC and the Takeaway, Bernstein covered the presidential election from the primaries through the debates to election night, culminating her work in the Takeaway series "Counties that Count," which focused on voter attitudes and opinions in eleven key swing counties across America.  She and Brian Lehrer pioneered the podcast "Digesting Politics," revived every election season, an informal web-only discussion between Andrea, Brian, and the political reporting team.

Bernstein joined the WNYC news staff in 1998. She’s covered government and politics since the early 1990's, and has at various points been assigned to Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer, David Paterson, Andrew Cuomo, and Charles Schumer. She’s also covered NYC development, campaign finance, rebuilding at the World Trade Center Site and the campaign for the 2012 Olympics.

Bernstein was one of 12 US Journalists to win a prestigious year-long 2007 Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. She has won over 3 dozen awards for her work, including the Investigative Reporters and Editors award for radio, the National Press Club award for environmental reporting, and national Murrow (RTNDA) and Society for Professional Journalists awards for investigative reporting.

She was a political correspondent for the New York Observer for eight years, and her work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, Newsday, the Nation, the New York Daily News, and Salon.com.

She graduated from Yale University, cum laude, with honors.

She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and two children.