Andrea Bernstein is in charge of political and campaign coverage at WNYC. Since joining WNYC in 1998 Bernstein has extensively covered national, local, and state politics. She's covered Hillary Clinton since rumors began of a New York Senate race (including the short-lived Senate race against Rudy Giuliani) and has extensively covered City Hall during both the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations.
Ellen Malcolm has had a long career in politics, particularly in political fund raising. She is an heiress of one of the founders of IBM. After graduating from Hollins College in 1969, she worked for Common Cause in the 1970s. She was a press secretary for National Women's Political Caucus and later Esther Peterson, special assistant for consumer affairs in the Carter administration. She went on to found EMILY's List and is now president of America Coming Together.
Dee Dee Myers is the first woman and youngest person ever to serve as White House press secretary. Since leaving the white house, Myers has worked as a political analyst, commentator and writer. She is currently a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine and a frequent political commentator on NBC and MSNBC. In March of 1999, Governor Gray Davis appointed Myers to the California State University Board of Trustees. Her book, Why Women Should Rule the World (Harper Collins, 2008), considers the question: What would happen if women ruled the world?
Cecile Richards is the current president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She previously founded and served as president of America Votes, a coalition of more than thirty national organizations. Before that she was deputy chief of staff to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives. She has also worked at the Turner Foundation.
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