Andrea is a two-time Pulitzer winning journalist who has documented the lives of poor Americans, Muslim immigrants and other people on the margins of power. She is an investigative reporter for The New York Times and the author of Invisible Child, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. She is also the recipient of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, a George Polk award, an Overseas Press Club award and was awarded a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.

In 2023 and 2024, Andrea was a Writer in Residence at Princeton University, teaching creative nonfiction. In 2015, she was awarded Columbia University’s Medal for Excellence, given to one alumnus under the age of 45. She has also received honorary doctorates from Occidental College and from Niagara University, which cited her “courage, perseverance, and a commitment to fairness for those without a public voice rarely demonstrated among writers today.”

Andrea is a literary ambassador for Freedom Reads, which brings libraries to prisons, and a proud, longtime member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She came to The Times from The Miami Herald, where she covered crime, immigration and Latin American politics. Raised in Washington, D.C. by a Chilean mother and an American father, she earned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.