Transportation Nation combines the work of public radio newsrooms and our listeners as the way we build, rebuild and get around the nation changes.  Our partners are: WNYC, WAMU, KUHF, YPR, KALW, WMFE, Marketplace and The Takeaway.

ANDREA BERNSTEIN is the director of Transportation Nation.  In 2007 and 2008, Bernstein was political director for WNYC and The Takeaway.  She joined WNYC News in 1998, and also worked for eight years as political correspondent for the New York Observer. 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.

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. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, Newsday, and New York Magazine. She’s a regular guest-host on The Brian Lehrer Show.

JANET BABIN is a reporter for WNYC and Transportation Nation. Before joining New York Public Radio in July, Janet reported for American Public Media’s Marketplace. In 2010 and 2011 she was based in the New York bureau and, before that, at the show’s North Carolina bureau. Janet originated Marketplace’s Innovations Desk in 2005. She’s worked as a contract reporter for NPR, and her stories have been heard on many NPR programs.  She lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, and loves the NYC MTA’s 2 and 3 subway lines. She tries to avoid taking the Q train. Follow her on Twitter here.

MATT DELLINGER is the author of Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway. He has written for The New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Oxford American, Smithsonian, the Wall Street Journal magazine, and The New York Times and has reported on transportation and planning stories for The Takeaway. Dellinger worked for 10 years on staff at The New Yorker as an illustrations editor, multimedia editor, and the producer and host of the New Yorker Out Loud, the magazine’s first weekly podcast. He born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and lives in Brooklyn. Follow him on Twitter here.

MARTIN DiCARO is a reporter for WAMU in Washington, D.C. He has worked at some of the most popular radio stations in the biggest markets in the country for over 15 years winning a regional  Edward R. Murrow Award in 2007. In addition to his work at WAMU, Martin works at the Associated Press as a radio correspondent in both the New York and D.C. bureaus.  His resume also includes stints as a street reporter at WCBS 880 and ESPN Radio in New York. He graduated Ithaca College in 1997 with a bachelors degree in TV/Radio production, concentration in audio production.

ALEX GOLDMARK is a reporter and senior producer for Transportation Nation/WNYC. He covers high speed rail, electric vehicles and other auto innovations, bike and pedestrian issues and a bit of aviation too. He is also a Contributing Editor to GOOD magazine and an adjunct faculty member of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. His radio reporting can be heard occasionally on Marketplace, WNYC and other public radio programs. He’s on Twitter here.

KATE HINDS is a reporter/producer for Transportation Nation. She produced the TN documentary “Back of the Bus: Mass Transit, Race and Inequality.” Kate has also reported for WNYC on stories ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge rehab to bike lanes to New York City’s bees, and her photographs are regularly featured on the websites of WNYC and TN. She is also the producer of “Shifting Gears: The Retooling of the American Auto Industry,” a multi-station collaboration distributed by PRX. She has also worked as a producer for The Brian Lehrer Show. She lives with her family on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Follow her on Twitter here.

CASEY MINER is a reporter and producer based in Oakland, California. Before beginning work as KALW public radio’s resident transportation geek, she reported for the station on stories ranging from heartbroken penguins to northern California’s citizen militia. An alum of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, her work has appeared in print and online for Mother Jones, Ode, Terrain, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal. Her favorite activity is regaling her friends with tales of bizarre behavior observed on the bus.

JIM O’GRADY is the transportation reporter at WNYC radio and a contributor to Transportation Nation. He has worked as a reporter at The New York Times, professor of journalism at NYU and research director at The Center for an Urban Future, a policy think tank. In his spare time, he tells stories at The Moth. His stories have been featured on The Moth’s national podcast and This American Life.

A recent transplant to the Sunshine State MATTHEW PEDDIE grew up in New Zealand and studied journalism at the University of Western Ontario. After graduating with an MA in Journalism he returned to Christchurch, working as a reporter for Radio Live and Radio New Zealand. He’s reported live from the scene of earthquakes, criminal trials and rugby matches, and his work has taken him as far south as Scott Base Antarctica. Matthew covers general news and transportation issues in Central Florida for WMFE  FM in Orlando.

JACKIE YAMANAKA is the News Director and Assistant General Manager at Yellowstone Public Radio. She’s been at the Billings-based station since 1986. Among her duties: state house reporter during the Montana Legislature, covering a variety of news stories across Montana and Wyoming, talk-show host, fill-in news anchor, producer and editor. Jackie’s won numerous awards for her reporting, including from: The Society of Professional Journalists, Public Radio News Directors, Inc., The Montana Broadcasters Association, and the Montana AP Broadcasters Association.

TODD ZWILLICH is Washington correspondent for The Takeaway. He’s covered Congress for over a dozen years, the last five on public radio. Todd makes his home in the U.S. Senate, and from that perch he keeps a close eye on both sides of the Capitol as well as the White House. He’s been with the Takeaway since it first came on the air in 2008 years ago. Todd also covers science and medicine issues. His work has appeared in such publications as The Lancet, and Science. Follow him on Twitter here.

Transportation Nation is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.