Andrea Cross

Andrea is the Engagement Manager at PAI. She has over twenty years of experience in journalism, storytelling, and media production. Before joining PAI she led the content development, production, and publication at the media company Reinvent and helped present in-depth conversations with thought leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, civic leaders and other innovators about how to solve the many challenges of our time.

Andrea spent ten years in various roles at the acclaimed PBS science documentary series NOVA and received a Peabody Award for her work on the three-hour NOVA miniseries The Elegant Universe, hosted by physicist Brian Greene. She also was part of the executive team of the spin-off magazine series NOVA ScienceNOW as its first Supervising Producer. She helped launch and expand multimedia efforts at the George Lucas Educational Foundation and the California Academy of Sciences. Andrea lived in Germany for seven years where she collaborated on various international film projects. Along with her husband, she is the co-author of a German book explaining the science behind 100 myths about conception, pregnancy & birth.

Andrea lives in San Francisco and is grateful she can bike to the Partnership on AI offices and enjoy the year-round temperate Bay Area climate.