Andrea McCarren

Andrea McCarren is a television journalist and educator.

Education and private life After attending Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, McCarren attended the London School of Economics. She earned an anthropology degree, cum laude. Thereafter, she attended graduate school at the University of Southern California School of Journalism on a KCBS-TV Fellowship. until economic downturns in 2009 led the station to terminate her employment with 25 other staff members.

McCarren is also an educator. The first teacher of broadcast journalism at Harvard University, she taught a curriculum of her own design.

Among other honors, McCarren is the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award and the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard.

Andrea McCarren has been promoted to PenFed Foundation President and Senior Vice President for PenFed Digital. She is a nationally known advocate for veterans and military families.