ABOUT ANDREA

My name is Andrea Chalupa , and I’m a journalist and producer in New York. My mother and father were born in displaced persons camps in 1945 Europe. The hellish machine of the Soviet Union that their parents escaped has been my major preoccupation for the last decade, leading me to discover a priceless “gift” from Orwell in our family. This is the subject of a lecture I gave at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that I expanded into an Amazon single called Orwell and the Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm, with a beautiful cover illustrated by Molly Crabapple. A screenplay I wrote inspired by my grandfather’s Soviet memoir and this little known history of Orwell and the refugees is currently in development in Europe.

I’m a longtime contributor to the Huffington Post, and I helped launch online video for Condé Nast Portfolio and AOL Money & Finance. I regularly reported on-camera for these outlets, and covered the presidential conventions, the Sundance Film Festival, and Ford Motor Company’s Scientific Research Laboratory. For the Huffington Post, I write about business, entertainment, and politics.  After graduating from the University of California at Davis with high honors in History, I worked as a community organizer in the 2004 presidential election, wrote for the Portland Mercury in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Kyiv, Ukraine where I auditioned to be a national news anchor.

Since marrying a Parisian, I’ve been expanding my waistline and knowledge of wines, cheeses, and purees, and I’m learning French by reading a page of Le Petit Prince every night…dans mes rêves! This classic French children’s book was the theme of our wedding in Miami.