Prior to joining Cardus, she was the Executive Director at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada where she wrote and spoke about marriage, child care, women's issues and how family life affects the economy, and vice versa. She is the author of a number of influential pieces including Private Choices, Public Costs: How Failing Families Cost Us All about the national public costs of family breakdown, and The Cost of a Free Lunch: The Real Costs of the Pascal Early Learning Plan for Ontario.

Her opinion pieces have appeared in the National Post, Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette, Toronto Sun and the Ottawa Citizen, among others, and she's frequently a guest on TV and radio shows across Canada.

Born in Toronto, Andrea has a Master of Arts in History from the University of Toronto.

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