[2][3][4] Bertrand attended Vassar College and the London School of Economics, where she double-majored in political science and philosophy and graduated in 2014.
[2][5][6] Bertrand began her career at Business Insider as an intern in 2014 before being appointed as a political correspondent mainly covering US foreign policy and national security.
[8] Bertrand joined The Atlantic as a staff writer in February 2018;[7] shortly thereafter, was named a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
[14] Bertrand broke the story that more than 50 CIA officials signed a letter stating their opinion that emails purportedly written by Hunter Biden "had all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.
[citation needed] On September 27, 2023, Bertrand and her team won an Emmy for their breaking news coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.