Elizabeth Bernstein

Elizabeth Bernstein has spent twenty-five years as a reporter and columnist at The Wall Street Journal, where she has covered topics such higher education, philanthropy, mental health, and religion. During that time, she’s also been an investigative reporter on several high-profile projects and written two different columns. For the past fifteen years, she has written the popular “Bonds: On Relationships” column, which explores social psychology, or how we best relate to ourselves and to others. Each week, she sorts through the very best relationship research, and talks to the nation’s top experts, to guide readers through the stickiest of interpersonal problems about topics as varied as sex, sleep, communication, arguing, awe and many more. She’s a decorated journalist—winning awards and being nominated for three solo Pulitzer Prizes—and has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English from Indiana University and a master’s degree with honors from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. She has completed a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT and a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. She lives in Miami with her rescue dog Scout and is an avid sailor, scuba diver, reader, and people lover.