Erica Hellerstein is an award-winning journalist and a senior reporter with the global newsroom Coda Story, where she covers authoritarian technology, disinformation, the war on science, revisionist history, and more. She is Coda's first U.S.-based reporter and has spent nearly a decade covering politics and human rights in the U.S. and abroad. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, ELLE, Marie Claire, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Jose Mercury News, and The Lily, among other publications.

As Americans battles over how to teach the country’s history, Erica will travel to Berlin and ask  what Americans can learn from Germany’s  Vergangenheitsbewältigung, and what its limitations are.