Alex was born in Mansfield, Ohio. She earned a B.A. in anthropology from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. There, she was awarded grants for her photo-ethnography La Vida Callejera, developed during her enrollment at the School for International Training in Granada, Spain. She traveled to the Gulf Coast twice in the fall following Hurricane Katrina and contributed photographs from these trips to the UNICEF benefit exhibition Waves of Devastation, Waves of Hope. In the spring of 2006, she went on to pursue photography in a graduate program at the Salt Institute of Documentary Studies, Portland, Maine.
Now based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Alex has freelanced for GOOD online, vanityfair.com, NPR, New York magazine, Jane magazine, the Village Voice, wmagazine.com and other great media sources, working towards a career in multimedia journalism.
