Alex is a partner with Bellwether in the Strategic Advising practice area. Alex has 20 years of experience working in education and social change as a consultant, a school operator, and in philanthropy. He has deep expertise in helping organizations scale a combination of their Direct Impact by serving beneficiaries; their Widespread Impact by building the capacity of partners to replicate their model; and their Systemic Impact by shifting mindsets, relationships, and power to in turn shift policies, practices, and resource flows. His clients at Bellwether have included organizations providing workforce programming, postsecondary advising organizations, philanthropies, charter schools, place-based education program and advocacy organizations, and after-school program providers.

While at Bellwether, Alex has published on how to create more equitable and effective postsecondary pathways, how organizations can scale through Direct, Widespread, and Systemic Impact, how parent power organizations scale, and a report on Teacher Apprenticeship Degrees.

Before joining Bellwether, Alex was a managing partner with New Profit, where he focused on funding and advising nonprofits growing their impact in K-12, postsecondary pathways, and parent power and systems change. Alex formerly served as a regional director of growth and sustainability at the KIPP Foundation and as chief of staff, strategy, and execution with KIPP Houston Public Schools. He began his career in for-profit consulting and then nonprofit consulting as a manager with The Bridgespan Group, where he worked on projects related to K-12 and higher education innovations, youth and adult workforce development, philanthropy, the environment, and aging.

Alex serves on the board of Saga Education (a high-impact tutoring organization) and serves his community as a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Higher Education. He has a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and an MPA and an MBA with honors from Harvard University. Raised in New Orleans, Alex currently resides in Brookline, Massachusetts.