Alex is currently a creative director at Blink, where she helps brands tell their stories in documentary and narrative formats, and recently completed serving as a director and producer of the documentary series Authentic Voices of Pride for LGBTQ Nation and host of Lambda Legal’s inaugural podcast, Making the Case.

Over the course of her career, Alex has served as a morning show host, interviewing presidential candidates and Oscar-winners alike, directed short documentaries about LGBTQ+ people and social issues, produced and anchored content about pop culture and trending topics, and covered issues impacting women for a range of outlets.

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In front of the camera, Alex was previously a co-host of AM to DM, a daily morning show from BuzzFeed News, where her interviews with newsmakers from pop culture fixtures to politicians regularly made headlines, a correspondent for Mic Dispatch, a documentary series for the website Mic, a host of the Elite Daily dating show Backseat Blind Date, which received over eight million views, a host and producer for the BuzzFeed video series #TheBuzz, covering entertainment and top stories, a host of the SiriusXM special series The Issues about the 2020 primaries, a co-host of the I’m From Driftwood Podcast for three seasons, and the host of The LGBTQ Nation Podcast, a weekly podcast covering topics about queer and trans people.

Alex has served in a range of producing roles, from overseeing editorial production and managing a control room, to scripting series and overseeing edits, to booking guests and coaching talent. She served as a supervising producer for AM to DM, a producer at HuffPost Live, and as an associate producer at Daily Beast, where she shot and edited videos as a one-woman band on the campaign trail and beyond.

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When not in front of a camera or on a mic, Alex writes about topics like reproductive health care, queer culture, and personal essays for outlets including NBC News, Teen Vogue and OUT Magazine. She recently wrote about the fortieth anniversary of the first recorded HIV/AIDS cases for NBC and about what it’s like returning to work after wearing affirming clothing during the pandemic for The M Dash.

As a proud queer femme, Alex has been featured on television shows and panels, and highlighted for her personal style and funky hair. Her work has received Anthem, Shorty, and Muse awards, nominated for GLAAD Media Awards, screened by NewFest, and an honoree in the Webby’s News & Politics category. She holds an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. from Cornell University. Alex lives with her wife, three cats and dog in New York City, where she recently retired from skating with Gotham Roller Derby.

For on-camera work, Alex is represented by Gersh.