Alexandra is a Communications and Advocacy Associate passionate about health systems equity, maternal health, and narratives of illness. Prior to GHS, Alexandra implemented a research project for the Massachusetts School-Based Health Alliance and interned at WorldCare International in clinical operations. She also worked as an EMT in Bolton, Massachusetts and interned at the Bennington Free Clinic in Bennington, Vermont.
Alexandra graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in English and Chemistry with a concentration in Public Health and the University of Cambridge with an MPhil in Health, Medicine, and Society. Her undergraduate English thesis focused on Virginia Woolf’s representation of illness in her modernist novels, and her graduate dissertation utilized testimonies of women affected by forced sterilizations in Peru in the late 1990s.