ABOUT ALEXANDER
Alexander is host of The Open Mind on PBS, creator of Breaking Bread with Alexander on Bloomberg TV, and coauthor of bestselling A Documentary History of the United States by Penguin. He has covered culture, politics, and civic life since 2008.
He is recipient of Johns Hopkins University’s Agora Institute Fellowship, University of Denver’s Anvil of Freedom Award, Franklin Pierce University’s Fitzwater Medallion for Leadership in Public Communication, and Yale University’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. His work is chronicled in The Guardian, Deadline Hollywood, Harvard Magazine, People Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Hill, The Wrap, Mediaite, The Washington Post, The Des Moines Register, Variety, Medium, and on C-SPAN, MS NOW, NPR, CNN, ABC and the BBC. His writing appears in The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, USA TODAY, WIRED, TIME, NYT's Room for Debate, The Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications.
He has lectured at Planet Word Museum, Santa Fe Public Library, Alabama Humanities Alliance, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, FDR Presidential Library & Museum, The College of Charleston, Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability at The Ohio State University, The American University in Cairo, Initiative for Truth at University of Sydney, Center for Information and Bubble Studies at University of Copenhagen, Institute on Constitutional Democracy at University of Missouri, Civil Discourse Lab at the University of New Hampshire, Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State, Clarke Forum at Dickinson College, and Alpha Seminar at Carroll College, among other institutions of learning.
