ABOUT ALEXANDER
Alexander is host of The Open Mind on PBS. He has covered American politics, civic life and Millennials since the 2008 presidential campaign. His work has been profiled in Mediaite, Raw Story, The Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Variety, Medium, and on NBC News, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, CNN, ABC and the BBC, among other media outlets.
His writing has appeared in USA TODAY, WIRED, TIME, Daily Beast, Cognoscenti, RealClearPolitics, The Des Moines Register, New York Daily News, NYT's Room for Debate, Boston Globe and Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications. He is coauthor of the best-selling A Documentary History of the United States (Penguin, 2018), and recipient of the 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.
He has lectured at the Newseum, National Constitution Center, Museum of American Finance, FDR Library and Museum, Initiative for Truth at University of Sydney, Center for Information and Bubble Studies at University of Copenhagen, Department of Writing and Rhetoric at University of Mississippi, Civil Discourse Lab at the University of New Hampshire, Institute on Constitutional Democracy at University of Missouri, Center for Constitutional Democracy at Marshall University, Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State, Clarke Forum at Dickinson College, Calhoun Honors College at Clemson University, Alpha Seminar at Carroll College, among other institutions of learning.
A native New Yorker, he is a graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Harvard.
