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 American culture, politics, and civic life since the 2008 presidential campaign.
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 Harvard Magazine, Deadline Hollywood, The Christian Science Monitor, The Hill, The Wrap, Mediaite, The Washington Post, The Des Moines Register, Variety, Medium, and on MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, CNN, ABC and the BBC. His writing appears in USA TODAY, WIRED, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, NYT's Room for Debate, Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications.
He has lectured at the Santa Fe Public Library, Alabama Humanities Alliance, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, FDR Presidential Library & Museum, The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, 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, Department of Writing and Rhetoric at University of Mississippi, Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State, Clarke Forum at Dickinson College, Center for Constitutional Democracy at Marshall University, Alpha Seminar at Carroll College, among other institutions of learning.
