Her hope is that by bringing these stories to light

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Alexander is energized by her fellow philanthropists’ responses to the federal funding cuts and elimination of DEI programs. “As much as this is a challenging time, it's actually a very powerful time in philanthropy, because people are coming together,” she says.

people will begin to appreciate that American life is made richer by the differences of its varied communities. “How do we emphasize and support… the critical thinking that allows people to learn and understand that you can tell more than one story at a time?” she asks. “That allows people to ask the questions of how power works and what has been included and what has not been included, and how we can tell and uphold all of our history.”

Though her day-to-day focus can vary, Alexander sees her c level contact list books, her scholarship, and her administrative and grant-making work as all of a piece. What has surprised her about philanthropy is how sweeping its effects can be: teachers’ work lives on in their students, writers’ work lives on in the minds and lives of their readers, but philanthropists’ work has visible ripple effects for generations.

“The reach of the work that people are doing is infinite,” she says.We and our partners store and/or access information on a device, such as unique IDs in cookies to process personal data. You may accept or manage your choices by clicking below, including your right to object where legitimate interest is used, or at any time in the privacy policy page. These choices will be signaled to our partners and will not affect browsing data.



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