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Alexandra Smith
Chief Strategy Officer, The 19th*
English
United States
Alexandra Smith leads organization-wide strategy at The 19th, leveraging data to make audience-informed decisions across editorial, product and revenue initiatives. Before joining the nonprofit, she led audience growth and engagement strategies at the startup WhereBy.Us and at local newspapers in Colorado and New Jersey. In 2020, she completed the Sulzberger fellowship at Columbia University where she honed her design thinking skills. In 2018, she completed a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University where she studied how to use in-person events to grow community engagement. She is a proud Rutgers grad, currently living in Colorado.