Hi, I'm Alex 

I’m a Detroit-based freelance reporter and student covering local government, education, and urban history. My work has appeared in Chalkbeat Detroit, Outlier Media, Bridge Detroit, Business Insider, and The South End. I've been covering Detroit city meetings for Detroit Documenters for nearly three years and I'm currently a Docu-Mentor. 

My work with Streetlight Detroit, Outlier Media's former public safety and policing newsletter, gained recognition from the Poynter Institute's Local Edition and Harvard's Nieman Lab. In 2024, I spoke about my article reviewing Detroit's history of police political surveillance units on Michigan Public's Stateside radio show. I was also featured in Documenting the Documenters, where I spoke about my work in the Detroit Documenters program (see below). 

I’m currently pursing a degree in urban studies and public history at Wayne State University and will graduate in spring 2025. 

I am a member of:

• Investigative Reporters and Editors

• Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting

• Education Writers Association

In March 2024, I was featured in Documenting the Documenters, a short film about the Detroit Documenters program.