As a Senior Design Director, Alex builds interdisciplinary teams, sets the creative vision and theory of change, defines systems-level strategies, and strengthens partnerships with local collaborators.

Prior to IDEO.org, Alex spent 4 years at IDEO leading the Global Equity portfolio (education, health, financial inclusion) for their open innovation practice. She designed programs focused on refugee inclusion services, vaccine immunization and racial equity in education with clients like the Gates Foundation, USAID, IDB, Imaginable Futures and GAVI. Her work at IDEO has been recognized by Fast Company and Forbes. 

Alex holds a bachelor in international relations and masters in International Policy & Media Studies from Stanford University, where she focused on African Studies and wrote a thesis on the influences of technology within the continent’s education sector. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University. 

She is the proud daughter of a first generation Cameroonian father and an Irish-American mother. Please ask her more about: mental health awareness and advocacy, modern dance, science fiction (all mediums!), and growing up in the Republic of the Congo.