Alexandra is a reporter for Politico covering the intersection of technology and politics. She is the author of the popular daily newsletter Morning Tech and a lead author of Future Pulse, focusing on how innovations in tech are shaping health care.
She has discussed her work on-air for CNBC, CBS, CSPAN, Cheddar and BBC.
She is also on faculty at The School of the New York Times, where she taught a government, law and ethics course in 2020 on facial recognition technology.
Until 2019, Alexandra was a staff columnist at The New York Times, where her writing has been featured on the front page; her work has also appeared on the covers of the Style section, The Village Voice and The Forward. She was the recipient of the 2018 Front Page Award for Local Reporting for her work on The Times's Metro desk.
She received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor of arts in English from the University of Pennsylvania.
She is an alumna of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics.