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Former projects
Progress in South Orange, New Jersey
While mayor (From 2011-2015), South Orange saw four years of the lowest tax increases in over fifteen, hundreds of millions of dollars in investment, especially in the downtown, three years of debt reduction, four years of crime reduction, increased commitment to sustainability, better use of technology and more support for the arts. Most important, all done with a civic space now compromised of constructive, collaborative leadership and an informed, engaged public actively involved in shaping the future of the community.
Check out our progress in South Orange to learn more.
Inspiring and supporting a new generation of leaders
With Rethink Leadership, Alex and the Veracity team helped connect young elected officials from around the country to eachother. Figuring out what exists that motivates and demotivates people from entering our civic space is critical to understanding how best to move forward.Alex also serves on the advisory board of New Leader's Council New Jersey and is a James Madison Fellow at the Millennial Action Project. Alex has spoken to hundreds of commnity groups, classes, schools and organizations around the world about leadership, governance and technology. Contact him to have him participate at your next panel, workshop or event.
Check out for more on Rethink Leadership to learn more.
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Empowering innovation through Veracity Media
I founded Veracity Media to help support those trying to make the world and their communities a better place. In only a couple short years, we grew our scrappy to a major player in the political digital arena. We helped fight for access to affordable higher education, better veteran benefits, more women in elected office, more independents in our government, and much more.
Check out what they're up to: veracitymedia.com to learn more.
Current projects
Researching: Art of Governance
A curated blog documenting, discussing and shedding light on various topics, news and ideas that I come across in my work and studies to better understand how to create more sustainable , equitable and effective governance structures.
Consulting: Civic Tech and Data Consultant with Living Cities
I am managing the implementation of a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to Living Cities to help better connect low-income communities to their city governments using technology in partnership with Code for America and NNIP from the Urban Institute. Cities (and local government generally) are an amazing laboratory for experimenting with how to best fix government, and I’m pretty pumped about taking my time from being in elected office and my prior company to help innovate how cities and communities govern and solve problems.
Consulting: Program Director with Run For America
Working with Run for America to research, iterate and implement a program to help inspire, provide support for and ultimately make more accessible running for office, most notably at the Congressional level in the US.
Teaching: Strategic Management for Good Governance
With Dr. Matt Hale, we're expanding the scope of experimenting with new ways that an MPA education can prepare students not just for jobs in the public sector, but to be critical stewards of the public sector.
Researching: How to ?
A theoretical and technical analysis into generating, structuring and making accessible more usable knowledge.