Alexandra Carney

Education: BA and MPP, in Racial and Economic Equity, Brandeis University

Recent projects include: CFLeads, Tisch College at Tufts University

Personal interests include: Video games, painting, photographing animals, Summers in Cape Cod, Italian food, grassroots coalition-building

Alexandra Carney is a recent graduate of The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. She has focused much of her graduate studies on using a combination of qualitative and quantitative data to inform intersectional policy changes to further equitable inclusion of historically marginalized people into the United States economy.

While continuing her graduate studies, Alexandra founded a Students for Sensible Drug Policy chapter at Brandeis University that aimed to educate undergraduate and graduate students on how they can help reduce mass incarceration for non-violent crimes and racial profiling through grassroots movements and policy change. Alexandra also worked at the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity at Brandeis University where she researched how COVID-19 impacted historically marginalized people significantly more than white people in terms of: gender, level of education, labor segregation, job protection, healthcare treatment, and race.

Alexandra holds a BA and a Master of Public Policy, in Racial and Economic Equity, from Brandeis University.