For the past 40 years, Alex has pursued her passion for working with people striving together to create transformative life experiences for themselves and for others. Whether as an educator, administrator, organization development consultant, or volunteer, she has been dedicated to helping people discover what they are capable of, and experiencing what can be possible when they strive together with compassion and creativity.

Both Alex’s undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota, and graduate work at Harvard were in International Relations, with a focus on sustainable development through collaborative and experiential learning, design, and innovation.

Alex began her career as a wilderness-based experiential educator working with the Colorado and Voyageur Outward Bound Schools, and with Wilderness Inquiry where she taught and facilitated groups of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. She also worked as an organization development consultant and program designer with non-profit, school, and corporate clients over the past 30 years. Throughout her professional career and academic work, her passion and conviction has been grounded in the observations that we are all capable of doing much more than we think we can when we support each other while trying new and sometimes challenging learning experiences--whether hiking in the mountains, paddling on a river, running a team of sled dogs, or working with a horse.

Alex moved to Vermont in 1998 after working as a consultant in Indonesia. She had learned about adaptive riding from an Outward Bound colleague many years ago, and looked forward to volunteering at High Horses after retiring as Administrative Director of the Upper Valley Waldorf School in Quechee, VT. She began volunteering at High Horses in 2019 and joined the Board in 2020. Alex was hired as Executive Director in February 2023. Her passion for horses began with pony club as a child, eventing as a teenager, and finding the occasional horse to ride in exotic places. Working in a barn full of horses every day in collaboration with and service to our clients is a dream come true.