Board of Advisors
Jeremy Scott Alexander was a White House Intern in 1998 for the Office of Political Affairs. He was then hired by The White House in the Office of Presidential Personnel. In 1999, Mr. Alexander was appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Department of Energy as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Energy. During that same year, he was hired to work on the Gore 2000 Campaign as a Field Coordinator in Waterloo, Iowa. Mr. Alexander returned home to Chicago, Illinois at the end of the Clinton Administration and worked for the City of Chicago from 2001 through 2002. From 2003 to 2005, Jeremy was employed by the Chicago Public Schools and was the President of the Lunch Bunch Political Action Committee. In 2005, he returned to Washington, D.C. to work for Georgetown University for a brief period in the Office of Development in the School of Foreign Service. Soon after, he and his wife, Leslie, moved to Dubai, U.A.E. for her work as an engineer.
Upon returning to the U.S.A., Jeremy was hired by the National Court Reporters Association in Vienna, VA from 2006 to 2009 as a Government Relations Specialist. There he fought for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, appropriations for court reporting schools, and organized State Leadership Conferences and Hill Days for the association. Jeremy currently works for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund as the Director of Government Affairs, after working on the Hill with U.S. Representative Clarke (NY-11th Congressional District, Brooklyn, NY) as her Scheduler from 2009 to 2010. He has a B.A. from Grinnell College (Grinnell, Iowa) in Anthropology, attended the University of London King’s College (London, England) for British Politics and Public Policy, and has a M.A. from DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois) in Medical Anthropology/Public Policy.
