Alexandra is is an applied behavioral scientist, gender-based violence practitioner, and Latina. She has over 12 years of experience working closely with governments and innovation teams around the world to apply behavioral insights, human-centered design (HCD), tech solutions, and iterative testing to drive behavioral change and social impact. Ale focuses on challenging contexts and complex issues, including reducing violence against women and children, enhancing the delivery of services in humanitarian settings, and combating corruption.
Her work on gender-based violence covers both the response and prevention fields, from designing small tweaks to existing programs — aimed at improving uptake, implementation fidelity, or cost-effectiveness — to building new programs based on evidence and user testing. This includes process improvements to reduce the dropout rate of women defendants in judicial process, crafting calls to action that help overcome documented challenges faced by survivors and bystanders to seek or offer help respectively, and effective programs to help young women navigate unhealthy relationships and prevent abuse. Ale co-facilitates a Community of Practice on Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence, hosted by SVRI, and advocates for innovation in the GBV prevention space. She holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
