Alexandra Chewning graduated with a B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from the University of Arizona, where she worked as a research assistant for the Applied Behavioral Health Policy Division and the Department of Psychology. In Arizona, she became interested in child welfare while volunteering with the children of a local child crisis center. Alex's interest in child development and international work led her to serve as a Youth Development Volunteer with the Peace Corps in Honduras. There, she spent two years working with street children, vulnerable youth, and their families. 

Alex is currently a graduate student in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University and a Research Assistant with the Massachusetts Healthy Families Evaluation. Her research interests include contextual risk factors in children's lives, especially poverty and maltreatment, and the promotion of resiliency and positive parenting in the face of such risk. She is also interested in social and international policy affecting children.