Alejandra Campoverdi

Alejandra's national bestselling book, FIRST GEN, is the winner of the Dolores Huerta Award by the International Latino Book Awards, who also named Alejandra its 2024 Rising Star in Nonfiction. FIRST GEN is also the winner of the Martin Cruz Smith Award and was chosen by the Council for Opportunity in Education as their 2024 Opportunity Matters Book Club selection, a nationwide book club for first-generation and low-income students at colleges and universities across the country. Alejandra holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University. She served in the Obama White House as White House Deputy Director of Hispanic Media, and in 2024, Alejandra founded the First Gen Fund, a 501c3 that provides hardship grants directly to first gen students.