Alex Eichenstein was a reporting intern for Civil Beat. She recently earned her master’s degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Previously, Alex worked as an audience engagement and social media producer at the Center for Public Integrity. At Public Integrity, she wrote investigative articles about eviction during the pandemic, a shareable flier and resource guide on Medicaid expansion and “Gentrified Identified,” a pop-up newsletter series on gentrification in Washington, D.C. She also created a survey to crowdsource low-income renters’ experiences during the pandemic and wrote a viral Twitter thread on the release of documents related to President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

As Protocol’s social media editor, Alex worked to grow the newsroom’s social presence on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Additionally, she started the organization’s Reddit account to engage with dedicated, hyper specific communities.

Alex is a native New Yorker and earned her bachelor’s degree in English, political science and women and gender studies from the University of Delaware. There, she worked as a writing tutor at the university writing center and served as the editorial editor of The Review, the university’s weekly student-run newspaper. Upon graduating, she was awarded the English department’s Margaret Lynam Tindall Memorial Prize in English Literature and the political science department’s Robert Barrie Ulin Award.

Alex is hopelessly addicted to television and her favorite movie is “The Devil Wears Prada.” You can email her with tips at aeichenstein@civilbeat.org or find her on Twitter.