The program will continue to highlight choices from its 2024 Holiday list. The upcoming episode will include an interview with Alex Keivahn Smith, the Senior Program Director at the Community Purchasing Alliance (CPA). They will explore how the CPA utilizes the collective purchasing power of community institutions to foster sustainability, equity, and justice.
Alex’s professional journey reflects his passion for building relationships and driving change. He began in operations and strategy, solving complex problems for a national distributor. To enhance his quantitative skills, he studied data structures and algorithms. However, feeling a disconnect between his work and faith, Ahe pursued theological studies and practical experiences as a hospital chaplain and tech start-up product manager. Now at CPA, Alex integrates his faith and professional expertise to support community institutions. Alex holds a master’s from Yale (Divinity), a master’s from UC Berkeley (Data Science), and a bachelor’s from Princeton (Near Eastern Studies).
