Raised in the south suburbs of Chicago, Alexandria received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Visual Studies with a concentration in photography from the University of Missouri-Columbia and did graduate work in African American Studies at UCLA. Passionate about the art of the Black diaspora, Alexandria has been a researcher for the Hollywood Diversity Report, taught classes on Black Horror and Afrofuturism, facilitated poetry workshops, book clubs, and film screenings, and worked with K through higher ed. Alexandria is an alumni of the LA Review of Books Publishing workshop and interned with Third World Press the oldest continuously operating Black publishing house located in Chatham, Chicago. Alexandria is the proprietress of SOUiL (@souilchicago) a concept pop-up bookstore featuring Black and POC authors/artists and hopes to bring a printing press/publishing house, an independent library, a movie theater, and free art workshop space and cafe to the South & or West side of Chicago.