Alex is a Project Engineer with 10 years of experience in environmental engineering with a focus on water and sanitation infrastructure in underserved communities. She came to OHM Advisors to continue her commitment to advancing communities and has been the lead modeler for stormwater, drinking water, and wastewater collection system projects in Ohio and Michigan.

Alex previously lived in northeast Arizona, serving the Hopi Tribe as an environmental engineer for the United States Indian Health Service for three years. Her role in planning, designing, and implementing projects to increase sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation services also required working with and adapting to the needs and abilities of the Hopi Tribal government, the leadership of the twelve Hopi Villages, and the eight Hopi Village utilities. Understanding the perspectives, priorities, and cultural contexts of the Hopi community was the key to successful collaboration with community leaders and utility operators. She began her career as an Environmental Health Volunteer for the United States Peace Corps in a rural community in Panama, where she provided technical planning and design while training, supporting, and facilitating community leaders and institutions to be the owners and managers of their water and sanitation systems. These roles helped Alex develop the community-centered perspective that now drives her work in Northeast Ohio.

As a systems thinker, Alex is always looking at the bigger picture in any project she tackles. This allows her to connect her technical skills modeling, analyzing, and interpreting water and sanitation systems to the greater community context and, most importantly, to the people that those systems serve.