Alexa Fairchild’s professional life at the Brooklyn Museum is dedicated to providing relevant and creative programs and services that empower K – 12 students and teachers to make connections through art. She is equally committed to contributing to the field of the museum education at large, as evident by seven years of service on the New York City Museum Educators Roundtable (NYCMER) Board of Trustees. Alexa has worked at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (U.B.C.) in her hometown of Vancouver, Canada; Lower East Side Tenement Museum; and Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. Her graduate degrees are from Bank Street College of Education (M.S. in Ed.) and U.B.C. (M.A. in Art History).

Board member since: 2013

Current positions: Member of the Reader Engagement Action Team, Team Liaison