This week on Everything Co-op, Alex Smith highlights the Community Purchasing Alliance

Alex Smith is Senior Program Director at the Community Purchasing Alliance.

Tune into WOL 1450 AM, 95.9 FM, and the WOL Livestream on December 12 at at 10:30 a.m. EST for Everything Co-op, hosted by Vernon Oakes. The program will continue to highlight selections from its 2024 holiday list.

This week's episode features an interview with Alex Keivahn Smith, the Senior Program Director at the Community Purchasing Alliance (CPA). They will explore how 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, he pursued theological studies and practical experiences as a hospital chaplain and tech startup product manager. Now at CPA, Alex integrates his faith and professional expertise to support community institutions. Alex holds a master's degree from Yale (Divinity), a master's degree from UC Berkeley (Data Science), and a bachelor's degree from Princeton (Near Eastern Studies).

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