Alexandra Byrum joined the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) in April 2011. Alexandra leads CCE communications efforts and manages community relationships, educational programs, and Wilton Companies Gallery exhibitions.

Before joining the CCE, she was a museum educator at the Chrysler Museum of Art and taught the history of photography at Old Dominion University and Tidewater Community College’s Visual Arts Center. Previously, she served as associate marketing manager at the Smithsonian Institution during the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian and the reopening of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery.

She holds a B.A. with honors in English from the University of the South and an M.A. in art and museum studies from Georgetown University.