Alexandra Bernadotte
Associate Partner
Alexandra Bernadotte
Alexandra Bernadotte is an Associate Partner in NewSchools Venture Fund’s West Coast office, where she oversees the firm’s efforts to build community and share knowledge between its entrepreneurs. She also guides the organization's work around ways in which charter management organizations and other educational institutions can better prepare students to not only attend college, but to persist and graduate.
Alex has more than 12 years of executive management and strategic development experience in both the nonprofit and private sectors. Her previous professional experience includes serving as Executive Director of Princeton Review's Silicon Valley office, co-founder and Vice President of Marketing and Online Strategy at educational travel startup Explorica, Inc., and Operations Manager at the World Health Organization, where she coordinated the efforts of an international youth substance abuse prevention foundation. Most recently, Alex was the Vice President of Business Development and Interim Executive Director at Foundation for a College Education (FCE), a nonprofit in East Palo Alto, California whose mission is to increase the number of under-represented students who enroll in and graduate from college. She is currently a volunteer mentor for a group of FCE college students and is President of the FCE Board of Directors.
Alex received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and earned a master’s degree in Education with a concentration in Policy and Organizational Leadership from Stanford University.