Alex Johnston

Alex Johnston is CEO of ConnCAN. As ConnCAN's first employee, Alex was responsible for launching the organization and currently leads its effort to bring parents, educators, businesspeople, public servants and community leaders together in a common effort to make great public schools available to every child in Connecticut. He previously served as director of operations at the New Haven Housing Authority, working as a member of the management team tasked with turning the agency around from the brink of receivership. A graduate of Harvard University, he studied at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship and received a D.Phil. in politics from Oxford's Lincoln College, where he studied the impact of government funding on non-profit service providers.