Alex Michalko

 Alex is originally from Palo Alto, California. She received her BA in International Relations with a minor in Italian from Stanford University in 2003. After graduation, she worked as an environmental educator aboard the 90-foot schooner Adventuress in Puget Sound. She returned to San Francisco to work in brand and business development at Sony. She then began her career in land conservation at Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), where she worked for three years. During her time at POST, Alex managed the GIS mapping program and worked on land acquisition projects. After completing the first year of her joint degree MBA/MEM program at Duke, Alex worked as a summer associate at Beartooth Capital Partners, a private equity real estate fund that invests in ranches in the West.