Alex J. Rouhandeh

Sen. Alex J. Rouhandeh is a Master of Arts student within the politics concentration program at the Columbia Journalism School. On the University Senate, Alex serves on the Student Affairs Committee and on the External Relations and Research Policy Committee. Additionally, he serves as a special correspondent for Newsweek. Before coming to Columbia, Alex worked as Newsweek’s congressional correspondent and was selected as one of the National Press Foundation’s 2024 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellows. His writing has also appeared in The American Prospect, Vice News, and a number of regional publications. Alex graduated as a Remembrance Scholar at Syracuse University where he majored in magazine journalism through the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and both policy studies and citizenship & civic engagement through the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs. At Syracuse, Alex represented the undergraduate student community as a university senator.