Alex Keivahn Smith

Senior Program Director

Whether applying theology or data analysis to address our community’s challenges, Alex is passionate about building relationships and driving real change. He started his career in operations and strategy where he helped a national industrial supplies distributor find creative solutions to tough problems—from moving material across warehouses to motivating underperforming teams. Seeking to expand his quantitative skills, Alex spent his evenings studying data structures and the algorithms that make sense of them. While finding this work intellectually engaging, he grew increasingly frustrated with the disconnect between his work and his faith. Alex left the corporate world to spend three years studying theology and grappling with how to put his faith into practice. While at seminary, he spent his summers working as a hospital chaplain and a product manager for a tech start-up. At CPA, Alex combines his commitment to his faith with his professional experience to help strengthen our core community institutions. 

Alex holds a master’s from Yale (Divinity), a master’s from UC Berkeley (Data Science), and a bachelor's from Princeton (Near Eastern Studies).