Alex grun  
external relations manager

Alex Grun is a graduate of Northeastern University. While at Northeastern, he worked as a Financial Control Analyst at the TJX Companies and worked on the Government Relations andCorporate Responsibility team at John Hancock.

Before joining the Public Finance Initiative, Alex worked as the Field Director for a City Council Race in Brooklyn, NYC, building upon his careerworking on Presidential and Senate races across the United States. Alex has been with the Public Finance Initiative for over three years. In his time there, he has had the opportunity to support various educational programming activities and technical assistance programs, with the goal of supporting communities looking to center various equity and racial equity principles across different forms of Public Finance.

Alex has also supported the development of educational reading material in the form of frameworks and blogs, while also helping in the creation of a Scorecard designed to help communities document and self-assess potential racial equity impacts of a bond issuance.