ALEXANDRA O. HUDSON is passionate about the way that ideas and storytelling change people’s lives. She is an author, popular speaker, and the founder of Civic Renaissance, a publication and intellectual community dedicated to beauty, goodness and truth comprised of 50,000 intellectually curious people across the globe. A sought-after thinker and speaker, Alexandra has advised foreign governments—from The Parliament of Canada to the UK House of Lords—and is regularly heard speaking at venues such as Stanford University or Yale Law School. She was named the 2020 Novak Journalism Fellow, and contributes to CBS, PBS, C-SPAN, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TIME Magazine, POLITICO Magazine, and Newsweek. Alexandra earned a master’s degree in public policy at the London School of Economics as a Rotary Scholar, and is also the creator of a series for The Teaching Company called Storytelling and the Human Condition. Her bestselling book, The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves, was published by St. Martin’s Press, and led her on a fifty-city book tour across the globe with her husband and two small children. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her family, where they are restoring their historic, Italian Renaissance style home—a project that is an appropriate metaphor for Alexandra’s life work of reviving the wisdom and beauty of the past and melding it with the needs of the present.