Alex Krause is a research assistant in Research and Policy for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, working on the Kauffman Emerging Scholars program and assisting in the development of the entrepreneurship and education dashboards. She also assists in writing literature reviews, blogs, articles, and information briefs on Economy, policy, entrepreneurship, and education. She previously worked as the project director of Building a Community of Readers for the Kansas City Public Library. Earlier, she was an AmeriCorps VISTA for the Office of Mayor Sly James and his Turn the Page KC reading initiative and an economics analysis intern for the U.S. State Department in the U.S. Embassy in Berlin.