Alex Russell covers the College's departments, centers and programs in many of the social sciences, including: Cognitive Science, Communication, Economics, History, International Relations, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, the Center for Mind and Brain, the Center for Poverty and Inequality Research and the Global Migration Center.

Russell has spent more than 10 years at UC Davis communicating social sciences research for uptake and impact through news and feature stories, policy briefs, reports, social media campaigns and other forms. He has served as a writer at the Graduate School of Management and led communications for the Center for Poverty and Inequality Research and the Institute for Social Sciences. Immediately prior to joining the College of Letters and Science, he served as communications lead for a major federally funded research program in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences focused on international food security.

He received a bachelor's degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz and a master's degree in English from the UC Davis Graduate Creative Writing Program. He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW).