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Alex Love
Alex Love
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Alex Love

Levelset

Brooklyn, NY USA

"If I could give anything that lives beyond me, it’s for folks to be more thoughtful about other people that have different experiences across the gamut. We are more alike than we are different."

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Alex's work combines: Business, Entrepreneurship, and Helping People

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Day In The Life

Collaborator

I help employers become more inclusive through fair chance hiring and DEI consulting.

Skills & Education

Advice for getting started

Back when I started an apprenticeship program at VICE Media to hire formerly incarcerated individuals, there didn't seem to be much conversation around it. People didn't understand what that was all about or why I would be doing that. Fortunately, there is a lot more attention around fair chance hiring and DEI now. The more we talk about it, the more people get involved. And the more that people are involved, the more that noise is replaced by empathy and action.

Here's the path I took:

  • High School

  • Bachelor's Degree

    Sociocultural Anthropology

    New York University

Life & Career Milestones

My path in life has been direct

  • 1.

    I grew up in a military town in Southern California, which was great because I grew up around a lot of diversity.

  • 2.

    I went to New York University for college and earned my undergraduate degree in sociocultural anthropology.

  • 3.

    After graduating, I started working in human resources.

  • 4.

    While working in human resources for VICE Media, I launched an apprenticeship program to specifically hire formerly incarcerated individuals.

  • 5.

    After I left VICE Media, I started my consultancy, Alex Love Consulting, which is focused on human resources and diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting.

  • 6.

    I’m also a partner at Levelset, which is a collective of people that focus on fair chance hiring—we help employers be more inclusive by changing policies and procedures and setting up pilot programs.

Defining Moments

How I responded to discouragement

  • THE NOISE

    Messages from Society in general:

    You work with who?! Hiring formerly incarcerated people? What is that?

  • How I responded:

    Back when I started an apprenticeship program at VICE Media to hire formerly incarcerated individuals, there didn't seem to be much conversation around it. People didn't understand what that was all about or why I would be doing that. Fortunately, there is a lot more attention around fair chance hiring and DEI now. The more we talk about it, the more people get involved. And the more that people are involved, the more that noise is replaced by empathy and action.