Alex is a servant-leader focused on improving the health and wholeness of people living on the margins. Board certified in healthcare management, his expertise as a nonprofit executive has
been informed by his experience addressing the social determinants of health through value-based care models, gleaning lessons on achieving health equity by looking globally, and by drawing on his faith to connect, inspire, and equip communities to be local conduits of health.

As the Executive Director of the Corner Health Center, Alex is responsible for the strategic, financial, and operational oversight of the $4M non-profit center’s mission to provide affordable, judgment-free care to 12-to-25-year-olds and their children. Before coming to the Corner, Alex served for over seven years in senior leadership roles at Henry Ford Health, on the population health and global health teams. Alex incorporates his professional background into his identity as Rev. Plum, an ordained Deacon in the United Methodist Church, pastoring on the clergy team at Birmingham and Berkley First UMCs and serving at the regional and international levels of the church in global health ministry.

Alex is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a Salzburg Global Fellow, a former Paul D. Coverdell Fellow, an Emory University Humanitarian honoree, and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Micronesia, 2008-11). He has completed graduate training in international healthcare supply chain (MBA, Wayne State), behavioral science and health education (MPH, Emory University), and deacon’s theological studies (Certificate, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary). He completed his undergraduate degree
at Michigan State’s James Madison College. Alex and his husband Jason live in Detroit with their 4-year-old Golden Retriever, Yolly.