Lunch and Learn with Alexandra Hudson, author of “The Soul of Civility”

Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Time: 12 pm EST

Location: Zoom (Virtual) 

Alexandra O. Hudson is the author of the bestselling book The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves (St. Martin’s Press), which has catalyzed a national and international conversation about how to restore dignity, respect, and flourishing in divided times. She is the founder of Civic Renaissance, a global community of more than 50,000 readers committed to reviving beauty, goodness, and truth as resources for richer lives today.

A 2020 Novak Journalism Fellow, Alexandra’s writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, USA Today, POLITICO, Newsweek, and beyond, and she is a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CBS, PBS, C-SPAN, and Fox News. She also created Storytelling and the Human Condition; a TV series produced by The Great Courses—Netflix for lifelong learners—exploring how stories shape human flourishing.

A sought-after thinker and speaker, Alexandra has advised foreign governments—from the Parliament of Canada to the UK House of Lords—and addressed audiences at institutions such as Yale Law School, Stanford University, and Court of Appeals across the nation. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from the London School of Economics, where she studied as a Rotary Scholar.

Today, Alexandra works with communities, schools, and workplaces across the world to implement practical tools of civic, social, and intellectual renewal. From Carmel, Indiana to Rome, Italy, she equips leaders to cultivate environments where disagreement coexists with dignity, and flourishing across differences becomes possible.