Alex Morey
FIRE Staff Speaker
Alex leads FIRE’s Campus Advocacy efforts, overseeing strategy and success across the Campus Rights Advocacy, Policy Reform, and Engagement & Mobilization teams. At FIRE for almost a decade, Alex is proud to help advance the organization’s founding commitment to defending civil liberties on America’s college campuses.
An attorney and a journalist, Alex’s approach to campus advocacy integrates trusted legal strategy, public interest reporting, and the power of human connection. Her commentary is frequently featured by media outlets like The New York Times, the BBC, CNN, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Hill, the Los Angeles Times, and Politico. She speaks regularly at events nationwide, educating and engaging students, faculty, administrators, and members of the public on emerging campus rights issues.
Alex is a member of the First Amendment Lawyers Association. She has a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School, a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, and has trained at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. After earning her undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona in her hometown of Tucson, she served as Peace Corps Volunteer in Madagascar, where she taught English in rural, underserved schools and worked with area journalists through the U.S. Embassy’s American Press Center.
Alex is licensed to practice law in New York, the District of Columbia, and Wisconsin, where she lives with her husband and their three children.
Recent Writings
- USC canceling valedictorian’s commencement speech looks like calculated censorship,
- No, the Berkeley Law student didn’t have a First Amendment right to interrupt the dean’s backyard party,
- In hit to academic freedom, Fourth Circuit holds public universities can punish faculty for ‘lack of collegiality’,
- Who’s allowed to teach ‘Culture in America’? ,
- Delaware State agrees to campus safety initiative — but only if student participants sign a sweeping NDA,
- Stanford Law students shout down 5th Circuit judge: A post-mortem,
- Bluefield State president warns faculty: Support my administration, or else!,
- Report: Stanford student may need to ‘take accountability,’ ‘acknowledge harm’ for reading Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’,
- Hamline hiding critical Twitter, Facebook posts amid blasphemy ban controversy,
- Yale Law dean’s message to alumni promises free speech changes. We’re (very) cautiously optimistic.,
Host a FIRE Speaker On Your Campus
Hosting a FIRE speaker at your school is a great way to catalyze social change at your institution and educate your campus community about the importance of free speech, due process, and religious liberty.
Explore Our Work
FIRE is a mission-driven organization of hardworking, dedicated team members committed to defending and sustaining the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought.
Explore FIRE's Advocacy