About
Alexis Bendickson
Student researcher, writer, and advocate working across philosophy, political science, policy, and sociology — with a focus on historical memory, human rights, and civic infrastructure.
Alexis Bendickson is pursuing a BS in Philosophy & Political Science with a minor in Sociology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she holds a 4.0 GPA. She also earned an AS in General Education with a Sociology concentration from Calhoun Community College. Her academic work is deliberately interdisciplinary — moving fluently between philosophy, political science, policy analysis, and sociology to study how history, law, and social structure shape present-day inequality.
She currently serves as a Student Researcher on Slavery, Memory, and the University — the Avalon Project — investigating the history of the Avalon plantation and the enslaved people who lived there on what is now the UAH campus, and hopes her findings will one day be part of the national Locating Slavery's Legacies database (LSLdb). Alongside her research, she works as Coordinator (Intern) on the James Linderholm Campaign for Alabama House District 20 in Huntsville, where she manages data systems and digital infrastructure, contributes to field strategy, trains volunteers, and conducts policy research. Earlier in her career, she served as Community Outreach Coordinator at Pay It Forward.
Framework
Her scholarship draws on abolitionist and anti-imperialist thought — particularly Walter Rodney's account of colonial extraction in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa — alongside feminist and Marxist political economy, applied through interdisciplinary study of philosophy, political science, policy, and sociology. That framework runs through her Avalon research into how universities remember (or fail to remember) the enslaved people whose labor built them, and through her campaign and policy work on the material conditions of the people that policy is supposed to serve. Her commitment to human rights and civil rights advocacy is grounded in her Episcopal faith and its long tradition of social justice — a throughline that connects her academic work, her organizing, and her sense of obligation to the historical record.
Her commitment to justice is shaped in part by her own experience overcoming significant health challenges — including lupus, a heart attack, a stroke, and kidney failure — and childhood poverty. That experience informs a scholarship and advocacy practice that treats structural hardship as something to be understood in policy terms, not just personal ones.
Outside of her academic and civic work, Alexis has been a foster parent through Alabama DHR since 2018, has been married since 2007, and is the mother of four.
Outside the archive: she has nine tattoos and a long-running soft spot for UFO lore and conspiracy theories — curiosity that spills over into her essay on the hidden influences of technology.
Education
BS, Philosophy & Political Science, Minor in Sociology
University of Alabama in Huntsville — 4.0 GPA
AS, General Education — Sociology Concentration
Calhoun Community College
Experience
Student Researcher, Slavery, Memory, and the University
The Avalon Project, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Coordinator (Intern), James Linderholm Campaign
Alabama House District 20, Huntsville — data systems, digital infrastructure, field strategy, volunteer training, policy research
Community Outreach Coordinator
Pay It Forward
Honors
Currently reading
- Slavery by Another Name — Douglas A. Blackmon
- Medical Apartheid — Harriet A. Washington
- Stamped from the Beginning — Ibram X. Kendi
- The Souls of Black Folk / Black Reconstruction in America — W.E.B. Du Bois
- The Shock Doctrine — Naomi Klein
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa — Walter Rodney
- Selected works of Lenin
She also draws on coursework readings and material discussed on her Substack.
Consulting & Speaking
Alexis provides political consulting services and speaks publicly on topics at the intersection of history, policy, and civil rights.
Consulting Services: Campaign data systems and voter file management · Digital infrastructure, including website development and communications templates · Field strategy and geo-spatial district analysis · Policy research and briefing preparation
Speaking Engagements: Historical memory and institutional accountability in higher education · Genealogical research methods for tracing enslaved ancestors and plantation-era records · Abolitionist and anti-imperialist political thought · Policy implications of poverty and structural inequality
Rates: Consulting — $125/hour, or project rates starting at $1,500 for full campaign data/digital infrastructure builds, scoped after an initial call. Speaking — $500 per engagement (virtual); $750+ in-person, plus travel expenses. A 50% deposit is required to confirm any booking, with the balance due on completion (consulting) or on the day of the engagement (speaking).
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