Kristin Kuhns Alexandre

Kristin Colgan Kuhns was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, where her family has an extended history. She later left Dayton to attend and graduate from Sweet Briar College. Her graphic novel series, Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl, features Neci Stans, a Dayton gypsy princess whose love for Ezra Crawford, a Dayton aviator and composer, exposes her to danger.

From 1968 to 1978, she was married to William Norris Hubbard.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/02/style/kristin-hubbard-bride-of-lawyer.html%20 |title=Weds William Norris Hubbard. NY Times August 2, 1981 |work=The New York Times |date=August 2, 1981 |accessdate=August 2, 2013}} Alexandre and her husband were among the group of organizers that headed up the New York City activities for the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. She was the speaker coordinator{{cite web|url=https://helpsavenature.com/earth-day-history |title=Earth Day |publisher=Help Save Nature |accessdate=April 20, 2018}} for the NYC event.

Alexandre wed Richard Warren Gerrity in 1981.{{cite web|author=Published: September 11, 1988 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/11/style/kristin-gerrity-and-dewitt-alexandre-jr-married.html |title=Weds William Warren Garrity. NY Times September 11, 1988 |work=The New York Times |date=September 11, 1988 |accessdate=August 2, 2013}} She remarried, {{when|date=March 2024}} to DeWitt Loomis Alexandre, an investment advisor.

Alexandre wrote feature stories for The Christian Science Monitor,{{cite journal|title=The Christian Science Monitor|journal=The Christian Science Monitor|date=March 19, 1973|issue=Arts and Entertainment|authorlink=Teaching Poetry and Theatre in Prison|page=16|location=New York}} Ingenue Magazine,{{cite journal|last=Hubbard|first=Kristin|title=How to Split Up Without Breaking Down|journal=Ingenue Magazine|date=May 1972}} Town & Country Magazine,{{cite journal|last=Hubbard|first=Kristin|title=Town & Country|journal=House Beautiful|date=June 1976|volume=118|issue=6}} and The New York Daily News.{{cite news|last=Hubbard|first=Kristin|title=Mad. Ave Rolls Out the Red Carpet for The Shoeshine Man|newspaper=The New York Daily News|date=November 19, 1972}}. She wrote a weekly column called "The Young Slant" for The Dayton Journal Herald.{{cite journal|last=Kuhns|first=Kristin|title=The Young Slant|journal=Dayton Journal Herald|date=July 15, 1966}} Alexandre's first writing experience was with the Kettering-Oakwood Times when she documented her experiences with The Experiment in International Living through a series of columns she submitted while living in France.{{cite news|last=Kuhns|first=Kristin|title=Citations: Experiment in International Living|newspaper=The Kettering-Oakwood Times|year=1972|location=Dayton, Ohio}}

She worked as a publicist for the advertising agency Ammirati Puris Lintas, the Puerto Rico Economic Development Administration, Rums of Puerto Rico and Sweet Briar College. She was editor of the corporate magazine for Champion International U.S. Plywood and C.I.T. Financial Corporation.{{cn|date=March 2024}}

In the early 1970s, Alexandre was a reporter on one episode of WNET's 51st State.{{cite web|title=The 51st State|url=http://www.thirteen.org/the51ststate/name.php|work=Reporter|publisher=Thirteen/WNET New York and the Educational Broadcasting Corporation}} She is also President of The Kuhns Investment Co. LLC,{{cite web|title=Kuhns Investment|url=http://www.manta.com/c/mm2r15m/kuhns-investment|work=LLC and investment company|publisher=Manta Media Inc.}} a small, privately held family investment company located in her native Dayton, Ohio.

Alexandre worked as a producer and writer for various film projects and was a featured writer on The Black List.{{cite web|title=Kristin Alexandre Profile|url=https://blcklst.com/profile/kristin-alexandre|work=webpage|publisher=The Black List|access-date=March 27, 2024}}

• {{cite book |title=Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl in the Gilded Age |year=2012 |isbn=978-0190626020 |last1=Varol |first1=Ozan O. |publisher=Oxford University Press }}{{cite web|accessdate=February 29, 2012|url=http://www.themortonreport.com/books/interviews/comics-kristin-alexandre-on-nuncio-and-the-gypsy-girl-in-the-gilded-age/|title=Comics: Kristin Alexandre on Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl in the Gilded Age|first=Bill|last=Baker|date=November 19, 2011|publisher=The Morton Report}}
• {{cite book |title=Gem City Gyspy |year=2013 |isbn=978-1940016023 |last1=Alexandre |first1=Kristin Kuhns |publisher=Sisterhood Publications }}
• {{cite book |title=Find a Great Guy: Now and Forever |year=2008 |isbn=978-0977668717 |last1=Alexandre |first1=Kristin Kuhns |publisher=Runnymede Press }}
• {{cite book |title=The Perfect Gentleman: The Secrets Rich Girls Use To Choose The Classiest Guys |year=2007 |isbn=978-0977668700 |last1=Alexandre |first1=Kristin Kuhns |publisher=Runnymede Press }}

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• [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/11/style/kristin-gerrity-and-dewitt-alexandre-jr-married.html?scp=1&sq=kristin%20Gerrity%20marries%20Dewitt%20Alexandre&st=cse Kristin Gerrity and DeWitt Alexandre Jr. Married], nytimes.com. September 11, 1988. Accessed March 30, 2024.
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100427124157/http://www.buzzle.com/articles/earth-day-history.html Earth Day History]}}, buzzle.com. Accessed March 30, 2024.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120126085639/http://www.tantalize.in/earth-day-on-22-april-2011-celebration/ Celebrate Earth Day 2011]
• [http://dancetheatre.blogspot.com/ Profile], dancetheatre.blogspot.com. Accessed March 30, 2024.
• [http://entertainment4art.blogspot.com/2008/07/enough-is-enough.html Art Online], entertainment4art.blogspot.com. July 2008.

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