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Kristin Alexandre (born 1946) is an author and film producer currently working in the graphic novel medium.

Born Kristin Kuhns, Ms. Alexandre grew up in Oakwood, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. Ms. Alexandre graduated Sweetbriar College in 1968; upon graduating, she moved to New York City to help start the first Earth Day movement with Denis Hayes in 1970.

Author
Ms. Alexandre started her career in writing as an in-house editor for FIT Financial. Ms. Alexandre moved to magazine writing as an Editor for House Beautiful between 1975 - 76. Afterward she also wrote for Town and Country Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and New York Daily News.

In 1977 Ms. Alexandre switched writing careers again to become a public relations / copywriter for the Economic Development Administration of Puerto Rico and Rums of Puerto Rico. She worked for two governors: Gov.Rafael Hernandez Colon and then Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo.

Her public relations and writing assignments continued into the mid-eighties for the Chairman of Ammirati & Puris Advertising. During this time she also was a magazine writer for Town and Country Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Daily News, and House Beautiful magazine. As a full-time author, Ms. Alexandre first wrote The Perfect Gentleman: The Secrets Rich Girls Use to Find the Classiest Guys

Afterward, she wrote Find a Great Guy:Now and Forever Alexandre's first graphic novel was Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl in the Gilded Age. This historic fictional novel of early twentieth century Dayton Ohio, covers the Dayton Flood and the flurry of inventions and inventors present in Dayton. Besides notoriety as the home of the Wright Brothers, Dayton was an inventor and entrepreneurial epicenter during the first few decades of the 1900's. Industry and invention spawned hallmarks of American commerce and culture that continue to this day, including cash registers, automobile starters,

Television
In 1973 she left to become a Producer and On air talent with Channel 13’s (PBS) show “the 51st State”. She was there for a year and also freelanced as an on-air talent with Channel 5’s (WNEW) 10 o’clock News.

She was the hostess of a celebrated monthly luncheon series for businessmen and politicians at The New York Yacht Club, was the producer and hostess of the syndicated TV talk show Enough Is Enough and was an on-air correspondent and contributor to New York's Channel 5 and Channel 13 News.

Ms. Alexandre was also on national television’s topical show 20-20, the subject of a segment on working women without children.