Alexandra Blaney is Co-CEO and Creative Director of Shine Global, where she leads content development and impact
storytelling to advance children’s rights worldwide. Since joining Shine Global in 2009, she has helped shape the
organization’s creative vision and produced award-winning films and campaigns that raise awareness, drive action, and
inspire change for children facing injustice.
Her credits include producing the Oscar-nominated live-action short Anuja, The Business of Trouble, Through Our Eyes: Homefront with Sesame Workshop for HBO Max, Virtually Free about youth incarceration, and episodes of the Webby-nominated digital series The Election Effect. She has also executive produced the documentary From This Small Place about the Rohingya refugee crisis and Comedy Against the Odds, co-produced the Ariel Award–winning Home Is Somewhere Else, and served as associate producer on the Academy Award®–winning short documentary Inocente, among other films.

In addition to film production, Alexandra designs and implements impact campaigns in partnership with filmmakers, advocates, and communities around the world. She is also the creator and leader of Shine Global’s Resilience Awards Initiative, which honors and supports filmmakers whose work centers the strength, creativity, and resilience of children. She is a co-chair of the Documentary Producers Alliance Ethics Committee, and a member of the IDA and PGA. Alexandra graduated from
Pomona College, where she studied International Relations and History.