Alex Cragun
Alex Cragun is the Director of Mercy For Animals’s Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) team in the United States and recently joined Mercy For Animals in August 2022. Alex has more than a decade of experience in nonprofit government affairs, public policy design, grassroots organizing and campaign management. Alex brings an outside perspective to the GAPP team, having worked on issues affecting low-income and historically marginalized communities like healthcare access, food insecurity, voting rights, election law, and transportation policy. Alex’s career has been focused on “doing good work” by creating and sustaining coalitions, bringing communities and community organizations together through shared interest. In his spare time, Alex is pursuing his Masters of Public Administration at the University of Utah, fosters for a local animal rescue, volunteers his expertise to a local animal rights organization and sits on the board of a nonprofit focused on inclusive city design. Alex lives in Salt Lake City with his partner, and their four companion animals.
