ALEXANDRA CARTER
Senior Vice President; Chief Development Officer
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Alexandra (Alex) Carter, MBA, CFRE, serves as senior vice president and chief development officer at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). She provides strategic leadership in fundraising to support CHLA’s mission to create hope and build healthier futures for children. Additionally, she is responsible for developing and launching the institution’s fundraising campaigns and events and is liaison to its Board of Trustees.
Carter has served as a fundraising leader and counsel to a variety of nonprofit organizations. For over two decades, she has devoted her career to leading philanthropic efforts for prominent healthcare entities. Since 2017 when her tenure began at CHLA, fundraising records have been exceeded repeatedly. Under Carter’s leadership, CHLA has garnered substantial gifts to support hospital priorities, the Jackie and Gene Autry Orthopedic Center and the newly-launched Chuck Lorre Research Scholars Program—which supports research education for high school and college students from under-resourced communities throughout LA.
