Alexandra Nordyke is a project assistant for the preschool obesity prevention project at the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. In her role she assists in data collection and management.

Alexandra earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Earth Science and Dance from Bennington College. While at Bennington, she studied perfluorinated compounds, possible carcinogens, and their geochemical adsorption mechanisms to soils.