Let The Healing Continue
Alex Bryant
In light of the recent events impacting our nation, what advice would you give to people in order to help them navigate the uncertainty?
I would encourage people to do actionable kindness by doing something instead of nothing. Examples of actionable kindness are like writing a letter of recommendation to someone who was laid off from a job, writing a review for small business, and simply ask genuinely on how people are doing and how people can help in multiple ways. You'll be surprised at how many people will be willing to do so.
Please share one or two available resources that can help people right now.
I currently work for the Trevor Romain Company, which is an educational publishing company that provides social and emotional learning resources to empower families, educators and children to become happier, healthier and more confident at TrevorRomain.com. This includes free ebooks, activities, free video books, podcast, products and more. For families, I would highly encourage to visit ComicalSense.com, which offers meaningful entertainment based from best-selling author, illustrator and TV personality Trevor Romain's award-winning animated series. The website has free worksheet activities, coloring pages and animation episodes that cost less than $1.99 each on a variety of topics kids can understand and thrive.
What is your personal mission in life?
To energize humanity through connection and positivity with meaningful opportunities that matter.
What is one of the biggest challenges you have overcome?
I would have to say graduating from college, because I grew up in a special needs program in primary school when I lived in the United Kingdom, and was told that dream would not be possible for someone like me. I overcame that rhetoric with the determination to try always try my best in all ways not only in academics, but in life challenges. I had a speech impediment, so I did speech therapy and stayed after school for tutoring to excel at the standard exams. As a result of my work ethic in primary and secondary education, I graduated with full honors with a full ride scholarship from a 4 year university!
What was one action that helped you overcome this challenge?
One action that helped me overcome this challenge to graduate is achieve the obstacles of adversity in applying for as many scholarships as possible so I can focus on my courses to achieve the requirements for gradation. I worked on my craft and using the software and participated in internships to make myself as prepared for what the world after graduation.
How do you define leadership?
I define leadership as a way to combine empathy and empowerment with the intention to create a lasting impact.
What advice would you give to someone that is ashamed to share their story?
I would say it's important to share your story, because it won't just be healing for you, but your story will help someone else's life.
People can reach me at:
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram or
by going to my website: www.Alexander-Bryant.com
Alex Bryant is an Emmy®-award winning Media Relations Director for children’s media company, The Trevor Romain Company (TRC) in Austin, TX which aims to empower kids to become happier, healthier and more confident. He is as also remained an active member of ACM SIGGRAPH, the International Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. The organization convenes two annual conferences in North America and Asia which is attended by tens of thousands of technical and creative professionals.
A digital force from the entertainment industry, Alex holds more than 6 years of experience within the realms of social media, television production and graphic design. In less than 5 years, Alex went from being an intern at CBS to director at TRC, making him the youngest executive at the company. Oprah Winfrey calls him, “the man with good vibes!” This year, Alex was selected by Black Enterprise Magazine as a Modern Man of Distinction. From his strong work ethic and contributions, Alex has also received 4 American Advertising Awards, a $100,000 scholarship from the General Motors Foundation, and an Emmy certificate for his work at Entertainment Tonight. Prior to TRC, Alex has worked at CBS, Dick Clark Productions, the Daytime Emmys, and NBCUniversal.
Since his early youth, giving back to others has remained a core value. Alex’s humanitarian efforts commonly focus on causes that ignite inclusion and resilience such as his volunteer work with the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Committee, float decorating with Honda and DreamWorks Animation for the Tournament of Roses Parade, NAACP Image Awards, ATX TV Festival, and the Circuit of the Americas for Indy Car, MotoGP and Formula 1. His efforts have also been acknowledged by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and he has had the honor of being invited to the Dieu Ngu Temple grand opening by the Dalai Lama and took part in opening for former first lady Michelle Obama for her ‘Becoming’ book tour. Alex also speaks across the country at schools and institutions such as: Virginia Commonwealth University, Long Beach City College, Texas A&M, Mildenhall College Academy, and his alma mater Angelo State University.
Born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and raised in Suffolk, United Kingdom and West Texas within a military family, Alex is a person with many different perspectives. He has a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from Angelo State University. Currently, he resides in Austin, TX with his partner Jennifer and cat Sophie.