Alex Freedman is the Executive Director of the Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC). Prior to joining CRFC, Freedman served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa and Chief of Staff to the President of Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. He previously had a career in journalism as an investigative reporter for CBC's The National and CBC Winnipeg, and later as Senior Producer and Bureau Chief for the CBC in Québec City.