The Alexia Foundation

The Alexia Foundation

7 min · July 2017

The Alexia Foundation promotes the power of photojournalism to give voice to social justice, to respect history lest it be forgotten and to understand cultural difference as our strength—not our weakness. Through grants, scholarships and special projects, The Alexia Foundation supports photographers as agents for social change. At a time when many other resources have dwindled, The Alexia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, remains unwavering in its commitment to support photojournalism on academic and professional levels. The foundation believes that there is no stronger force in bringing us closer to the world we inhabit. The Alexia Foundation was named in honor of Alexia Tsairis, a 20 year old student at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, who was lost in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland in 1988. She was one of 270 innocent people who were lost that day.