Alexander Khost

Alexander Khost is a father and children’s rights advocate. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Tipping Points and founder of Voice of the Children, promoting and facilitating art and activism for young people. He is also Secretary and Treasurer of Friends of the Modern School, supporting the history of the Modern Schools and advocating for new forms of anarchistic education, and he works at the homeschooling coop, Brooklyn Apple Academy.

He previously founded the Teddy McArdle Free School, a democratic free school in New Jersey, and more recently he co-founded play:groundNYC, a junkyard playground for children on Governors Island in New York City.

Specific areas of focus and expertise:

  • Children’s Rights
  • Personal Stories
  • Being an SDE Parent
  • Being an SDE Facilitator
  • Being an SDE School Founder
  • Junk / Adventure Playgrounds
  • SDE Communities
  • SDE and social justice
  • Agile Learning Centers