Alex Troy worked at two Jew­ish schools, teach­ing his­to­ry at one and serv­ing as Head of the oth­er. Before becom­ing an edu­ca­tor, he worked as a lawyer and investor for thir­ty years. He recent­ly pub­lished his first nov­el, The Acad­e­my Of Smoke And Mir­rors: A Board­ing School On The Brink. Alex is a grad­u­ate of Yale, Har­vard Law, and St. John’s College.