About

Alexei Koseff is a reporter for CalMatters, a nonprofit online news sites dedicated to California politics and policy. He covers Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Capitol out of Sacramento.

Originally from Palo Alto, Calif., Alexei attended Stanford University, where he majored in American Studies and minored in Spanish. He also received a master’s degree from Stanford’s Graduate Program in Journalism, where he reported on government, education and housing in East Palo Alto for the Peninsula Press, a hyperlocal news site run by the Stanford journalism program.

Prior to CalMatters, Alexei covered the Capitol for three years at the San Francisco Chronicle and five years at The Sacramento Bee. He has also interned at the Washington, D.C. bureau of the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register, the Monterey County Weekly and the San Jose Mercury News.

Alexei is a product of bilingual education and is fluent in Spanish. He is an avid traveler and studied abroad in Madrid, Spain, for six months during college. He is also a passionate student of the arts. Alexei has been a dancer for more than 25 years and currently trains with the hip-hop crew Boogie Monstarz.