Alexus Cumbie won the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award in 2020.
Birmingham native Alexus M. Cumbie is an influencer.
In 2019, she was named one of Birmingham’s most promising natives to invest in by the Birmingham Times, honored as the Southeastern Region’s New Soror of the Year by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., was named the recipient of the Greer Marechal Memorial Prize for her published healthcare research, “Why Negro Bodies Dodge a Southern Sun,” and was selected by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to serve as an intern on Capitol Hill for the second time as a legislative and press assistant with the office of Congresswoman Terri Sewell.
The political science and business management major is president of UA’s NAACP chapter, president of InterVarsity Christian Ministries, director of SGA’s Black Student Leadership Council, vice president of the Anderson Society and a member of the honor societies Mortar Board, Omicron Delta Kappa, The Carl A Elliott Society and Rho Lambda.
She’s also a member of the 31st Order of XXXI, which recognizes the most influential women at the Capstone based on their distinguished character and significant contributions to the University, state and nation.
Outside of her leadership roles, Cumbie is a poet whose work has been published in the American Library of Poetry.
She uses poetry as a tool to help increase literacy rates in the South through an organization she created called Literary Vibes.
Her parents are Cathleen and Kennard Cumbie.