Alexandra "Alex" Doonesbury is a far-left techie and computer hacker who got her Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph. D from MIT and holds several patents. She is the daughter of comic strip star Mike Doonesbury but has established her own identity and prefers not to talk about him even though they are on good terms despite him being more politically moderate than she is. Alex was skilled with computers even as a young child while her father is technologically impaired. She has only had one boyfriend