Priscilla Alexander is a world-renowned expert on prostitution, based on her research as a member of COYOTE, the oldest sex workers' rights movement, established in 1976. In 1979, with Margo St. James, Ms. Alexander founded the North American Task Force on Prostitution (formerly known as the National Task Force on Prostitution), a loose coalition of sex workers' rights organizations in the United States and Canada.From 1985 to 1990, Ms. Alexander worked with Project AWARE, one of the first studies to examine the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among female prostitutes and other women. In 1987, she was a founding member of the California Prostitutes Education Project (CAL-PEP), one of the first sex worker-organized HIV/AIDS prevention projects in the world, and the only such project in the United States organized by sex workers on their own behalf.In 1987, she co-edited the book Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry, published by Cleis Press. From 1989 to 1993 she was a consultant with the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS, serving as the focal person on sex work and HIV/AIDS, and developing a strategy for responding to the problem of HIV/AIDS among women. Her publications include articles on a variety of issues related to sex work, including HIV/AIDS epidemiology, scapegoating, HIV/AIDS prevention, occupational safety and health, and human rights. She is a candidate for a Masters in Public Health at Columbia University's School of Public Health.

(1998). Sex work and health: A question of safety in the workplace." Journal of American Medical Women's Association. Spring;53(2), p77-82.(1997). Feminism, prostitution, and human rights. In (J. Nagle, Ed.), Whores and Other Feminists. New York: Routledge, p83-97.Ms. Alexander has written numerous other articles on issues related to prostitution, AIDS, and health education.