Alexis Lerner is a scholar of visual culture and political expression whose research focuses on art, public space, and dissent in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. She authored Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States, published by University of Toronto Press. The book examines graffiti and street art as forms of political communication in post Soviet societies, analyzing how artists navigate censorship, surveillance, and state control. Lerner’s work situates urban visual culture within broader debates about free speech, civic identity, and resistance in authoritarian contexts.