Her family moved to Rock Island, Illinois where Alejandra attended Rivermont Collegiate, known then as St. Katharine's St. Mark's Independent College Preparatory School, until 1981.

During her tenure, Graft aggressively participated in philanthropic enterprises, including Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation New Orleans (MIR) with William McDonough + Partners, and Cherokee.

[7] At Undisclosable, she completed architectural work for Jonathan Glazer and J. Spaceman's Untitled: A physical manifestation of “Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space" presented by The Creators Project (a partnership with Intel and Vice) at Coachella in April 2011 [8] and in Brooklyn that October.

[9] She has spearheaded architectural, interior, and product design solutions for a wide variety of project types, including healthcare, commercial, residential, cultural, and hospitality; as well as at a variety of scales, from the single-family home to multi-use towers and large scale master plans, maintaining a flexible and often cross-disciplinary attitude in order to create progressive, nimble solutions within a rapidly changing world.

These designs espouse the belief in enriching spaces through combining seemingly disparate elements, whether they pertain to the narrative sequences contained within a building, geometry, or materiality.