Alex Gilbert (adoption advocate)

Sasha Alexander Gilbert (Russian: Саша Александр "Алекс" Гилберт; born 1 April 1992) is a Russian-born New Zealand adoption advocate, writer and media presenter, and is the founder of the organisation I'm Adopted which he established in 2015.

Gilbert, whose name at birth is Gusovskoi Alexander Viktorovich, was born in Arkhangelsk, where he was placed in a local orphanage for the first two years of his life until 1994, when he was adopted by his New Zealand parents. In 2013, Gilbert started searching for and located his Russian genetic parents, with whom he had no connection; his genetic father did not know about Gilbert's existence until Gilbert contacted him in 2013.

In 2015, Gilbert established the organisation I'm Adopted, a support network for adoptees. Gilbert has been nominated for several awards for his adoption work, including Young New Zealander of the Year in 2018 and New Zealander of the Year in 2020.

Gilbert has made several appearances on television shows and documentaries about international adoption, and has written two books. Besides advocacy, Gilbert has worked in media and television, and regularly publishes videos to his YouTube channel. In 2022, Gilbert presented the TVNZ series Reunited, for which he also worked as a writer. In late 2022, Gilbert started to publish his web series An Adoption Story through his YouTube channel. The series was then later released on Amazon Prime.