Alexis Lopez-Cepero Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Track and analyze water-related federal legislation and administrative policy—including federal budget and appropriations, WRDA, and Farm Bill—important to the Great Lakes, priority ecosystems, and national parks.- Author letters, fact sheets, reports, and online material that supports regional and national water quality and quantity priorities.- Assist the Senior Director, Water Policy, in his role as Policy Director for the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes (HOW) Coalition. Research and draft Coalition materials including letters, fact sheets, reports, and implement legislative and political strategy for the HOW Coalition.- Help cultivate and maintain effective relationships with administration officials (Department of the Interior, the EPA, Department of Agriculture, and Army Corps of Engineers, and NOAA), members of Congress and their staff, and partners and allies in support of protecting or restoring the availability of clean water in the Great Lakes, national parks, and aquatic ecosystems. This includes scheduling, organizing, and attending meetings; maintaining a database and other lists; preparing timely reports on meetings, hearings and markups, etc.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Provided legal and legislative research, developing briefs, reports, and policy recommendations.- Led and supported analysis, tracking, and reporting of Congressional and Agency activity ranging from the budget and appropriations process, disaster response and recovery, tax policy, agency rule-making, and legislative impacts on the core missions of the DOI and EPA.- Responsible for supporting coordination with partners and partnership projects. Supported Congressional engagement, coordinating staff meetings and sign-on letter efforts.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Handled front desk responsibilities, managing constituent communications; producing editing, and dispatching formal policy and position responses.- Conducted legislative research and supported tracking of floor activity, committee hearings, and appropriations efforts.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Researched and assessed local, regional, and global responses to climate change with a focus on Latin America producing a report with focused analysis of national fossil fuel policies.- Produced and edited issue briefs for internal and public distribution detailing policy actions in response to the Paris Agreement, regional pacts, and community actions.- Coordinated, produced, and edited materials detailing green finance and renewable energy policies and mechanisms for use at stakeholder seminar in Santiago, Chile.- Wrote and edited weekly climate, renewable energy, and green finance news blog.

Reviewed and analyzed academic papers and data in an effort to understand correlations between public opinion and energy policy; measuring effects on the energy sector along with understanding the economic effects of energy privatization.

Inventoried and sorted primary source historical evidence of Alaskan glaciers to determine historical fluctuations and current status of glacial advancement and retreat.

Policy intern under the legislative advisors to the President of the Senate in Puerto Rico. Conducted research and analysis on legislative projects with respect to energy reform, social programs with special attention to welfare-to-work programs, and bankruptcy policy.

Analyzed academic papers and data on Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) life cycles. Generated an economic analysis of hybrid vehicle policies and subsidies in the state of California with special attention to un-priced externalities.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Summer Intern in Science and Education division (Summer 2012) – reviewed and analyzed current agricultural practices and land use policies. Produced a report critiquing and suggesting changes with the goal of establishing revised Trust policies for land management and implementation of sustainable agriculture techniques.

Investigated and analyzed scholarly material on the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) developing theories on links between green house gas emissions and increased variability of the phenomena.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Environmental Resource Policy

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Government

Activities and Societies: Phi Sigma Pi National Honors Fraternity