Alejandra Mejia Cunningham

Alejandra Mejia Cunningham leads NRDC's advocacy with state governments to ensure everyone can live, work, and gather in healthy, affordable, all-electric buildings. She and her team work closely with stakeholders and policymakers to design and promote innovative policies to transition buildings from burning fossil fuels to electricity powered by clean, renewable energy. She has well over a decade of experience in advancing building decarbonization and energy efficiency across the United States. She has worked on buildings and electricity policy in California, the Inter-Mountain West, Midwest, Northeast, and at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Alejandra holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and a masters of public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is based in NRDC's San Francisco office.