Alexia works with UT and various city departments in creating and utilizing localized climate data to advance climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation. With a background in grassroots environmental justice organizing, federal climate policy, and participatory research Alexia brings experience from working in academia, politics, and frontline communities to foster meaningful collaboration for change. Her notable achievements include pushing for an equitable fossil fuel phase out at the UN, successful campaigns against the petrochemical industry's expansion, contributing to climate and land use laws, protecting the Colorado River, and confounding an environmental justice education non-profit, Start:Empowerment, which has reached thousands of youth across the U.S. Additionally, Alexia has received prestigious awards such as the Grist 50 Fixer, Brower Youth Award, Harvard AOCC Award, WWF Conservation Award and been featured on platforms such as Forbes, The Washington Post, Now This News, and The Guardian. She holds a bachelor degree in environmental science and politics from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University and a masters degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.