Alejandra is a staff attorney at the Sierra Club, where she advocates for the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power industry. Alejandra was formerly an associate counsel at the World Bank, where she advised client countries on public-private partnerships in the electric and other large infrastructure sectors. She began her legal career as an associate at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, where she represented clients on public trust and other water law issues, as well as carbon projects and conservation easements. Alejandra holds Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) and Masters of Law (LL.M.) degrees from Harvard Law School, and a law degree (LL.B.) from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. During her studies she worked at UNESCO’s World Water Assessment Programme in Paris, and was also a research fellow at Stanford University’s Program on Energy and Sustainable Development.
