Alexis M. Pelosi is a Fiscal Resilience Fellow at CA FWD, where she advances strategies at the intersection of climate resilience, infrastructure finance, and the built environment. A land use and environmental law attorney for nearly two decades, she focuses on integrating climate adaptation mechanisms and infrastructure finance into community development, demonstrating how the what, how, and where we build can address the housing shortage and physical climate risk while strengthening local fiscal resilience.

Through her firm AP Strategies, Alexis works with companies, nonprofits, and public agencies to advance community-wide climate resilience, develop innovative regulatory strategies, and implement market-based solutions to scale decarbonized, grid-interactive, and climate-resilient buildings. She serves as Strategic Advisor for the Built Environment at The Resiliency Company, a Senior Advisor to Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy and Environment (CLEE) and an Advisory Board Member for Epic Cleantec.

Alexis formerly served as the Senior Advisor for Climate in the Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) during the Biden-Harris Administration. In this capacity, she oversaw and managed HUD’s climate portfolio, integrating climate resilience, energy efficiency and renewable energy across the Department while linking robust disaster-recovery expertise with long-term decarbonization efforts.

A native Californian, Alexis earned her J.D. from the University of California Berkeley School of Law, an M.S. in Environmental Science from the Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. from the University of California, Davis.

She is admitted to the State Bar of California.