Alexandra (she/her) is a PhD student in Civil and Systems Engineering. She received her M.S. (2025) in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley and her B.S. (2022) in Interdisciplinary Environmental Science from Howard University. Her research focuses on coastal urban environments and lies at the intersection of climate policy modeling and critical environmental, economic, and energy justice methods and logics. A Baltimore native, in her free time Alexandra enjoys advocating for a just and sustainable future. She serves as a Chesapeake Bay Foundation Stanley Trustee and is a member of the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Fire Weather, Technology and Risk.
Select Publications:
2025 — Montañés, C. C., Grayson, A., Kammen, D., & Callaway, D. “Dimensions and distribution of household energy insecurity in the United States.” Research Square preprint
2024 — El Kontar, R., Robertson, J., Cu, K. N., Grayson, A., Ling, J., Sotiropoulos, H., & Rakha, T. “An Open-Source Framework for Characterizing Urban Energy Models: Integrating Top-Down and Bottom-Up Methods to Predict Residential Buildings Characteristics” National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2023 — Ball, J., Forrester, S., Grayson, A., & Satchwell, A. “Electric vehicle program designs and strategies to enhance equitable deployment.” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2023 — O’Shaughnessy, E., Grayson, A., & Barbose, G. “The role of peer influence in rooftop solar adoption inequity in the United States.” Energy Economics
Email: Agrayso6@jh.edu
Areas of Interest: Analytic tools; Climate policy; Energy; Environmental, Energy and Economic justice (EEEJ)
