Ryan Alexander

Ryan Alexander is a Senior Fellow supporting the Data Foundation’s Special Projects and the Climate Data Collective. Ryan has worked as an advocate, executive, grantmaker, and litigating attorney on issues including voter participation and political reform, climate, energy, and conservation policy, budget and tax policy, civil rights, and institutional accountability. In 2020 Ryan established Hyphen Strategies where she advises foundations and donors on collaborative grantmaking strategies and coalition campaigns. 

Previously, Ryan served as President of Taxpayers for Common Sense and executive director of the Common Cause Education Fund. She sits on the boards of directors of the Fund for Constitutional Government, the Project on Government Oversight, and is the co-founder and chair of Appalachian Mountain Advocates, the organization responsible for curtailing mountaintop removal coal mining in the US.