Adria leads the Innovation Initiative (I2), a non-partisan hub within the Clean Economy Project that develops and drives long-term policy strategies to accelerate clean energy innovation. She works with philanthropic partners, policymakers, and advocates to close systemic gaps in the federal innovation ecosystem, ensuring emerging technologies can scale, strengthen U.S. competitiveness, and deliver durable climate impact. More broadly, she ensures cutting-edge technologies and tools are integrated into CleanEcon’s efforts to advance the clean energy transition.
Previously, Adria led the zero-carbon innovation and emerging technology policy team at Breakthrough Energy, where she guided strategies to accelerate the commercialization and global diffusion of affordable clean energy solutions. She partnered with business leaders, philanthropists, advocates, policymakers, and startups to design and champion policies that reduced costs and expanded the adoption of next-generation technologies.
Adria’s earlier roles focused on federal support for clean energy and innovation. She helped launch Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory, building the lab-embedded fellowship program and strategic partnerships across the cleantech ecosystem. At the U.S. Department of Energy, she managed R&D programs for hydrogen technologies and advanced innovation and commercialization efforts. She began her career in energy and environmental policy as an AAAS Congressional Fellow in the U.S. Senate. Adria earned a Ph.D. in materials chemistry from Duke University and a B.S. in chemistry from Drexel University.
She is based in Washington DC, where she lives with her wife and twin daughters. As a new parent, she takes any chance she can to get out into nature, to lift weights, and to re-learn Italian, something she is convinced her brain can do (she unintentionally earned a minor in Italian Studies during undergraduate).