Head of Public Affairs at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Ms. Lopez was recently named head of Public Affairs at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), under the Department of Homeland Security in the Biden-Harris Administration. She advises the TSA’s senior leadership on all external and internal communications, specifically employee, public, industry, and media engagement. Prior to TSA, she served as the Senior Manager of Public Affairs and Media Relations for the American Society of Civil Engineers, as the Ogilvy Public Relations Account Supervisor/Media Relations Specialist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, as the Press Secretary for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the Obama Administration, and as the Communications Director for the City of Bloomington/Office of the Mayor.

Alexa lives in Washington, D.C. with her fiancé, is an avid fitness buff, and has a cat named Flux Capacitor.