Stephanie Crawford is a Regulatory Affairs Director at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). In this role, Stephanie advocates on behalf of electric cooperatives before the executive branch in a number of areas, with a focus on distributed energy resources (DER) and supply chain issues.

Before joining NRECA, she was an ORISE fellow in the Department of Energy’s Office of European and Eurasian Affairs and advised international clients on U.S. energy policy and regulation at a consulting firm in Washington, DC. Stephanie earned a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from the University of Michigan.