Paul Ruiz

Paul Ruiz

Degree: 2013, B.A. and M.A.

Job Title: Senior Policy Analyst, Securing America's Future Energy

Paul Ruiz (B.A. and M.A. ’13) is a Senior Policy Analyst at Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE), a nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit aimed at reducing America’s dependence on oil. Paul is a member of SAFE’s policy team, where he conducts research, writes analysis, and contributes to the development of policy recommendations designed to strengthen the case for accelerating the adoption of alternative transportation fuels and insulate the United States from global oil market volatility. Paul is a regular writer and contributor to The Fuse, a news and analysis site that seeks to improve the public’s understanding of energy security issues.

Prior to joining SAFE, Paul was the data coordinator and research assistant for Dr. Danilo Yanich at the Center for Community Research and Service. His graduate research, which explored how news media ownership structures affect news content, helped inform legal arguments before the Federal Communications Commission with regard to the permissibility of shared service agreements and led to the reexamination of political news coverage by local news media outlets. During Paul’s tenure at SPPA, he was a legislative fellow at the Institute for Public Administration and coached a community development group in Wilmington, Delaware. He was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, James R. Soles Fellow, and Editor-in-Chief of New Visions for Public Affairs, SPPA’s journal of public affairs.

Born and raised outside Chicago, Illinois, Paul now resides in Northern Virginia where he’s a proud Blue Hen.