Alex Coccia is a Policy Manager for the Financial Security Program at the Aspen Institute, where he advances policy work on public benefits delivery and financial security. His work focuses on building an inclusive economy by making public systems robust, responsive, and accountable to people and communities who have long been excluded from them.
Before joining Aspen FSP, Alex was a senior policy analyst at the Center for the Study of Social Policy. While there, he led efforts to call for an expanded, fully refundable and inclusive Child Tax Credit, and to improve the administration and delivery of public benefits across the tax and human services systems. His work centered parents and caregivers in policy development so that programs and institutions effectively meet the needs of children and families.
Prior to that work, Alex was a policy consultant for Children’s Defense Fund Ohio, and a special assistant and policy analyst at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Outside of policy and advocacy work, he was an adjunct assistant professor in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.
Alex holds a DPhil (PhD) in Politics and an MPhil in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He received his BA in Africana Studies and Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame.