Alex Kellogg

Alex is the Energy Accountability Manager at Michigan LCV, where he works with our coalition partners, elected officials and the public to hold the state’s powerful utility companies more accountable to residents, who pay some of the highest rates in the nation for some of the least reliable service.

A Michigan native deeply committed to social and environmental justice issues, he began his career in Nairobi, Kenya, where he landed a job at the first TV show about the positive side of Africa.

In his 20-plus year career as a journalist, he’s traveled to nearly a dozen countries and numerous states, reporting for some of the most respected niche and mainstream media in the world on issues as diverse as Sudan’s civil war and affirmative action in Michigan. A career highlight: as a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, he won awards for humanizing everyday Michiganders during the Great Recession and helping save American jobs during the historic U.S. auto bankruptcies. In recent years, he has transitioned to a career in strategic communications, holding management roles at a key Detroit think tank helping reshape the city’s future and a coalition of environmental organizations fighting to get toxic chemicals out of our environment, while also serving nonprofit and small business clients through his own consulting firm.

A scholarship founder and occasional book editor, in his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing, working out, traveling and watching basketball.