Victoria Freire is a research fellow at the Energy and Policy Institute. She became involved in investigative research as a student and fossil fuel divestment organizer, uncovering her university’s extensive ties to the industry. Prior to joining EPI, she aided in the discovery of millions of dollars in fossil fuel funding to universities nationwide alongside organizations such as Data for Progress, Fossil Free Research, and UnKoch My Campus.
Victoria holds a degree in International Affairs and History from George Washington University, where she pursued a two-year research thesis surrounding U.S. complicity in the 1976 military dictatorship in Argentina. Through this, she analyzed hundreds of declassified government documents as part of the Argentina Declassification Project, the largest government-to-government declassification release in U.S. history.