Nancy Sopko

Nancy Sopko is the Sr. Director of External Affairs at US Wind, Inc. In this role, Nancy leads the company’s government and public affairs initiatives, including key stakeholder outreach. Prior to joining US Wind, Nancy was the Executive Director at the Special Initiative on Offshore Wind (SIOW), an independent project at the University of Delaware where she led the industry’s collective engagement with the commercial fishing industry and, among other things, served as the Developer Coordinator on the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance’s (RODA’s) Joint Industry Task Force. Nancy has also been the director of offshore wind at the American Wind Energy Association; a policy advocate at Oceana, a nonprofit ocean conservation group; legislative counsel to former U.S. Rep. John Adler (NJ-03); counsel to the NJ Senate Judiciary Committee; counsel in the NJ Office of Legislative Services; and as a staff attorney at Legal Services of Northwest Jersey. She is barred to practice law in the State of New Jersey.