Autumn Hanna
Vice President
Autumn Hanna is vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, where she oversees programs and serves as a leading spokesperson for the organization. During her tenure, she has led legislative and outreach efforts to reform federal energy and natural resource policy. With more than two decades of policy expertise, she has worked on issues ranging from energy tax subsidies and carbon pricing to oil and gas leasing, hardrock mining, federal wildfire spending, and western water projects. Hanna is the lead author of many TCS reports, including Green Scissors, Smart Water Strategies, and Cutting Our Losses. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, and she has testified before both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Before joining TCS, Hanna worked on energy and natural resource issues at Penn State University. She studied at the National University in Heredia, Costa Rica and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College.