Policy and Partnerships Coordinator
Hannah Downey is the policy and partnerships coordinator at PERC, helping to bring PERC ideas to the policy world. After being introduced to PERC her freshman year of college, she pursued the ideas of free market environmentalism and became a research assistant as a senior. She graduated from Montana State University with degrees in economics and political science in 2015.
Though she grew up in the Midwest, Hannah was lucky enough to spend her summers in Montana. Throughout college she worked as a backpacking guide in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Hannah now calls Bozeman home and fills her spare moments with skiing, mountain biking, and enjoying the wonderful outdoors.
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Empowering local land managers to spend the revenues they have generated on their greatest needs can help provide the resources to care for our shared lands properly.
While there’s still much to do to solve the problem of plastics pollution in our oceans, the Henderson Island plastic pollution expedition shows how efforts by private groups and innovative repurposing can be parts of the solution.
The Department of the Interior announces reforms, supported by PERC research, to improve wildlife recovery under the Endangered Species Act.
Catherine Semcer testifies before Congress on the role of international hunting in conserving African wildlife.
Brian Yablonski testifies before the U.S. Senate on ways to improve the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
A collection of PERC research on how we fund and maintain outdoor recreation opportunities on public lands.
