Julie K. Hanus is the Institute on the Environment’s Director of Strategic and Public Interest Communications. She brings two decades of experience as a mission-driven communicator, editor, and writer to IonE, most recently for the nonprofit American Craft Council and its flagship publication American Craft. She is also a former editor of Utne Reader – a national digest of the independent press with a focus on politics, arts, and the environment – and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She has a master’s in Strategic Communication from the University of Minnesota and BA in English from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.