Autumn Spanne

Autumn Spanne is the manager of newsletters and bilingual content for Environmental Health News and The Daily Climate.

She’s also a freelance journalist who writes about science, the environment and travel. Her stories have been featured in EHN and The Daily Climate, as well as The Atlantic, National Geographic, The Guardian, Reveal, the Christian Science Monitor, InsideClimate News and CNN, among others. She was a 2016-2017 Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a 2006-2007 fellow of the Metcalf Institute for Environmental and Marine Reporting.

Previously, Autumn taught English and journalism on the Navajo Nation and later worked as an editor at Youth Communication, an award-winning educational publishing company in New York that trains teens and young adults in writing and journalism. She holds an MS from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, an MA in education from Western New Mexico University, and a BA in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Autumn is originally from California and maintains strong connections with the American Southwest. She now lives in Barcelona and enjoys hiking the Costa Brava, learning about Mediterranean history, flora and fauna, and exploring local cuisine.