Autumn Johnson, an attorney and executive director of the Arizona Solar Energy Industries Association, says she has a “challenge accepted” personality. It serves her well in her role advocating for solar energy at the Arizona Corporation Commission and other public bodies.

How did you end up in solar advocacy?

I was a social worker after graduating from college before attending law school, and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to study law for. I always had a public interest focus, but I saw that documentary An Inconvenient Truth before I went to law school, and so I decided to focus on environmental law. Then, when I got out of law school, it was the Great Recession, and so it was not an ideal time to be trying to get a job in the environmental law sector. I moved back to Idaho to pursue a Ph

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