From arms to renewables: How workers in this Southern military industrial hub are converting the economy
Huntsville, Alabama is teeming with engineers and STEM talent. Some are leaving the defense economy for the clean energy one.
Taylor Barnes is an Atlanta-based journalist whose reporting focuses on U.S. foreign policy, human rights, and conflict. She is an international producer at CNN and has written for the New York Times, USA Today, and Marie Claire. She is a 2018 recipient of an Investigative Reporters and Editors fellowship. She was previously based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and speaks Portuguese, Spanish, and Arabic.
Huntsville, Alabama is teeming with engineers and STEM talent. Some are leaving the defense economy for the clean energy one.