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Dawn Santoianni

Market Leader, Energy

During her decades-long career, Dawn has tackled some of the most challenging issues facing the energy industry, including the clean energy transition, contaminated site management, and climate risk. She partners with clients to respond to evolving stakeholder expectations and integrate sustainability, resilience, and environmental justice into their business strategies. Companies in the energy industry and across sectors rely on Dawn’s help to navigate changing environmental policies and mitigate risks so that they can deliver exceptional value to their customers and shareholders.

Before joining Haley & Aldrich, Dawn led environmental and energy policy strategy for one of the largest utility companies in the United States. Drawing on her engineering background, extensive public relations experience, and knowledge of the energy industry, Dawn helps her clients build constructive relationships with customers, regulators, investors, policymakers, and other stakeholders. Her diverse project portfolio includes:

  • Checkmark Climate risk assessments and resilience studies
  • Checkmark Coal ash management and recycling
  • Checkmark Crisis communications
  • Checkmark Environmental justice strategy
  • Checkmark Electric generation, transmission, and distribution
  • Checkmark Media relations and public engagement
  • Checkmark Natural gas operations
  • Checkmark Regulatory impact analysis, commenting, and agency relations
  • Checkmark Environmental, social, and governance reporting and strategy
  • Checkmark Testimony on environmental policies and climate resilience

“The energy industry is transforming dramatically in response to innovative technologies, investor demands, regulatory changes, stakeholder interventions, and market pressures. I enjoy working with clients to develop an integrated approach to the energy transition that breaks down internal silos and finds common ground among diverse stakeholder viewpoints.”