Tom Jenney

Tom Jenney is Arizona director for Americans for Prosperity, formerly the Arizona Federation of Taxpayers (www.aztaxpayers.org). Jenney is a Tucson native and a 1988 graduate of University High School. He earned an associate’s degree from the New Mexico Military Institute and a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Georgetown University. Jenney has worked for the Institute for Justice and the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and for the International Center for Pension Reform in Santiago, Chile. From 2002 to 2004, he was communications director of the Goldwater Institute. Jenney has taught government and economics at St. Paul’s Preparatory Academy in Phoenix, and serves as an elder at the Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Phoenix.