Hannah is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker currently working as lead editor on a forthcoming PBS Frontline documentary.
Hannah spent half a decade as a video journalist for the BBC, where she created online and TV documentaries and news videos across the US for a global audience. She went on to work as an editor and cinematographer at Side X Side Studios, where she worked on every stage of the production process for a wide range of commercial and original films and was an editor on a forthcoming feature documentary. Before transitioning to full-time editing and directing, Hannah helped launch a global news startup called Blue Marble, a project of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Hannah has an M.S. in journalism from Columbia Journalism School. In June 2017, she completed a reporting project in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp through the Davis Project for Peace foundation, where she assisted Syrian refugee journalists in taking their original reporting into the digital space. In 2019, she was awarded first place in the Feature Story category of the White House News Photographers Association’s annual Eyes of History Contest for her digital video, ‘After Years of Searching, I Found My Sister Next Door.’
‘My Name is Andi’, an experimental, remotely-filmed documentary Hannah co-directed at the height of the pandemic, was shortlisted in the 2021 BBC News Awards for ‘Most Innovative Use of Production Craft’, won 3rd place in the Documentary category of the 2022 White House News Photographers Awards, and received the NLGA: Association of LGBTQ Journalists’ 2022 ‘Excellence in Digital Video’ award.