About
Hanna is a multi-media journalist based in Boston. She works as GlobalPost’s Editor of Breaking News and Social Media and is currently writing a coming-of-age memoir set in Burma.
Hanna recently spent two years living in India, where she worked as GlobalPost’s Mumbai correspondent, freelanced for a variety of publications including The Independent of London and PRI’s “The World,” and contributed to NYTimes.com’s travel blog, “In Transit.”
She received a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to cover maternal mortality in India in 2010 and child marriage in Nepal in 2011. She is currently a Round Earth Media fellow.
Before moving to India, Hanna was the founding World Editor of the Huffington Post. She won InterAction’s 2009 Award for Excellence in International Reporting in recognition of the HuffPost’s foreign coverage.
Hanna has also lived and worked in Burma, Thailand and South Africa. She has a passion for telling stories about people and how they live. She has covered maternal health in Ethiopia, police misconduct in South Africa, migrant workers in Malaysia, Iraqi refugees in San Diego and juvenile sex offenders in Los Angeles.
Hanna’s work has also appeared in Washingtonpost.com, The Times in London, LA Weekly and the Hartford Courant and on CBC Radio’s “Dispatches” and NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “Day2Day.”
As a teenager, Hanna challenged her small, relatively conservative town to be more open about sex. She quickly became dubbed the Condom Girl. Hanna’s youth leadership skills were profiled in the New York Times, Ms. and Teen People. She gave speeches on youth leadership around the country and was interviewed on national television and radio shows including the Mitch Albom show and Fox News.
Hanna received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, where she majored in the College of Social Studies. She started a column in the Wesleyan Argus called “A Little Bit Shady.” The column analyzed social issues on campus, from the dreaded walk-of-shame the morning after a sexual encounter to cocaine use to the emergence of online dating.
Hanna received her master’s in journalism from USC Annenberg, where she was a Dean’s Scholar and a columnist for Pop+Politics. She received the Jack Langguth First Amendment Award and was a 2008 NPR Kroc Finalist.
Article Highlights:
Abortion: GHI’s Missing Piece in Nepal
GlobalPost, August 25, 2011
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
LA Weekly, Cover Story, May 20, 2009
India: Married as Children
GlobalPost, May 30, 2010
Lessons From India’s Largest Slum
GlobalPost, May 17, 2011
India: How Bohra Muslims Set Themselves Apart
GlobalPost, April 24, 2011