I’m Hana.

I’m a purpose driven, multi-award-winning storyteller, sound artist and speaker.

I’ve spent over a decade developing ideas and concepts, establishing (and fucking with) formats and finding brave and beautiful ways to tell stories for multiple mediums across radio and podcasting, documentary film, publishing, live events and installation.

I’m insatiably curious and I believe that to create work with real impact, we need to engage with the world - not confine ourselves to a category. I relish exploring different topics through different mediums in pursuit of helping us understand ourselves and each other while finding creative and inclusive solutions to meet and respond to our increasingly mad planet.

My work spans continents and genres, from Bangladesh to The Navajo Nation, I’ve crafted multi-award winning documentaries on everything from Naked Man festivals in Japan to Cheerleading Grannies in Arizona, Fisherman’s Wives in Southend, investigations into brain injury in sport. My work has evolved across genres from audiobooks to curated live events, radio pieces to guerilla installations and even the first podcast to feature as a Gay Times Magazine Cover .

This is the part where my friends would burst in and say “AND she wrote a book!” Which still carries enough cache at most dinners to get you out of doing a party trick.

And while we’re lingering in the achievement section, I’ve won a number of awards for my work including multiple British Podcast Awards, Documentary Maker of the Year (twice) and Best Producer (twice) at the APA’s and I’ve been honoured by Amnesty International, the prestigious Peabody, Rose D’or and The Webby Awards.

I was named a “Trailblazer” and one of the Top 50 Inspirational Neurodivergent Women by Women Beyond the Box. My neurodivergence affords me bold ideas, heaps of empathy and an aptitude for change making and creative problem solving (aka exceptional in a crisis).

I’m constantly exploring how I can use storytelling as a force for good, while cultivating the courage to speak truth to power, not just in the work I create but through the talks I give and the workshops I teach most notably as an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths College and in Young Adult Prisons, using creative tools to help participants regain confidence and agency.

Being interested helps, as does listening, really listening.

I like getting to the heart of the matter and relish holding space for nuanced and progressive conversations. I’m not a fencer sitter. I admire people who are led by compassion and aren’t afraid to disrupt the status quo.

I get excited about cold water swimming and surfing, countercultural movements, collaboration, finding art in unexpected places, full circle moments, filthy basslines, playing the drums and creating work that can go beyond traditional forms.

Underpinning all of my work across all mediums is the drive to tell authentic and beautifully crafted stories that empower.