In March of 2023, Hanna was diagnosed with ALS. You can follow updates on her story, view some of her writing, and hear her speak about her experience here: okaythen.net/hanna.

My fifteen-year career in interior design taught me that what we can imagine can become a tangible reality. But as a society we often lack what’s needed to co-create the thriving world we can dream of.

I grew up in apartheid South Africa with a clear social caste system that still reverberates in inequitable practices that harm everyone. Living there, I came to witness how patterns of oppression perpetuate in our own bodies and in the social fabric, one generation after another.

I left the world of design and strategy to learn about social transformation. I embarked on a different mission: to transform myself and share what I learn with others so that we can get good at the collective work of healing, repairing, and re-weaving.

For the last decade, I have taught in the field of design for social innovation and I have co-hosted spaces of transformation for over twenty-five cohorts. Clients who are tired of the status quo come to me to co-host brave spaces inside their organizations. I support them to see and shift harmful habits, reclaim their capacity to stand in resilient relationships and take effective action to co-create cultures of belonging.

Much of my work has been with change leaders, supporting them to become more skilled at co-creating social change. Other spaces served as a respite for burnt-out change leaders. I’ve also hosted long-term white affinity groups in organizations and communities, in service to the larger efforts to replace white supremacy culture and co-create a just world.

My superpower is making the invisible practical. I help you touch the deep stuff we’d rather avoid, but that yearns to change. I am a glutton for the creative process and have tried my hand as a performer (dancer, improviser, actor), artist (exhibiting some) and writer.

With my background in the arts, design, embodied practices and facilitation, I am uniquely able to help groups who yearn to take their place in creating a wholesome world, to embody and create the change they seek.