Living between the San Francisco Bay Area and the South, Hanna is from Mississippi. She has a B.A. in Russian language, and in 2017, she earned her Masters of Journalism in Documentary Filmmaking from UC Berkeley. Hanna works as a freelance videographer and journalist and has pieces in The Atlantic, PBS NewsHour, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, and The Independent U.K. She won a Society of Professional Journalists National Mark of Excellence and UC Berkeley’s Gobind Behari Lal Award for Exceptional Reporting.
This series is the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their ancestral home and one woman’s effort to bring the living history of her family back to the land.
