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Hannah (she/her) is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) in Tucson, Arizona. She received her Master’s from UT Austin in 2014. In 2018, her first job as in-home therapist for families with open cases with the Arizona Department of Child Safety came to an end when the program lost grant funding. She needed a new job and became a social worker in the emergency department (ED) at the largest and only teaching hospital in Tucson.

From 2018 to 2023, Hannah could be found in the ED where she helped grow baby docs (whom she affectionately referred to as her “large adult children”) into human-centered, trauma-informed, conscientious medical providers. From substance abuse to pediatric non-accidental traumas to sexual assault to death, Hannah walked beside hundreds of people on the worst days of their lives. She strove to honor the agency and dignity of everybody she came across: living or dead, old or young, housed or unhoused, neurotypical or neuroatypical, enabled or disabled. In the years Hannah did this job—which included the pandemic—she came to understand the profound and quiet ways that trauma colors our every action, interaction, and decision.

Though Hannah can confidently say that this job was the most transformative and singular experience of her life (so far), in August 2023 she made the decision to pursue other opportunities. These days, she is most interested in exploring macro, non-traditional spaces where her ability to both zoom out and drill down would be useful in unexpected ways, like UX design and Trust & Safety. Her approach is earnest, strengths-based, honest, and intersectional with a heavy sprinkling of self-determination and humor. Her personal ethical cornerstones are: always cite your sources, have and give informed consent, and do better once you know better.

She lives with her partner, 4 cats, 9 chickens, and 1 desert tortoise on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Hohokam, the Tohono O’odham, and the Pascua Yaqui peoples.

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