I know Hannah from joint work on several occasions. She contributes with fervour to a re-imagination of what it means to be human in a world undergoing rapid change. Her photography, writing, and documentary work pull together diverse angles to create integrative works of great vision, magnetic attractiveness and profound importance. Hannah combines the qualities of acute intellect, high emotional sensitivity, sovereignty of aesthetic judgment and bold perseverance in one person.
- Andreas Weber (Biophilosopher & Author)
I’ve worked alongside Hannah in many settings: online as an interviewer and storyteller (for advaya), as an editor (for Dark Mountain Project); at the helm in the Hebrides (for Sail Britain), jumping over mythic Leap Day fires in London (for Experimental Thought Co.). In all these she was a superb curator and connector of people and places – talented, energetic, funny, smart, observant – all the qualities needed for hosting intelligent spaces to explore radical ideas and kinship in unravelling times.
- Charlotte Du Cann (Co-Director, Dark Mountain Project)
I’m impressed by the intellectual rigour that Hannah applies to her projects and life in general. Her curation for advaya has highlighted her ability to facilitate deep dives into important subjects. It’s rare that an educator is able to share such passionate learning: Hannah achieves this in spades. I’m also struck by her desire to explore these timely themes through film and visual storytelling. As someone who has a strong eye for an image and the creation of story, and now an immersion into island and archipelago culture, Hannah is buzzing with creative ideas. I’m delighted we’re friends.
- James Murray-White (Filmmaker & Activist)
Hannah’s range of skills, interests and activities are truly transdisciplinary in spirit, which is why they are hard to capture with a single term. I think of her as an eco-poet-philosopher who is a highly skilled visual communicator. Her work focuses on ecological storytelling, education and advocacy to create community and strengthen the inner and outer resources we need to address the climate crisis.
- Anna Katharina Schaffner (Coach & Writer)
Hannah is an imaginative and progressive thinker, maker and curator. She is hugely knowledgeable in her field and a dream to know and work with. The conversations and art she creates and enables honour the local and the global in their scope and stretch far beyond human-centredness. I always feel excited by what she's doing, how she's doing it, and what she'll do next.
- Anna Selby (Poet & Lecturer, Schumacher College)
Hannah is a person who expresses many skills through her work: creative vision, holistic thinking, careful facilitation, and clear and incisive writing. She asks big questions about human and nonhuman relationships and follows her curiosity with care. Her facility in weaving words and images together results in evocative perspectives about our living world, including how we might live with greater attention to and respect for our earthly kin.
- Gavin Van Horn (Executive Editor, Center for Humans and Nature Press)
Hannah is doing wonderful and important work. She is making a case for ‘islandness’ and how the impacts of the current crises on our lives might be best seen though that lens. She does this by refusing to take the easy way out as an ‘armchair philosopher’, but rather she immerses herself in these communities and seeks questions and answers on the ground. Her work is poetic and refreshing.
- Naresh Giangrande (Co-Founder, Transition Town)
The Kinship course is truly refreshing in a world that seeks to simply feel good, instead of feeling truthfully what is. I deeply appreciate the work of Hannah and her team. It opened the door to a more meaningful and grounded presence in today’s time that asks us to look inside, together, and make the changes needed.
- Kinship 2022 Participant
Hannah and Andreas managed to deliver a beautiful piece of art, a philosophy that's close to my heart as it weaves mysticism across many disciplines - it felt accessible and I really appreciated that.
- Ecology of Love Participant