Hannah graduated from Yale in May 2011 with honors in History of Art, and moved to DC to pursue her deep interest in making the arts accessible and attainable—through everything from museum programming to education to government and policy. While at Yale, Hannah strove to apply her studies in 19th- and 20th century American art (she wrote her senior thesis on the 19th century stereoscope) to more practical pursuits, participating in a number of local nonprofit arts activities. Hannah spent three summers working for the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, a four-day, outdoor festival celebrating over a hundred contemporary artists and hosting 500,000 visitors in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This primary experience of working in the local arts world was extremely influential in determining the jobs that followed, including a yearlong internship her senior year (2010-2011) in the Education Department at the New Haven Museum and Historical Society, a local history museum. Combining the arts and education then became a major focus, especially following Hannah’s Yale Alumni Community Service Fellowship for summer of 2010 to work at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) in DC. The internship at CHAW allowed for a direct introduction to the DC arts environment, which sparked Hannah’s desire to return to this unique environment—an environment that places the arts in a position to have a strong voice in policy and at the core of learning.