Chapters, West Region

Prior to her role as Hawai`i Regional Manager and Maui Fire Response Coordinator with Surfrider Foundation, Hanna has had a long history in non-profit leadership and environmental conservation in Hawai`i. From a young age, she has been passionate about connecting diverse groups of people and building community through connection to the ocean and land stewardship.

Raised on the East Coast, she spent nearly a decade teaching adaptive water sports to people living with disabilities for her family's nonprofit in Massachusetts. With a Bachelor's degree in Biology she moved out to Maui in 2013 where she spent the next decade working as a restoration technician and volunteer coordinator for a nonprofit working to restore a rare and endangered Hawaiian forest type on leeward Maui. In recent years, she’s become a competitive Hawaiian Outrigger Canoe paddler and spends most of her free time out on the ocean with her canoe club or doing downwinders in her OC1.