About

Hi, I'm Hania (she/her)! I am an educator, researcher and artist. I move through the world in a cis, White, able-body, and identify as neurodivergent.

For the past seven years, I have run and supported Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) projects in Massachusetts with elementary, middle and high school students. Alongside this work, I co-run Imagining More Just Futures, a social justice education project for elementary school aged children and their grown-ups. We offer YPAR camps, intergenerational workshops focused on identity, power and justice, consulting for educators and organizations, and create free resources for families.

My research is related to this work, and uses participatory, arts-based and qualitative methods to explore how adults can support children in exploring social identity, structural power and big ideas like justice and liberation. My doctoral research at the Harvard Graduate School of Education focused on YPAR with elementary schoolers, and how adults can help children develop power analysis, or the ability to engage with power and how it shapes our lives and societies.

I have past experience in applied research projects, program evaluation, curriculum development and facilitating youth-led spaces, and love collaborating with community partners.

Outside of school, I enjoy swimming, hiking, long walks on the beach, photography, art projects, reading too many books at once, and making messes because it usually means I'm doing something fun. I also own a small art business, Wombat Wisdoms, inspired by the natural world, and what it can teach us about interdependence, community and solidarity.

I received a BA in Anthropology from Willamette University, an EdM in Arts and Education, and PhD in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

I imagine, dream, create and educate on Squaxin, Nisqually, Coast Salish, Cowlitz & Massachusett land.