Hana is a PhD candidate in Dr. Bilal Butt’s Critical Environmental Geopolitics Research Group and a Graduate Student Associate at UMich's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES). Prior to the University of Michigan, she received her BS and MS degrees in International Affairs from Georgia Tech. She has worked alongside domestic and international policymakers while lobbying the U.S. congress for climate legislation, conducting environmental and political research for the State Department, and working on United Nations projects centered around mobilizing environmental and human rights initiatives.