Hannah Frances Johansson

In May 2025, I completed my master's thesis at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism about corporate farmland consolidation and water politics in the Central Valley. Since then, I've worked with Pittsburgh's Public Source to report on regional climate change adaptation, and attended a Transom audio workshop in Interlochen, Michigan. 

My reporting has appeared in CNN, Michigan Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, Fresno Bee and Poetry Foundation, among other places. 

I'm a recipient of the Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Award, the 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship and the Foreign Area Language Studies Fellowship. 

Prior to journalism I worked briefly in ecology. I have a B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies, also from UC Berkeley, where I was a Regents' Scholar.

I'm currently freelancing from Pittsburgh, and open to tape syncs. 

Education:

Master of Journalism, Univeristy of California, Berkeley '25

Bachelor of Science, University of California, Berkeley: Conservation and Resource Studies '22

Transom Story Workshop, Interlochen, Michigan, August 2025

Geographic Information Systems Certificate, San Francisco State University '23