In May 2025, I completed my master's in journalism at UC Berkeley. At journalism school, I reported on groundwater disputes in the Central Valley, financial support for families with disabilities and arts & culture in the city of Richmond, California.
My byline has appeared in CNN, The Fresno Bee, The (Hanford) Sentinel, SJV Water, Bay Nature Magazine, The Contra Costa Pulse, The Poetry Foundation, Richmond Confidential and The Daily Californian.
I'm a recipient of the Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Award, the 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship and the Sacramento Press Club Scholarship.
Last summer, I interned with the Investigative Reporting Program and studied Spanish in Guatemala for nearly two months as a recipient of the Foreign Area Language Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. Currently, I am interning for PublicSource, a non-profit news outlet in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In August 2025, I will head to Michigan for an intensive audio journalism workshop put on by Transom.
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.
00 - Pittsburgh officials look to generators to keep public safety station power on in storms - Public Source // 2025
01 - Fears swell in Oakdale as wetter climate spells increased flooding - Public Source // 2025
02 - New UC Davis clinic hopes to give small valley farmers some legal fire power... - The (Hanford) Sentinel & SJV Water // 2024
03 - Special needs trusts bring peace of mind to aging parents of children with disabilities - CNN // 2024
04 - Madera Judge asks for more information in lawsuit over fees for groundwater projects - Fresno Bee & SJV Water // 2024
05 - Madera farmers and groundwater agency in limbo waiting for court decision on fees - SJV Water // 2024
06 - Transforming the floating home community at Point San Pablo Harbor - Richmond Confidential // 2023
07 - Baltic Kiss, Renovated for Live Music, Retains Its Ghosts - Contra Costa Pulse // 2023
08 - After a Fire, Fast-Growing Flowers Lock in a Long-Term Recovery - Bay Nature Magazine // 2018
09 - Richmond Farmers Market prepares to open second location, in Marina Bay - Richmond Confidential // 2023
10 - Breaking: Two resign from city board over council’s pro-Palestinian resolution - Richmond Confidential // 2023
11 - Agroecology with Clara Nicholls - Climate Break // 2020
12 - Urban Farming with Paul Bernstein - Climate Break // 2020
13 - Julien Poirier Talks to the Daily Californian About NYC and Bay Area Poetry Scenes - Poetry Foundation // 2019
14 - Eating our campus: Foraging in the face of the coronavirus - Daily Californian // 2019 **First place in Berkeley Food Writing Competition
15 - Looking for the Beats and finding slam poetry - Daily Californian // 2019
Master of Journalism, Univeristy of California, Berkeley '25
Bachelor of Science, University of California, Berkeley: Conservation and Resource Studies '22
Geographic Information Systems Certificate, San Francisco State University '23
hannahjohansson@berkeley.edu
Twitter: @hanfranjohan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahfrancesjohansson/