Hannah  Frances Johansson

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.