Hanna Homestead

Researcher with 10+ years of experience working at the intersection of policy, advocacy, and grassroots organizing. She/her. 

MA, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) 

BA, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Compost the war machine. Decolonize everything, everywhere - starting with ourselves. 

Selected publications 

• Analysis · The Intercept · Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising · November 11, 2025

• Analysis · The Intercept · Price Tag for Trump’s D.C. Military Surge: At Least $1 Million a Day · August 20, 2025

• Analysis · The Guardian · Trump’s ‘gas-guzzling’ parade will produce planet-heating pollution costs, analysis says · June 13, 2025

• Op-Ed · Common Dreams ·  A Trillion Dollars for Wasteful Pentagon and No Money for Social Goods We Need and Want · May 18, 2025

• Quote/Profile · Possibilities · Bloody Tax Dollars · April 17, 2025

• Op-Ed · OtherWords · Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does · March 12, 2025

• Fact Sheet · Institute for Policy Studies · Genocide in Gaza — the Biden Administration’s Role and Legacy · December 27, 2024

• Webinar · National Priorities Project ·  The Global Politics of #PayUp: How US-China Militarization Impacts International Climate Finance · September 20, 2024

• Webinar · Center for International Policy · Environmental Impact of Explosive Weapons in Gaza · June 5, 2024

• Article · Center for International Policy · New Insensitive Munitions May Pose Lingering Toxic Threat · April 22, 2024

• Quote · Press Release ·  Warren, Casten, Escobar, 23 Lawmakers Urge Biden Administration to Finalize Climate Risk Disclosure Rule for Federal Contractors · April 8, 2024

• Quote  · The Washington Post · U.S. more isolated on Israel as Gaza crisis deepens · December 12, 2023

• Article · Responsible Statecraft · Congress, don't shut down the chance to do the right thing on war & weapons · September 26, 2023

• Article · Inkstick · Amending America’s Undemocratic Defense Policy · January 25, 2022

• Article · Inkstick ·  Congress Has The Power To Stop Arming Human Rights Abusers · June 5, 2021

• Article · Our Lives Magazine·  Rights Not Rescue: What Sex Workers in Wisconsin Need · December 16, 2021

Invest in People Over Pentagon 

• The MAGA reconciliation bill (passed July 2025) authorized record spending increases for the Pentagon and mass deportation by cutting essential funding for Medicaid and SNAP.  We found that preserving funding for healthcare and food aid for millions of Americans would have been as simple as canceling the Pentagon and mass deportation increases. See: Trading Life for Death: What the Reconciliation Bill Puts at Stake in Your State and Representative Rashida Tlaib's op-ed citing the report. 

Decriminalize Sex Work in Wisconsin 

• Co-founded Rights Not Rescue WI to produce research and support policies that destigmatize, decriminalize, and decarcerate workers and communities impacted by the criminalization of the sex trade. See article: Rights Not Rescue: What Sex Workers in Wisconsin Need. 

Count & Cut Military Emissions 

• Organized 22 foreign policy, climate, and grassroots organizations calling on the Biden administration to establish standardized greenhouse gas and climate-risk reporting regulations for Pentagon contractors. See: Broad-Based Coalition Urges Federal Contractor Climate Disclosure Requirements To Close the Military Emissions Reporting Gap, featured in Politico’s NatSec Daily Newsletter and Senator Warren's press release. 

YWCA Madison Racial Justice Summit 2025

• Palestine: The Frontier in the Fight for a Livable World

Netroots Nation 2025

• How the Bloated Pentagon Budget Militarizes Immigration Enforcement

American Public Health Association (APHA) 2024

• New Insensitive Munitions May Pose Lingering Toxic Threat

International Studies Association 2023

• Algorithms as Weapons