Builder’s Experience to Ship: from luxury leather goods to AI automation.
Strategist’s Rigour: the ability to ask questions, then listen.
Designer’s Taste: the thing AI can’t generate for you.
Most people pick one of those.
Hannah works the seams between them.


Hannah was on the founding team of an AI startup, building agentic tools for pharmacy operations, through to acquisition.
// Before that, design consulting and helping build an award-winning design studio in Boston with clients like Google and Southwest Airlines.
// Before that, an M.S. in Integrated Design & Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she took classes at both the School of Engineering and MIT Sloan School of Management.
// Before that, shaping trends and collections for a German luxury house where Billie Eilish wore one of her bags in a campaign.
// And before all that, growing up in New Zealand, where “just give it a crack” is basically a personality type.
Also, a visiting lecturer on taste and the Gestalt Principles at Tufts University. Former Sponsorship Chair building community at IDSA Boston, a chapter of the largest US industrial design association.
And, in actual free time: birdwatching.
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Talks & Workshops

RMIT, Fashion Enterprise course, Guest Industry Panelist
Apr 2026
Harvard GSD, xDesign Conference, [Service Design in an Uncertain World], Co-Speaker & Workshop Facilitator
Apr 2025
Tufts University, Prof. Dave Miller’s Human Factors course, [Let’s Talk About Design Strategy.] Guest Seminar Speaker
Apr 2025
MIT Sloan Design Club × IDSA Boston, [A Time Traveller’s Guide to Envisioning], Co-Speaker & Workshop Facilitator
Nov 2024
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Frauhaus Annual Design Intersection, [Creative Tensions], Co-keynote Speaker
Nov 2024
IDSA Boston × IDEO, [The Impact of AI and Design], AI Demo Presenter
Oct 2024
Northeastern University, Prof. Sheila Pontis’ MFA Experience & Information Design class, [~No Pressure~], Co-Speaker
Sep 2024
Yonsei University, Integrated Design Program Alumni Talk, [Insights from my journey as an emerging designer]
Apr 2024
Northeastern University, SCOUT Design Club, [How the **** we got here & where we might be going], Co-Speaker
Apr 2024
Entrepreneur Futures Network, Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (South Korea), [Customer Discovery], Guest Speaker
Mar 2024