Hannah is a music major whose broad research interests include jazz studies and gender theory, and her studies are focused on ethnomusicology, nonfiction creative writing, and composition. Her project centers on dissecting the altered masculinity of jazz as a subgroup and a specific examination of Billy Tipton's life and gender through the lens of jazz. At Penn she is an associate editor at PennSound and plays in the Penn Jazz Band, Penn Jazz Combos, and a trio through Penn Chamber ensembles. This summer she interned with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and produced a series of interview podcasts called "Folkways Fast Five" in addition to updating metadata and aiding in archival digitization. She is a classically trained cellist and also plays the jazz bass and the sitar, and she has performed at the Bowdoin Music Festival, Bay Chamber Music Festival, "Cello, An American Experience" intensive, Maine Jazz Camp and Interlochen Arts Camp. Her writing has appeared on the Smithsonian Folkways website and in Cleaver magazine.