About
Hannah lives in San Francisco and covers the California Capitol in Sacramento for the Los Angeles Times. She primarily focuses on the statewide housing shortage, homelessness crisis and criminal justice system, including California’s prisons and jails.
Previously, Hannah was a reporter for The Sacramento Bee and a Texas Tribune fellow. She is a graduate of Saint Louis and Northwestern Universities with degrees in journalism and Italian studies.
Clips
California’s power players:
Newsom hits the road to campaign for Biden in Idaho, building his own base in red states
As California Assembly Speaker’s power grew, so did his wife’s income
Dist. Atty. Brooke Jenkins gets a crash course in San Francisco politics
Burned by the Lincoln Project, exiled by the GOP. What’s next for this California Republican?
Accountability & Investigations:
A sexual misconduct settlement could threaten #MeToo progress at California Capitol
Equal opportunity extremism: How women seized the moment in California’s far-right radical politics
Before coronavirus, California let 1 in 4 of its public health labs close
Emails blurred the line between politics and policy in California insurance department
This mom protested vaccines, then started a ‘militia.’ How California extremism is changing
A housing crunch:
California took 35,000 homeless people off the street for 1 year. Did the program work?
Justice:
The fight to limit solitary confinement in California prisons is set to roil Sacramento again
Why efforts to scale back California’s ‘three strikes’ law for juveniles are failing
People-first reporting:
Her mother disappeared. Then her babysitter. A lawman fears she might be next
After recent killings on California reservation, tribes ask for help to stem violence