- Education: University of Michigan, B.S.
Hannah graduated with honors in Anthropology-Zoology from the University of Michigan, where she studied chimpanzee behavior and vocalizations. She worked with bats at the University of Maryland and at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. before moving to Costa Rica to study the social behavior of the white-faced capuchin monkey. Hannah remained in Costa Rica for six years serving as the field station manager for the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. In Costa Rica she worked closely with the community where she lived, and succeeded in bringing conservation education to local school children. Hannah now works as an Associate Director at Putney, helping to coordinate programs in Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand, and overseeing staffing for Putney’s Excel programs. Hannah is fluent in Spanish and proficient in German. 2011 was Hannah’s fifth summer with Putney. She has led programs in Costa Rica, Ecuador and the Galápagos, Peru, and Australia, New Zealand, Fiji.
