Hannah works in the Motor Speech Lab in the Communicative Sciences and Disorders Department under advisement of Maria Grigos, Ph.D., CCC-SLP. She advanced to candidacy in Spring 2025.

Hannah’s primary research focuses on pediatric vowel production. She studies the development and evaluation of automated methods for measuring formants. Her work also examines childhood apraxia of speech, with an emphasis on early identification and intervention. She specializes in acoustic, perceptual, and survey methods.

Hannah received her M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from University of Washington in 2017 and her B.A in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences from University of Colorado in 2015. Hannah worked as a clinical speech-language pathologist in early intervention for three years before pursuing her doctorate at New York University.