Hanna most recently worked for the City of Fairmont, WV as their first-ever marketing and communications manager, bringing them into the 21st century and implementing things such as Facebook, a pay-by-phone parking app, and a state-of-the-art municipal website all in her first few years. With the City, she gained a vast array of professional skills and knowledge in the planning and development department working to improve the local economy with public art, beautification, and multi-million dollar recreational opportunities in a rail trail and the region’s first universally accessible park. Hanna serves on the Marion County Chamber of Commerce Board and is a member of the Executive Board as the Co-Chair of Events.

Hanna holds a Master’s degree in Integrated Marketing Communications from West Virginia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication with a Print Journalism minor from Shepherd University.

Favorite part of her job: Helping clients identify and capitalize on their uniqueness.

Professional superpowers: The art of the “dig” to find resources for the team to utilize.

Personal superpowers: Throwing together an amazing garden at the last minute every single year.

Her favorite things: Trips to the greenhouse; spending time with her husband Tim and their three children Stella, Reed, and Beau; trips to her family farm; horses; peonies; gardening; Taylor Swift; Kiawah Island & trips to Charleston, SC; learning more about family history in WV; when someone says “let’s get take-out for dinner”; her mom’s birthday cakes; her dad’s fun stories from his DNR/USFWS days; honey bees & farm fresh honey; the smell of fresh cut grass.