Senior Associate

Hannah is a Senior Associate at Purpose Union, where she advises clients on fostering meaningful conversations, practices, and policies centred on inclusion and equity. She has a keen interest in mental health and gender equity and is a trained VAWG (Violence against Women and Girls) professional champion and mental health first aider.

She has convened advisory groups and organised critical conversations seminars for teams in global health research funding, led events management and stakeholder mapping for charitable foundations, managed social impact auditing and strategy development for professional bodies, led employee resource group reviews for large employers and advised on equity initiatives and inclusive communications for international corporate organisations.

Highlights of her recent work include project managing the Sanofi U.S. Trust Inclusion and Equity in Healthcare summit for which she developed the theme and agenda for the event which connected 100s of healthcare professionals and community leaders and interviewing stakeholders from across the built environment sectors in order to develop strategies to target gender equity, social mobility and representation.

In her previous role, as a Corporate Finance Associate, Hannah enjoyed strategising with clients amidst the increasing requirement to observe environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, due to both compliance and investor and consumer demands. During that position, Hannah was also responsible for co-founding and leading company-wide ESG employee resource groups. This included the DEI committee, Carbon Neutral project and their Period Poverty Campaign which now supports young people from low-income backgrounds around the UK.

Originally from Preston, her passion for understanding equity, particularly through the lenses of gender and social mobility, led her to University of Leeds where she obtained a first class honours degree in BA Religion, Politics and Society. Highlights of her education include studying social divisions and social control, state crime and immorality, and the roles of faith-based organisations in different communities.