“No Airline Mask Mandate Means Disabled People Like Me Are More Isolated Than Ever” in Teen Vogue, 11 May 2022

“Reflections on Disability and (Dis)Rupture in Pandemic Learning” with Danielle E. Lorenz in Active History, 21 October 2021.

“The letter I wish I could write to my disabled student who cried in my arms last year when I assured her of her brilliance” in Our Crip Notes, Spring 2021.

Podcasts

All Access pass on CiTR Radio: What Is Happening at UBC? with Rachel Cheang, Amanda Mah, and Anna Mylvaganam

Forthcoming interviews on Epic Higher Ed and On The Air Podcasts with Danielle Lorenz (collaborator on Cripping Pandemic Learning CJDS Resource)

The Broadscast: Hockey is Not for Everyone ft. Hannah Sullivan Facknitz (20:26-45:30)

Media features & interviews

As It Happens interview with Chris Howden (20 July 2022)

CTV News with Ashkay Tandon (20 July 2022)

“‘Surviving just by the skin of my teeth’: Students face high inflation for first time“
Interview with Tara Deschamps for The Canadian Press (20 July 2022)

“Because Your Algorithm Says So: Examining our (sometimes toxic) relationship with our AI overlords.” by Michelle Santiago for The Cut

“B.C. university staff and students ask for more clarity around COVID-19 protocols“
Interview with CTV’s Akshay Kulkarni (17 October 2021)

“Building in Accessibility from the Beginning“
Interview for UBC History on CJDS Pandemic Learning Resource

“UBC History Student Spotlight” (28 October 2019)

“Medicaid expansion proposal offers hope to those who fall in insurance gap”
21 Feb 2018 feature with WHSV’s Jared Kline

“Healthcare rally stands up for the Affordable Care Act”
28 June 2017 interview with WHSV’s Victoria Wood

“Vigil for the Affordable Care Act in Harrisonburg”
29 June 2017 interview with WMRA’s Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Public media writing

“Hannah Facknitz (’18) Fulbright in Canada”
October 2019 JMU College of Arts & Letters Blog

“Va. Must Expand Medicaid”
24 March 2018 Daily News Record Op-Ed

Allyship: What Does this Really Mean? | Office of Regional and International Community Engagement | University of British Columbia | 26 January 2022

Cripping Crisis Learning: Access & Community in TA Labour | Teaching Assistant Training for UBC Department of History (7 September 2021)

Holding Crip Space in Anti-Crip Place(s): ORICE Anti-Oppressive Training | Workshop for Office of Regional and International Community Engagement at UBC (25 August 2021)

Voices of Access and Disability in Higher Education (Part 2): Opportunities for Change (24 July 2020)

For transcript of the panel, click here.

ACCESSIBILITY COMMITTEE | City of Vancouver | October 2023-Present

ACCESSIBILITY ACCELERATOR | Xenia Concerts | October 2023-Present

BEYOND COVID – TEACHING WITH CARE AND COMPASSION COMMITTEE | University of British Columbia | Summer 2021

“LET’S TALK ABOUT STIGMA REDUCTION!” EVENT PLANNING COMMITTEE | Pacific AIDS Network | 11 June 2021

FOCUS GROUP CONSULT | City of Vancouver Accessibility Audit | June 2021

PRESIDENT | UBC History Graduate Student Association | 2020-21
SECRETARY | UBC History Graduate Student Association | 2019-20

ADVISOR | Brent Finnegan for Delegate | Virginia 24^th District | 2018-2019

TREASURER | JMU Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society | 2013-14

Nastya Mozolevych
“Community Care Module”
UBC Human Rights Collective (2022)

Rachel Cheang
“Beyond Accommodations: Accessible University Education for Disabled Students in British Columbia”
LEVEL Youth Policy Program (2020)

Virginia Quilt Museum Projects:
Sewing Machine Gallery Guide
Quilts of the Month (Tobacco Premium, Baer Family, and Green Family Quilts)
2019 Christmas & Holiday Quilt Exhibit

Bridgewater Retirement Community Oral History Project (2013-14)
Esther Bittinger & Margaret Horn

• J. William Fulbright Scholarship 2019-2020
  Fulbright Canada

• Phi Kappa Phi Best Thesis Award 2018
  James Madison University

  “Performing Authentic Savagery: National Myth-Making and Indigenous Survival at American World’s Fairs, 1893-1904”

• Lesley Van Der Lee Scholarship | 2019
  Small Museum Association (Unable to Accept)

• National Conference on Undergraduate Research Travel Grant | 2018
  James Madison University Vice Provost

• International Network of Universities Attendance Scholarship | 2013
  Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan

• Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Scholarship | 2013

Other Awards

PHI ALPHA THETA BIENNIAL TRAVEL GRANT | JMU HISTORY | 2014
DEMETRIC WALKER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | JMU | 2013
HISTORY ALUMNI SCHOLARS AWARD | JMU | 2013 & 2014
DR. WILLIAM M. KING GHANA SUMMER FUND | JMU | 2013
J. LEONARD AND THELMA KENNETT BRANCH SCHOLARSHIP | JMU | 2012-2013

“Imagining Uncharitable (health)Care: Benevolent Canadian Ablenationalism and Non-normative Care Dreams” | BEYOND QUEER INCLUSIONS: POSSIBILITIES OF ELSEWHERE AWAY FROM CANADIAN HOMONATIONALISMS | ed. Suzanne Lenon and OmiSoore Dryden | UBC Press, forthcoming 2025.

“Access is the Art Itself: Image Descriptions and Access Technology in Mad, Crip Collaboration” co-authored with Sarah Cavar & Iris Xie | FEMINIST DESIGN RHETORICS: THEORIES, PRACTICES, AND PEDAGOGIES FOR BUILDING EQUITY AND COLLECTIVE JUSTICE | forthcoming, 2023.

“Challenging Academic Ableism by Cripping Pandemic Learning” co-authored with Danielle E. Lorenz. | READING SOCIOLOGY: UNSETTLING A SETTLER COLONIAL PROJECT & RE/WRITING SOCIOLOGICAL NARRATIVES | ed. Johanne Jean-Pierre, et al. | Oxford University Press, 2023.

HISTORICAL QUESTIONS, CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLES: A roundtable of historian-activists | with Travis Hay, Sean Carleton, Elizabeth Best, Mercedes Peters, & Désirée Rochat | Chair: Johanna Lewis | 17 May 2022 | Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting

THEORIZING ACADEMIC CRIP DOULAS & CARE THEFT: An Autoethnographic Approach | with Danielle Lorenz | 28 January 2022 | EDPSGSA University of Alberta

CRIP KNOWLEDGE AND UNIVERSAL DESIGN: The Basics of Empowering Disabled Students & the Value of Crip Knowledge in Higher Ed | 4 March 2021 | UBC History | Workshop

IN PROGRESS: MASTERS THESIS | FACULTY OF ARTS | UBC | 2020-21
“Contaminating Possibilities: Urban Planning, Public Health, and Haunted Settler Colonial, Anti-Indigenous Ableism from 20th Century Tubercular Panic to COVID-19” (Working Title) | Paige Raibmon, Ph.D., Advisor, History Department

HONORS CAPSTONE THESIS | HONORS COLLEGE JMU | 2017-18
“Performing Authentic Savagery: National Myth-Making and Indigenous Survival at American World’s Fairs, 1893-1904” | Raymond M. Hyser, Ph.D., Advisor, History Department

CONTESTED SPACES, CONTESTED IMPACT: 2022 SYMPOSIUM ON GLOBAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT | OFFICE OF REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT | UBC | Vancouver, BC | 2022 | “It’s Note Gender As Usual: Guiding Questions for Gender+ Research” co-authored with Claire Okatch and Elaina Nguyen with Isha Mathur and Ieda Matavelli

INCLUSIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE | CAMBRIDGE CENTRE FOR TEACHING & LEARNING AND DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE | Cambridge, UK (Virtual) | 2021
“Cripping pandemic learning in higher education: Observations from two disabled graduate students in Canada” co-authored with Danielle E. Lorenz

PANDEMIC METHODOLOGIES TWITTER CONFERENCE | CANADIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | Twitter (Virtual) | 2021
“Disability and (Dis)Rupture in Pandemic Learning: Crip Priorities in Research During Global Crisis” co-authored with Danielle E. Lorenz

CANADIAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE | Edmonton, Alberta (Virtual) | 2021
“Challenging Academic Ableism by Cripping Pandemic Learning” co-authored with Danielle E. Lorenz

QUALICUM CONFERENCE | Parksville, British Columbia | 2020
“Willing to be Wrong: Working to Decolonize Our Own Writing in a Case Study on the Louisiana Purchase Exposition”

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH | University of Central Oklahoma | 2018
“Fighting for the Future: Competing Visions of ‘Indianness’ at the Chicago 1893, Omaha 1898, and St. Louis 1904 World’s Fairs”

PHI ALPHA THETA BIENNIAL CONFERENCE | Albuquerque, NM | 2014
“Costumes, Dark Rooms, and Appropriation: Edward S. Curtis and the Repercussions of an Imagined Past”

PHI ALPHA THETA REGIONAL CONFERENCE | Christopher Newport University | 2013
“Indians and Automobiles: Technology and the American Narrative”

HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE |Virginia Tech | 2013
“Challenging the Patriarchy: Gender Equity, Educational Disparities, and Interpersonal Violence in Pakistan”

MADRUSH | JMU | 2012
“Indians and Automobiles: Technology and the American Narrative”

GENERAL EDUCATION STUDENT CONFERENCE | JMU | 2012
“Content and Contempt on Opal Street: African American Identity in Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun“

MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH | Sweet Briar College | 2011“The Baghdad Railway: The Unrealized Nightmare of the Allied Powers”

IRIS XIE, MFA | UC Davis | 2022
“I Am True to My Oscillations.”
Image description author and collaborator with Sarah Cavar for Iris Xie’s final MFA gallery.

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF DISABILITY STUDIES | University of Waterloo | 2020
“Cripping Pandemic Learning in Higher Education: Resources for Instructors”
developed by Hannah S. Facknitz and Danielle Lorenz. | Collaborative project that centers the needs of disabled students in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in four parts.
https://bit.ly/PandemicSyllabiCJDS

Assistant to the Artistic Director Jenna Reid, supporting Kickstart projects to expand disabled artistry in Canada. Kickstart is one of the only disabled-founded organizations run for and by disabled people in Canada, making our programming unique and powerfully positioned to respond most directly to disabled needs.

Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre, world renowned research centre at the UBC School of Nursing under supervision of Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc and Dr. Monica Rana.

• Manager of all centre communications for the dozens of research projects ongoing at SARAVYC.
• Coordinates participant recruitment, education, and publication.
• Manages all social media, website, and print communications, including news coverage.
• Proofreads, edits, and drafts centre communiques for dispersal to participants, stakeholders, and research community.

Consultant to CAN developing two disability history workshops on crip history in British Columbia and Canada. Eventual plan to facilitate these workshops province-wide with particular focus on Vancouver Metro.

Marked final research projects for Dr. Sally Mennill’s HIST 1165 Health and Medicine in History.

Winter Session 2019-2020: Michael Lanthier for the year-long course HIST 103: World History Since 1900. Responsible for fifty students with weekly discussion sections (three sections of 10-18 students). Conducted collaborative research on online pedagogy, implementing findings in transition to online tutorials at the end of the 2019-20 year. Attended monthly training sessions on marking, student mental health, and other topics as ongoing TA training for the department.

Winter Session 2020-2021: Teaching assistant for Dr. Allen Sens, Political Science and International Relations, for the year-long course HIST 425: War & Society. Responsible for all four tutorials for the course and a total of 72 students. The Faculty of Arts was fully remote learning for this year, meaning the entire course took place digitally, requiring me to learn advanced online pedagogy. Responsible for managing and monitoring digital interactions including discussion posts, lecture chats, and weekly discussion groups that blended synchronous and asynchronous pedagogy.

• Hannah, I certainly would. Not only was she the most prepared and organised TA I have ever had … but Hannah encouraged learning at every opportunity. She effectively spurred conversation and polite debate about related course topics, she challenged us to think outside of our own perspective, and she effectively helped us apply course work to very realistic topics we could relate to.”
• “Hannah is one of the best TAs I’ve had. I was consistently excited to attend my tutorial because of Hannah’s energy and ability to create a positive class atmosphere even when dealing with difficult subject matter. With this difficult subject matter, I appreciate Hannah’s proactivity in setting the framework for how we would them and I believe this is why our discussions never got out of hand.”

Winter Session 2020-2021: Teaching assistant for Dr. Allen Sens, Political Science and International Relations, for the year-long course HIST 425: War & Society. Responsible for all four tutorials for the course and a total of 72 students. The Faculty of Arts was fully remote learning for this year, meaning the entire course took place digitally, requiring me to learn advanced online pedagogy. Responsible for managing and monitoring digital interactions including discussion posts, lecture chats, and weekly discussion groups that blended synchronous and asynchronous pedagogy.

Winter Session 2020-2021: Teaching assistant for Dr. Allen Sens, Political Science and International Relations, for the year-long course HIST 425: War & Society. Responsible for all four tutorials for the course and a total of 72 students. The Faculty of Arts was fully remote learning for this year, meaning the entire course took place digitally, requiring me to learn advanced online pedagogy. Responsible for managing and monitoring digital interactions including discussion posts, lecture chats, and weekly discussion groups that blended synchronous and asynchronous pedagogy.

• “Hannah brings a positive attitude in our discussions and creates a respectful environment in class through the chat box. Hannah gives very helpful, individually tailored feedback on our papers, which is a teaching strategy that demonstrates her assiduity and attentiveness to our learning process. Hannah was also flexible with dates and deadlines, and she is understanding of personal problems that affected my life. So, overall, her attitude to students is inspiring!”
• “Hannah has been the best TA I have ever had and has been the highlight of my final year at UBC. Hannah is very knowledgeable, engaging, and kind and has made our discussion group a very safe and comfortable space for students. Hannah is very understanding and receptive to the various barriers impacting students at this time, which has allowed for students to remain engaged in their learning without sacrificing their health. I am sad that Hannah will no longer be my TA. Please give her a nice award or something.”

Winter Session 2020-2021: Teaching assistant for Dr. Allen Sens, Political Science and International Relations, for the year-long course HIST 425: War & Society. Responsible for all four tutorials for the course and a total of 72 students. The Faculty of Arts was fully remote learning for this year, meaning the entire course took place digitally, requiring me to learn advanced online pedagogy. Responsible for managing and monitoring digital interactions including discussion posts, lecture chats, and weekly discussion groups that blended synchronous and asynchronous pedagogy.

Collaboratively developed a Gender+ research/question guide for researches to incorporate intersectional approaches to gender and compounding, interlocking identitary experiences into research design and implementation.

Research assistant to Dr. Paige Raibmon et al. working on the records of the McKenna-McBride Commission.

Research assistant to Dr. Ted McCoy, Department of Sociology, on his SSHRC funded book project exploring the relationships between incarceration, disability, Indigeneity, race, and capitalism in Canadian history. Due to COVID-19, I conducted most of my work for Dr. McCoy through digital archives, providing him with research reports and summaries.

Managed the major administrative and clerical duties of CSPCV. Responsible for creating and managing multiple databases including contact databases and institutional research databases. Created the clerical framework required for functional operation at CSPCV.

• Managed multiple trainings, traveling and providing remote and on-site assistance to professionals, including the American Association of Suicidology.
• Developed five separate contact databases of practitioners and first defense responders at post-secondary institutions in Virginia.
• Created and managed a large database of vital statistics for Virginia post-secondary institutions relating to suicide prevention.

General administrative assistant responsible for managing the digitization of tax records for the Harrisonburg office. Worked closely with preparers on and off site in order to efficiently complete taxation records for the Internal Revenue Service. Managed other clerical duties as assigned, working with comprehensive and complex technologies that interfaced with multi-site projects across the mid-Atlantic. Created training manual for the position for future employees.

Founded and operated own business crafting hand-crocheted items for sale in high quality markets. Organized social media presence, graphic design, advertising, online sales, sales tax & accounting, product design, and event planning.

Worked to help open the new Food Co-op and develop local outreach. Worked with diverse customer serving new immigrant families, food insecure individuals, and other vulnerable populations. Developed field trip opportunities for local children. Managed office duties including accounting, filing, and other bookkeeping.

Ran and organized the youth group of the church, including mission trips, regular meetings, spiritual development, and local service projects.

• Organized two four-day mission trips to D.C. to work with non-profits addressing issues of homelessness.
• Developed new opportunities like semi-local conferences, interfaith work with other youth groups, and multi-year curriculum for racial and religious tolerance.