Hannah Riley is a writer, communications expert, and organizer based in Atlanta, Georgia. She works in nonprofit media, supporting journalists and newsrooms who do reporting on public safety issues. Hannah has over a decade of experience at the nexus of media and the criminal punishment system, working in communications for various nonprofit law offices, most recently as the Communications Director for the Southern Center for Human Rights. Her writing, which has appeared in The Nation, Slate, NBC, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, Inquest, and more, is focused primarily on the harms of policing and incarceration. Hannah was a 2021 New Leaders Council Fellow, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Community Press Collective and The Appeal. She has an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Criminology.