Hannah Young is the Director of Audience at The Center for Investigative Reporting, leading the organization’s digital and social efforts. Using human-centered design, she and her team work to find new ways to expand the reach of CIR’s journalism and engage more meaningfully with audiences across platforms.

Previously, Hannah was a Butler Koshland Fellow at CIR focusing on creative engagement approaches in public journalism. Before that, Hannah worked at Code for America, where she led the Brigade program and grew it to a network of more than 50,000 civic tech volunteers in more than 80 cities across the U.S. During her time there, Brigade was responsible for nearly two thirds of total growth in the civic tech community in the country.

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