Meet Madison (Mads) Hanna
With a Women’s & Gender Studies minor and Communications major from DePaul University, Mads is a story-obsessed feminist who’s always asking “Why?” She believes storytelling is the key to unloack greater understanding, empathy, and connection in the world. She directed “The Vagina Monologues” for four seasons and raised over $30k to help end violence against women and girls.
She is a Chicago girl at heart and student of the world having having lived abroad for two years while building her brand storytelling and copywriting studio, curated compass. Find her outside advocating for Maine’s lands and hiking with her pup in midcoast Maine.
Five Questions with Mads:
Favorite book: I’ll Give You the Sun” by Jandy Nelson (this book will expand your ability to feel and see in color!)
Woman (dead or alive) to have dinner with: Vivian Maier (google: Finding Vivian Majer documentary…will blow your gorgeous mind)
Favorite feminist anthem: I Get No Joy by Jade Bird
Favorite place to go on a feminist rant: All the Above
Perfect day: Somewhere on the side of a mountain with bottomless coffee, drenched in sunlight, and surrounded by my girlfriends’ belly-laughs.