Hannah Jane Sassaman

Media Mobilizing Project

Hannah Sassaman is an organizer living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As the longtime Campaign Director at the Prometheus Radio Project, Hannah helped lead and design the grassroots organizing and legislative strategy that resulted in the passage of the Local Community Radio Act— a bill that will open up the FM dial to potentially thousands more community radio stations nationwide. Hannah is an experienced trainer in communications and legislative planning and strategy, and is currently a strategic development consultant working with her longtime allies at the Media Mobilizing Project. Hannah is a member of the Board of Directors of Allied Media Projects, an adjunct fellow at the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation, the mom of the incredible baby Sara Bela Sassaman Marcus, and the partner of brilliant community programmer Josh Marcus.