Hana Walker-Brown is a multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed interdisciplinary storyteller, activist, and educator whose work lives at the intersection of craft and conscience, balancing journalistic rigor with deep empathy to illuminate the human experience. For Hana, storytelling is a radical act of attention—an invitation to witness, to hold space, and to imagine change. Guided by curiosity and a refusal to be confined to a single category, her practice spans across sound, film, books, and installations. Her work has been recognised by Amnesty International, the Rose d’Or, Peabody, The British Podcast Awards, and the Webby Awards, and has been commissioned by Audible, the BBC, The Guardian, National Geographic, Sony Music, Ventureland, Warner Brothers, and beyond.
She wrote and narrated the New York Times bestselling audiobook The Beautiful Brain, an investigation into Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), and its follow-up A Delicate Game(2022), a searing exploration of brain injury in sport and beyond—now taught on the Neuroscience curriculum at the University of Texas. Beyond her creative output, Hana uses storytelling as a force for good. She has spoken at 10 Downing Street, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Cheltenham Festivals, and Freeda Media, and she lectures in Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London. She also facilitates workshops in Young Adult and Women’s Prisons, harnessing creativity as a tool to help participants regain confidence and agency.
In 2023, Hana was recognised as one of the UK’s Top 50 Influential Neurodivergent Women, and in 2024 she was selected for the prestigious D&AD Creative Equals programme. At the heart of it all, her work asks not just how we tell stories—but how stories can hold us, heal us, and help us leave the world a little better than we found it.
Latest work “In Pieces”
Compassion Coaching
As a trauma informed certified compassion coach, Hana supports people in finding gentler, more sustainable ways to create, live, and lead. Her coaching weaves together her background as an award-winning storyteller and educator with holistic practices rooted in her experience as a 500hr trained yoga and meditation teacher.
Having navigated burnout and grief herself, she understands the courage it takes to pause, to listen inward, and to rebuild. She offers space for clients to reconnect with their voice, body, and their story—integrating creativity with compassionate practices that restore balance. Whether you’re seeking clarity, healing, or renewed direction, her approach is grounded in presence, deep listening, and the belief that transformation begins when we learn to move slower, grow softer, and honour the whole of who we are.
Water has always been a threshold—a space between worlds, where transformation unfolds. But what if the lakes, rivers, and seas we surrender ourselves to are not merely passive bodies, but keepers of our grief, our burdens, our memories?
Loosely structured like a dive; descent, immersion, and resurfacing, I want to create a sound-rich installation piece; a meditation on the human capacity to surrender.
Through lyrical storytelling, first-hand accounts, and evocative sound design, I delve into the ancient and deeply personal relationship between water and memory.
From folklore that speaks of water as a vessel of lost souls to the modern-day rituals of those seeking solace, this piece unearths the stories that sink beneath the surface and explores the invisible echoes of human experience that water holds.
I meet a freediver who silently sinks into the darkest depths to relieve physical pain, an asylum seeker recalls an ocean crossing, while a poet reflects on the symbolism of water, and why we return from it changed.
This piece will be a journey into the unseen currents that connect us —to ourselves, to each other, to the past and Water as more than just an element—but as a witness, a vessel, a force that remembers, home.