Hannah N. Jones
Hannah Naomi Jones is a Revolutionary Thinker, a thought leader, who has the power to generate new thoughts and reorganize existing ideas to change the world.
Hannah is a mentor, facilitator, trainer and advocate at heart. She is known as a dynamic speaker and has presented at conferences, leading countless workshops, classes around equity and access, leadership, advocacy, effective program design, marketing, brand building and social impact. She's been featured in publications, received awards and recognitions for her community work. Hannah is a small business owner, womanpreneur and mother of two who leads from her narrative. She is a high energy visionary and a developer of people, who dreams BIG.
Hannah has always believed she is purposed to develop people and help them discover what they have come here in this world to do! This has led to her commitment to teaching people how to lead from their why - developing people, organizations and spaces and teaching them how to use their influence bring about sustainable change.
She teaches how to shift paradigms of social institutions and provides insight on power, privilege and oppression and offers fundamental self-reflection and mind shifting work. This work has led to the development and design of equitable, diverse and inclusive impactful programs through collective empowerment and bringing leaders to the table, giving them opportunities to lead. She welcomes difficult dialogue and enjoys bridging and building the community and uplifting dynamic world changers through her platforms and with her influence.
Part of her methodology Is rooted in fundamental, impactful and effective human centered design programming. She has worked with organizations to build programs for marginalized communities such as reading programs, after school programs, mentorship programs, scholarship programs, music and arts programs, leadership programs and more.
She focuses on authentic branding and amplifying impact through effective marketing and communications for social changers and is responsible for personal brands of leaders.
Born and raised in Southern California, Hannah worked as a passionate grassroots bridge builder. As a first generation college student, she credits education as her ticket out of intergenerational poverty and out of lack of access and opportunity worked to connect education to the community. Hannah has worked in higher education administration for over a decade working for the California Community College System, the California State University (CSU) system, the University of California (UC) system and the Orange County Department of Education (OCDE). She led educational equity work developing P-20 student retention and college access framework, methods, programs and tools used today. She has led and hosted local and system wide programs, events and initiatives, developing campus wide & community-based partnerships advocating for access of high opportunity youth, serving as an advisor to campus organizations that are transforming how we see students, such as Underground Scholars, an student initiated organization for students who have been impacted by incarceration, championing restorative justice.
Spending much of her time in the community she works closely with government and community officials, small businesses, non profit organizations, church and faith based organizations to advocate for the voiceless and marginalized communities with a goal to eradicate oppressive policy and create equitable and impactful policy.
She has served as a creative director focusing on the elevating organizations through creative marketing, branding and public relations initiatives and has now brought all of her energy from the west coast to the east coast, enthusiastically serving as the first communications and marketing director for the largest AME church in the world located in Maryland under the direction of social changer Rev. Dr. Mark E. Whitlock Jr. focusing on innovative strategies around communications, marketing, brand development, effective program design, storytelling and capturing social impact and amplifying the work of the organization to expand their reach.
BELIEVE! Hannah Naomi Jones BELIEVES that everybody is a genius and has the innate gifts and potential to solve at least one problem in this world. Lead with me! Hannah calls upon the the collective power of everyone's influence to heal our communities.
Hannah accepts as true there are people who are capable of changing the world and are greater than their current circumstances. Her methodology to her service and acting as a catalyst of change derives from her experience of being in the same circumstance as the very person she strives to help.
She encourages you to name your world by reflecting on your conditions, imagining a better world, and then take action to create it. Like Paulo Frier states, “We must understand systems of oppression in order to transform them. Dialogue, respect, love for humanity, praxis and reflection are required to transform the world.”
