Hannah Merriman is an artist, advocate, and educator based in San Rafael. Deeply moved by the power of socially engaged art to restore community, stir the soul, and unleash our collective ingenuity, Hannah is inspired to serve creative initiatives that deliver art’s regenerative potential. She earned her BA from Oberlin College and a Masters degree from Harvard Divinity School, where she created an interdisciplinary program in theology, community transformation, and visual art. Hannah has worked as creative director of the Global Oneness Project, and now she teaches in the Art Education department at the Academy of Art University while raising her two young children. Hannah’s current collaborations are as a founding “cultural agent” of the US Department of Arts and Culture, an emerging citizen-powered movement lifting up the arts as the cornerstone of authentic and resilient communities; and as co-founder of Fortnight, a local women’s collective in San Rafael committed to creating dialogue through the arts around local issues of environment, social segregation, and downtown revitalization. Hannah’s drawings and installations have been shown in exhibitions in both the Bay Area and her home state of Massachusetts, and her spontaneous social art happenings draw the public into participatory experiences of beauty and reverence.