About Hanson Hosein

Hanson Hosein is an award-winning storyteller and communication leader. As the President of HRH Media Group LLC, he creates narratives that spark change, particularly during times of turbulence and transformation.

His most recent work is focused on revitalizing America’s democratic franchise, recalibrating support for families most in need, and reimagining higher education’s trajectory. Hanson co-hosts the University of Washington’s podcast “Learn/Earn/Re-Learn” and is the voice of Microsoft’s internal podcast, “Unscripted.” His “Wind Rose Declaration: 16 Tenets for Real-Time Leadership” guides these present endeavors.

As an early practitioner of multimedia storytelling, Hanson worked as an NBC News Emmy and Overseas Press Club award-winning journalist in the Middle East and Balkans, a solo TV war correspondent for MSNBC and CBC in the Persian Gulf, and a documentary director whose “Independent America” films were streamed and broadcast worldwide. Hanson’s book, “Storyteller Uprising: Trust and Persuasion in the Digital Age,” encapsulated his journey and methodology from that period.

Later, as he led the creation of the UW Communication Leadership graduate program, Hanson was recognized as Seattle’s “Most Influential.” He hosted the inaugural TEDx Seattle and convened groundbreaking interactions on innovation with the CEO founders of Amazon, Starbucks, Costco, Intellectual Ventures, Iterable and the Future Today Institute.

Hanson is a trustee for CETI — A Creative and Emergent Technology Institute, an advisor to Factal, a breaking news and risk intelligence startup and a senior foresight analyst to the vice provost of Continuum College at the University of Washington. He has law degrees from McGill University and the University of Paris, and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.