Hannah Rose Groedel is the Program Manager of the Impacted Leaders Initiative, which provides leadership opportunities for formerly incarcerated people. This new initiative empowers participants through skill development, relationship building, mentorship, and field experience; and is underpinned by the belief that those most affected by incarceration are best positioned to lead our movements for social change.
Before joining Parole Project, Hannah Rose worked with the Tulane Law School Women’s Prison Project to address the abuse-to-prison pipeline. Using trauma-responsive restorative justice practices, Hannah Rose collaborated with inmate counsel at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women to provide legal education, develop resources, and facilitate learning exchanges between incarcerated legal experts and law students.
After graduating from Tulane Law School in 2015, Hannah Rose spent six years working with Southeast Louisiana Legal Services advocating for survivors of violence. Her experience as an attorney who has advocated both for people who have been harmed and people who have caused harm has shaped her professional identity and informs her commitment to challenging legal system binaries and amplifying marginalized voices.
Hannah Rose is also a co-founder of RISE Collective, a grassroots movement in New Orleans. RISE builds an empowered community of families and loved ones impacted by incarceration through community resources, legal support, political education, and healing justice. In her free time, Hannah Rose enjoys gardening, reading science fiction, and spending time with her cat, Fela Kitty.