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Killeen Hanson is a writer, researcher, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the founder and editor of the Sobremesa Reading Club, a publication and discussion series organized around an evolving library of individually bound primary sources from voices, viewpoints, and geographies iconic and overlooked. Her ongoing research projects and collaborations explore the power of radical listening, the material culture of utopias, and the relationship between education, publication, and civic engagement.

She previously served as Managing Editor of UNTITLED Magazine, an online publication about art, craft, and lives of creative practice, and helped launch Stanford's Spatial History Lab (now the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis/CESTA) where she examined how railroad expansion in the 19th-century American West changed the way people perceived space and time. Her contributions to Railroaded helped it become a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in History.

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with degrees in English Literature and French Language and earned a dual MFA in Applied Craft + Design from Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Art and Craft.

She currently teaches design research and theory within the School of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design in New York City, and consults as a thought partner and design strategist with individuals and organizations pushing the boundaries of what is and what can be.

Degrees Held

BA English Literature and French, Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa

MFA Applied Craft + Design, Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Art and Craft

Research Interests

radical listening, collective reading, utopias, material culture, the commons, publication as praxis

Portfolio

killeenhanson.com