Community Organizing and Leadership

President, League of Women Voters of Cape Ann  2015-Present

• Spearhead advocacy campaigns, public forums, voter engagement efforts, and moderate debates
• Empower voters and strengthen democracy for all on Cape Ann, MA.

C0-president, Women’s Equality Cape Ann (WECANN)  2016-Present

• Founding member of a Cape Ann intersectional feminist women’s group (with nearly 400 members) covering current events affecting local people, hosting public events, lobbying representatives, and remaining active participants in our democracy.

Appointed Chair/Vice Chair, City of Gloucester Human Rights Commission  2020-Present

• Improve the life of city by enlisting individuals and community-based groups in educational programs and campaigns to increase mutual self-respect, harmonious intergroup relations 
• Assist persons in the city who believe that their human or civil rights, as defined by existing local, commonwealth and federal law, have been violated in the City

Member, Housing 4 All Gloucester, 2023 – Present

• Advocate for housing affordability and public education
• Support the creation of housing that is affordable 

Education

PhD, English (Rhetoric and Textual Studies) – Old Dominion University
MA, Education – University of New Mexico
BA, History and Latin American Studies – University of New Mexico
Gifted Education Endorsement – University of Virginia
Additional Study – National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City): Spanish Language & Mexican Art History 

Media and Publications

Speaker/panelist on PBS’s American Masters, NPR, Chronicle, and national conferences on women’s history, writing, and education

Hannah Kimberley and Harvey Lankford, MD: “Supplemental Oxygen on the Annie Smith Peck Expedition of 1903 to 6,367 m (20,892 ft) Mount Sorata (Illampu)” in High Altitude Medicine and Biology Journal, 2025

Hannah Kimberley: A Woman’s Place Is at the Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, St. Martin’s Press, 2017

Julia Romberger and Hannah Kimberley. “Nurturing Mother Nature: An Ecofeminist Perspective on the Visual Rhetoric of Environmental Activism.” International Journal of the Image. 1.3 (2011): 39-52.

Hannah Kimberley and David Metzger. “Writing in the Third Space from the Sun: A Pentadic Analysis of Discussion Papers Written for the UN Forum on Forests.” Rhetorics, Literacies and Narratives of Sustainability. Ed. Peter Goggin. New York: Routledge, 2009. 39-54.

(Rhetorics, Literacies and Narratives of Sustainability was positively reviewed by M. Jimmy Killingsworth in Rhetoric Review, 29.3 (2010): 318-322.

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