Hannah Gosnell has been a Professor of Geography at the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, since 2019. Additionally, she has served as a Research Consultant for Future West since 2009. She completed her BA in American Civilization from Brown University, her MA and PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado. Prior to her current position, Hannah Gosnell served as a Research Assistant from 1993 to 1996 and as a Professional Research Associate from 2000 to 2006 at University of Colorado, and once served as a Research Consultant of Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project from 2001 to 2002, and serves as a Chair of the Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group and the Rural Geography Specialty Group for the American Association of Geographers, and a Nova Institute Scholar and a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Transformative Change Assessment. She published 74 papers in various journals, with her research interest focusing on transformations to sustainability, agricultural landscape change, rural sustainability, and land and water conservation from a social–ecological systems perspective.