Han Powell (they/she) is a multimedia artist and filmmaker joining OHMA from unceded Tocobaga land in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Han graduated from Rollins College in 2018 with a degree in Critical Media and Cultural Studies, and Sexuality, Women’s, and Gender Studies, where they received the Activism and Social Justice Award and Sojourner Truth Award for Combined Academic and Activist Work. Their thesis documentary film, The Pulse of a City, explored the impact of hate-motivated violence on LGBTQ+ bars and clubs in the wake of the Pulse shooting in Orlando, and solidified their belief in storytelling and oral history as a vessel for healing and community-building.

They studied abroad in the Netherlands, where they filmed a documentary centering the experiences of parents raising children in queer, non-nuclear households and highlighting the heteronormative obstacles and limitations of Dutch family law. Han has spent the past three years working in the LGBTQ+ nonprofit field, first as the Pride Coordinator for Equality Florida, then as an LGBTQ+ Program Specialist at Metro Inclusive Health, where they got to realize their dream of planning and directing a queer summer camp.

Their work is grounded in the tradition of queer Southern organizing and movement building, and they believe that recording and learning from our collective histories is one of our most powerful tools for liberation. Han is currently working on an oral history project documenting the stories of queer and trans Floridians doing organizing, activist, and creative work in their communities (queerflorida.life).