Hannah Sternberg works with news reporters and producers to expedite and improve radio and television coverage of national and international events in which Heritage Foundation analysts are leading experts.

Sternberg specializes in the education reform and school choice issues encompassed by the think tank’s Education initiative. Her posts on children’s struggles to escape D.C. public schools, one of the worst districts in the nation, have appeared on The Foundry, Heritage’s rapid-response policy blog. She has booked experts on education and other topics to appear on news outlets ranging from CNN to Fox News Channel to NPR.

Sternberg joined Heritage’s Communications division as broadcast technician in February 2010. In that capacity she has assisted in broadcasting major national and local radio shows and a variety of recordings for television and documentary films.

She previously was a Maffucci Fellow at the Institute for Justice, a libertarian law firm based in Arlington, Va., that defends economic liberty, property rights, school choice and free speech. Her experience there included helping to organize a rally at the Capitol of more than 3,000 students, teachers, parents and other supporters of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, to counter the Obama administration’s defunding proposal.

While at IJ, Sternberg also built a webpage explaining the privileges or immunities clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and helped research regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship. She earlier interned at The Weekly Standard, the Washington-based journal of politics.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in film and media studies from Johns Hopkins University, concentrating on video production and creative writing. A published novelist, she also is co-owner of Istoria Books, a small e-publisher of fiction and contributes blog posts on the arts to PJ Media.com.

Sternberg, who grew up in Rutland, Vt., currently resides in Washington, D.C.