Outside of her New-York-City studio, she also founded and now directs NYC SALT, a nonprofit program for underprivileged teens to learn the craft and business of digital photography. Ms. Hansen’s career began in photojournalism with the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Fortune Magazine, and the Seattle Times. She worked as Joe McNally's first assistant for two years, producing The Faces of Ground Zero, a giant polaroid project of the heroes of 9/11. She holds an M.A. at Syracuse University in Visual Communication.