About
Who is Hannah Stombler-Levine?
Hannah Stombler-Levine, also known as Hannah Ayla, is a multi-award winning visual designer with over 15 years of experience working with some of the world’s most renowned brands. Hannah’s specialities include product photography, food photography, illustration, and brand design. Her true passion, however, lies in giving back to her local community; In addition to Hannah’s vast portfolio of work, she is actively involved in countless organizations that aim to ensure better treatment and policies for children in the foster care system and beyond.
For the past 7 years Hannah has been a volunteer foster youth advocate through the Dependency Court in San Francisco. Throughout this journey Hannah has generated fundraisers which raised thousands of dollars to support the youth assigned to her with opportunities for educational advancement and access to mental health services unsupported by the courts. Hannah was even recently named Advocate of the Month for July 2023!
In addition to her work with CASA, Hannah recently joined the Legislative Advocacy Team (LAT) to provide a voice to San Francisco’s foster youth and assist policy makers and lawmakers at a state level to help protect the children involved in the state’s welfare system.
Hannah also interned for Judge Susan Breall and spent the summer researching the best practices of CSEC (Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children) courts in the United States. Many of these findings emphasized the unfair treatment of youth of color that disproportionately end up in these enhanced courts, and the racist history of the foster care system as a whole, which fueled Hannah’s drive to want to do more for the children of her community.
On top of all the hands-on work she does, Hannah Stombler-Levine also regularly uses her social media accounts (which can be found under her professional alias “Hannah Ayla”) to advocate for social causes that are near to her heart. Hannah often creates videos to generate more awareness on topics such as institutionalized racism, the school to prison pipeline, and the common myths/facts surrounding the foster care system.