Siera Hanks

Siera Rayne Hanks is a community worker, and artist from Louisville, Kentucky. She is a law student at the University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law. Siera graduated from Centre College in 2018, where she interned with the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar, and with Amnesty International in Washington DC. Siera was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at Ider University in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and with Amnesty International Mongolia. Siera was the Youth Services Coordinator for Kentucky Refugee Ministries from 2022-2025. She farms a three- sisters crop with Sustainable Agriculture Louisville. Siera is a member at the Beechmont Community Center Pottery where she creates new ritual objects in clay. She lives with her partner, Shahrukh and her two cats Dibby and Shmi-Shmon.