Hannah Gaber is a journalist, photographer, and avid traveler currently working as a video producer for USA TODAY in Washington, DC. She finished her BFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2004, and worked in portraiture and as a freelance travel and event photographer until returning to school at the University of Arizona in Tucson in 2011. She finished dual MAs in Journalism and Middle Eastern and North African studies and a graduate certificate in Judaic Studies in May of 2016. As an editor, writer and photographer for the University of Arizona student-run magazine El Independiente, her story "TransPlans: The Fresh Faces of Transgender Youth" won second place in the Society of Professional Journalism's Mark of Excellence competition in 2013. Other work while in school and immediately after includes print and photo journalism for the Arizona Daily Star, a radio production internship with Arizona Public Media, and freelance work for The Nation magazine, School Transportation News.

After graduating, Hannah served as a Pulliam Fellow in video journalism with the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, and covered the 2016 presidential elections. After taking a job as a video journalist at the Republic, she drove the U.S.-Mexico border with reporter Laura Gomez and contributed footage, geolocation assistance, and produced the podcast for the USA TODAY Pulitzer Prize-winning multimedia reporting project, The Wall. In 2017-18, she was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholarship to Cyprus to begin a documentary project looking at the culture of crossing the divided island, and after a year there, returned to the U.S. as a video producer with USA TODAY. Projects include the video accompanying an in-depth a look at the criminalization of black girls in schools, video contribution to the USA TODAY Migrants project, and editing the video for the follow-on Detainees project, released in 2019.