Hannah Lawson
Hannah Lawson (CFA’16) of Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, teaches music at Dhahran British Grammar School in Saudi Arabia. After graduating from Bowling Green State University in 2010, Hannah taught in the United States. In 2014, she moved to Saudi Arabia with her husband “with no knowledge of the culture or language,” she says, and with the hope “of self discovery, and has found it.” Hannah’s background in orchestra sparked interest from the administration; she realized the school had the opportunity to have the only running orchestra program on the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. She imports instruments from the United Kingdom, works with local music shops unfamiliar with string instruments, and designs curricula to include orchestra during and after the school day.