Hana Truscott

I’m your host, Hana Truscott. Some call me Hana T. (Хана Т.).

I am a storyteller, descended from generations of storytellers before me, and an educator committed to social change. My work focuses on supporting adults to develop the skills and awareness needed for a pluriverse—what the Zapatistas described as “a world in which many worlds fit.” Just as ecological ecosystems depend on biodiversity to remain healthy, social ecosystems also flourish through biodiversity. Yet colonization and globalization have attempted to enforce a single dominant way of being, knowing, and doing—a universal “one-world world”—eroding both ecological and cultural biodiversity in the process.

I situate myself as a white U.S. American woman with European immigrant ancestry, embedded within histories and structures of whiteness and settler colonialism. I approach my work with a commitment to ongoing self-reflection, accountability, and responsibility for past and present harms. I have witnessed how the “one-world” worldview harms everyone, though in profoundly unequal ways—impacting people racialized as Black, Indigenous, and other people of color differently than those racialized as white.

To counter this legacy, my work centers on unlearning this conditioning and making room for multiple ways of knowing, being, and relating to re-emerge. For more than twenty years, I have engaged in this process personally, and for the past twelve years I have supported multiracial groups of adults in similar work. My approach draws on adult-centered learning that honors lived and embodied experience, cultural humility, critical intercultural practices, and the belief that discomfort can be a powerful teacher. At its heart, my work serves the collective imagining and co-creation of more just, decolonial futures. Within the broader social change ecosystem, I move as a storyteller, visionary, and disrupter—challenging dominant narratives while amplifying ancestral, land-connected, and spirit-aligned wisdoms. I believe in the power of collective consciousness shifts and ground my work in daily spiritual and contemplative practices that root me in my values and remind me of my responsibility to more-than-human kin (ancestors, Mama Nature). These rituals sustain me as I navigate life with chronic illness, which has become a teacher in how to honor the body as a site of knowledge.

This podcast emerged from a Reimagining Whiteness community study that I conducted in summer 2023 as part of my graduate program in Depth Psychology, with a specialization in community, liberation, Indigenous, and eco-psychologies. For the purpose of this study, I convened 26 co-researchers through a focus group and interviews. They are people I met throughout 40 years of life, work, (un)learning, and service. This podcast is an invitation into those shared conversations and stories.