Hana grew up in Big Bear Lake California, where she learned to ski and snowboard at a young age. Snowboarding eventually became her preferred sport and she started competing in high school as an amateur in USASA events. After a year in college she made the move to Mammoth Lakes where she kicked off her pro career in snowboarding after attending and getting noticed at Snowboarder Magazines' Super Park in the spring of 2001. Hana really discovered the joy of backcountry in 2003, where she would use every opportunity between contests to get out on her snowmobile and learn all she could about filming in the backcountry.
After a successful decade of competitive snowboarding, which includes World championships Gold, US Open Slopestyle Gold, 3 X-Games Slopestyle silvers, X-Games Real Snow Bronze Medal, and many others, she committed herself to backcountry riding and filming projects. She has graced the covers of both Transworld Snowboarding (2007) and Snowboarder Magazine (2009), and won Female Rookie of the Year (2002) and Female Rider of the Year twice (2007, 2013).
Now, Hana spends her seasons chasing winter and filming backcountry freestyle parts for movies like INTERVALS, Fullmoon, and Listen to the Eyes. She recently returned to competition for the Natural Selection Tour where she has podiumed several times including a First place finish at the Tordrillo, AK stop in 2022. After a knee injury last spring she plans to get back out filming this season while also preparing for her return to the Natural Selection Tour.