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We champion narratives that dare the world to imagine differently.
We champion narratives that dare the world to imagine differently.
What we do and with whom
What we do and with whom
We believe the way we communicate should be as radical as the world we are working to create.
We're your partners in building the world you want to see, because it's one we want to help bring into being too.
We work with those shaping our world, whether you're an individual, an organization, part of a larger movement, or the café around the corner. We want to meet you at your point of influence.
Too often, organizations communicate through inherited frameworks that don't reflect their values. They adopt communication shaped by systems built on extraction, exploitation, and exclusion.
We know there's another way.
We listen for the narratives already present in the futures you fight for, in your communities, your lived experience, and the ways you make meaning of the world. From there, we bring them into focus, shaping them into strategies, experiences, and communication that cultivate agency, belonging, and possibility.
Because narratives are infrastructure for systemic change, they shape what people believe is possible.
If you're building a just future, let's build the world for it together.
Narratives are infrastructure for systemic change.
Narratives are infrastructure for systemic change.
Meet Hanna Haile
Meet Hanna Haile
My work began in rural Ethiopia as a qualitative researcher, spending years with women and girls whose lives were often represented in reports and policies, but rarely understood on their own terms. It was my first lesson in narrative power and what happens when people's ability to define themselves on their own terms is taken away.
Since then, my work has moved across grassroots movements, community-led cultural initiatives, and global technology ecosystems. Whether supporting emerging technologies seeking to bank the unbanked and connect the unconnected, or grassroots feminist groups reclaiming narratives of peace in post-war realities, I kept encountering the same truth: every effort to create change is also a struggle over meaning.
That understanding became the foundation of Wanza.
I believe narratives shape what we believe is possible. They influence who belongs, whose knowledge matters, and the futures we are able to imagine together. Lasting change requires more than new policies, products, or programmes. It requires new ways of seeing ourselves, one another, and the world we are capable of creating.
Hanna Haile , Founder, Wanza Narrative Studio
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