Hannah Loewith has been working with R-SEAT since its inception. She is a graduate of the Master of Migration & Diaspora Studies program at SOAS University, where she wrote her thesis analyzing responses towards different refugee crises. She is also a graduate of the Master of Global Affairs program at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto. There, she studied Human Rights and Global Justice, and Global Policy and Asia. She received her Honours Specialization in Political Science which focussed on International Policy and Regional Politics from Western University, where she also holds a Minor in Transitional Justice and Post Conflict Reconstruction.

During her studies, she had the opportunity to study at the National University of Singapore which fostered her interest in South East Asian politics. Some of her interests are refugee rights, food sovereignty, anticolonialism, and the intersection between power and accountability.