Shedding Conventions at Mid-Life | Hannah Van Sickle | TEDxStLawrenceU

A personal crisis can affect many aspects of our lives, including forcing us to take a bold look at the norms and expectations that society has imposed upon us. Hannah Van Sickle, a St. Lawrence University alumna, Class of 1996, shares her journey of challenging the authenticity of an individual under a press of societal roles, and of shedding those conventions to be her true self.
Hannah Van Sickle Barrett ‘96 is a freelance writer who hails from the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. After graduating from St. Lawrence University, where she was a member of KDS and a participant in the Vienna semester abroad program, she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where she spent two years as a personal assistant to acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. She eventually followed the path, tread by her parents before her, to a boarding school in the Berkshires where she became a teacher. After more than ten years teaching English, in both public and private high schools, Hannah turned her attention to raising a family of three daughters while concurrently earning her Master’s degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Today, she can be found working with students as an academic tutor at Berkshire School, mentoring individuals through the college application process as a writing coach, and writing for several regional publications including Berkshire Magazine

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