Larry Hannan is the communications director for State Voices Florida. He is focused on uplifting and educating partner organizations while working with state and national media to draw attention to the issues SVFL and it’s partners are involved in, including voting rights, reproductive and environmental justice and criminal justice reform. 

Larry previously was a media strategist for the Southern Poverty Law Center where he advocated for criminal justice reform and economic justice in the Deep South pushing for decarceration, keeping children out of the adult criminal justice system, Medicaid expansion, the $15 minimum wage, minimum standards for rental properties and bail reform. Before entering the nonprofit world Larry was an award-winning journalist at the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville and the Naples Daily News.