Life and career Hannah Stocking was born on February 4, 1992, in Ashland, Oregon, the daughter of Holly and Jon Stocking. She has a sister, Ruby. She is of mainly Greek, but also of Armenian, Ukrainian and Hungarian descent. She attended Ashland High School in Ashland, Oregon, where she was a three-year varsity volleyball player. Afterward, Stocking moved back to California to attend Dominican University of California in San Rafael, where she studied biology and chemistry and continued playing volleyball. She appeared in G-eazy's music video "Tumblr Girls" in 2015 and starred in Blink-182's "She's Out of Her Mind" video in 2016 with Lele Pons and Vale Genta. She also played the role of Anna in Tyler Perry's horror-comedy sequel Boo 2! A Madea Halloween. Stocking partnered in February 2018 with ATTN, a media company focused on creating content surrounding important societal topics, to create science-based videos for her YouTube channel. In April 2018, she created and starred in the official lyric video for Poo Bear, Justin Bieber, and Jay Electronica's single "Hard 2 Face Reality", which also featured Lele Pons. In June 2018, she launched the educational series The Science of Beauty on Instagram's IGTV platform. In 2019, Stocking was the first creator to receive the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Pioneer Award at the United Nations.