Chasing the Unicorn Podcast

Shauna Hann is co-founder of Drunken Unicorn Productions, LLC and the historian, educator, and sensory-practitioner half of a two-practitioner partnership with her husband John Schuster. She brings the experienced working palate of a sensory practitioner with viticulture roots, the historian’s attention to where a practice came from, the chemist’s grasp of what’s happening molecule by molecule, and the professional educator’s discipline around how complex material actually lands with adult learners.

A career adult educator first and a credentialed bourbon practitioner second. 12 years on the faculty of three institutions — the United States Military Academy’s Department of History at West Point (2013–2016) as Instructor and Course Director for History of U.S. Foreign Relations, History of the Cold War, and the cadet core U.S. history sequence; the Army Sustainment University at Fort Lee (2020–2023) as Course Director, Curriculum Developer, and Chair of the Applied Logistics Studies Committee; and currently Assistant Professor at the Command and General Staff College’s Department of Sustainment and Force Management at Fort Leavenworth, where she was named Department Educator of the Year, 2025. Faculty Development Program Level 1 and Level 3 credentialed — qualified to train other faculty, not just lead classrooms.

The historian’s depth: M.A. in History from The Ohio State University, ABD with PhD in progress. Published academic work on early American tavern culture, the social culture of dueling, and the Spanish-American War — a working historian’s depth of practice, not a hobbyist’s reading list.

The sensory practice has a foundation that predates the bourbon work — an undergraduate minor in viticulture (wine-making) from UC Davis, the formal training that built her palate before bourbon credentialing ever entered the picture. That foundation grew into Executive Bourbon Steward credentialing at Stave & Thief Society (same class as John) and a 2026 Bourbon Women SIP Fellowship. Co-host with John on Beyond the Pour, the weekly co-hosted segment on the Chasing the Unicorn podcast. Lead instructor and curriculum architect of the Find Your Unicorn class series.

U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel. 22 years across the Chemical and Logistics branches, with multiple combat tours and assignments across the globe. The chemistry training behind her bourbon work traces back to her time as a Chemical Officer. The service itself is part of the story, not the headline.