Hanan Mohamed is a contracts manager at Jobs for the Future. In that role, she drafts and reviews agreements with vendors and sub-recipients of both federal and nonfederal grant awards. This involves coordinating with internal and external partners to manage the full life cycle of JFF contracts.
Her skills and areas of expertise include:
- Contracts management
- Vendor relations
- Legal research
- Project coordination
Before joining JFF, Hanan was a contracts administrator at a health care nonprofit in the Chicago area. Previously, she worked at the Office of the Mayor in Los Angeles, where she supported the deputy mayor and the Office of Public Safety during the city’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial justice movement of 2020.
Her undergraduate experiences include internships in local government and advocacy organizations, and at United Nations headquarters.
She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Eritrean American Bar Association, and the Muslim Bar Association of Chicago.
Hanan believes in JFF’s mission of empowering communities with quality jobs and educational opportunities. “There can be no racial justice without economic justice,” she says. Hanan sees her role at JFF as an opportunity to apply both her contracts experience and her interest in labor and employment law and policy.
She has a bachelor’s degree in diplomacy and world affairs from Occidental College. She is a third-year Juris Doctor candidate at Loyola University Chicago’s School of Law.
Outside of work, Hanan enjoys all things health and wellness, traveling, listening to podcasts, and trying new foods.