Sara Hamdan
Food Systems Manager
(she, her, hers)
Sara Hamdan was raised in the Chicago area, with roots in Palestine. She has experience in community organizing, training, and policy through her time at Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), and the Muslim Power Building Project. Sara is a community organizer who has primarily worked around food justice, immigration, and criminal legal reform.
Sara has worked with community members across Chicago and Illinois to mobilize around issues related to food & health equity, the criminal legal system, racial justice, and immigration. She received a master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice in 2020 and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Sara has been engaged in food systems and health equity work in Chicago for the past ten years. Working closely alongside community members, Sara helped neighborhood food retailers better integrate into the community and expand their inventory, established the first farmers market on the southwest side of Chicago and developed a food coupon pilot in partnership with a local FQHC, and designed a community health worker program that utilizes a community organizing framework.
Food Systems Manager
(she, her, hers)
Sara Hamdan was raised in the Chicago area, with roots in Palestine. She has experience in community organizing, training, and policy through her time at Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), and the Muslim Power Building Project. Sara is a community organizer who has primarily worked around food justice, immigration, and criminal legal reform.
Sara has worked with community members across Chicago and Illinois to mobilize around issues related to food & health equity, the criminal legal system, racial justice, and immigration. She received a master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice in 2020 and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Sara has been engaged in food systems and health equity work in Chicago for the past ten years. Working closely alongside community members, Sara helped neighborhood food retailers better integrate into the community and expand their inventory, established the first farmers market on the southwest side of Chicago and developed a food coupon pilot in partnership with a local FQHC, and designed a community health worker program that utilizes a community organizing framework.
