Hannah Chan
Hannah Chan joined PENCIL over 4 years ago on the Internship team and later moved into the Program Manager role. In her current role as Senior Program Manager, she is responsible for PENCIL’s strategic industry pathway work, focusing on a new initiative with the Pinkerton Foundation and the Mayor’s Office to support public service careers as well as programming for the Legal Industry Advisory Group and other industry specific partnerships. She is interested in project-based learning, workforce development and building diverse talent pipelines for organizations. She graduated from Smith College with a B.A. in History and East Asian Languages & Literature, with a focus on Japanese. Before joining PENCIL, she was an elementary school teacher specializing in ESL at a bilingual school in New Jersey. She spent 5 years in southern Japan on the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Program where she taught high school English and prepared seniors for university. She holds a certification in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and is fluent in Japanese. Hannah is from Honolulu, Hawaii and enjoys fly fishing in her spare time.