Hannah Chan

Hannah Chan started in 2019 on the Internship team and has held various roles at PENCIL. She currently oversees all school partnership programming as well as the Public Sector Pathways Program, an internship program dedicated to public service careers, in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office and the Pinkerton Foundation. She is interested in project-based learning, workforce development and building diverse talent pipelines for organizations. 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 graduated from Smith College with a B.A. in History and East Asian Languages & Literature. Hannah is from Honolulu, Hawaii and enjoys fly fishing in her spare time.