Andrew Leon Hanna (born 1991) is an American lawyer, entrepreneur, author, and international human rights advocate.[1] The son of immigrants from Egypt, Hanna was awarded the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs.[2][3][4][5] The book, published by Cambridge University Press, tells the stories of three Syrian women entrepreneurs in the Za'atari refugee camp and of refugee entrepreneurs around the world.[6][7][8][9][10]
Andrew Leon Hanna | |
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 Andrew Leon Hanna at The National Gallery, London, UK | |
| Born | Jacksonville, FL, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard Law School (JD) Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA) Duke University (BA) |
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| Website | andrewleonhanna |
Education edit
Hanna earned his MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was faculty-selected as one of five Siebel Scholars in his class on the basis of academics and leadership, was named an Arjay Miller Scholar for graduating in the top 10% of his class, and was a Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholar.[11][12]
Hanna received a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was a Harvard Defenders student attorney, Harvard Law Review editor, Harvard African Law Association board member, and recipient of the Oberman Prize for Law and Social Change.[2]
He received a bachelor's degree with honors with highest distinction in public policy from Duke University, where he was senior class president, a Robertson Scholar, a Chapel Scholar, and recipient of the Terry Sanford Leadership Award.[13]
Career edit
Hanna is the cofounder of DreamxAmerica, a social enterprise launched at the Harvard Innovation Lab that joins storytelling and impact to highlight and support immigrant, refugee, and first-generation entrepreneurs, including through a partnership with Kiva that has connected small businesses to zero-interest loans during the COVID-19 pandemic.[14][15][16][17] The DreamxAmerica documentary short film premiered in November 2020 in collaboration with PBS Chicago (WTTW), and was nominated for a Chicago Emmy® Award.[18] Hanna previously led the launch of Generation, the global youth employment non-profit founded by McKinsey & Company, in his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida, and founded the national education initiative IGNITE Peer Mentoring.[19]
In 2011, Hanna was one of two American delegates selected by the U.S. State Department to represent the United States at the 7th UNESCO Youth Forum in Paris, France.[20] He was a youth representative to the UN High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda's (later adopted by the United Nations General Assembly as the Sustainable Development Goals) meetings with youth in London, U.K. and Bali, Indonesia.[13]
In December 2019, Hanna was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Law and Policy.[21]
Notable works edit
Nonfiction
- 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Film
- DreamxAmerica (PBS, 2020)
References edit
- ^ "Andrew Leon Hanna". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ a b Trickey, Erick (2018-11-21). "25 Million Sparks: Andrew Leon Hanna '19 on his prize-winning book project". Harvard Law Today.
- ^ "Bracken Bower Prize 2018: excerpts from finalists' proposals". Financial Times. 2018-11-07.
- ^ "Law School student wins Bracken Bower Prize". Harvard Gazette. 2018-11-26.
- ^ Hill, Andrew (2018-11-07). "Bracken Bower Prize 2018: the finalists". Financial Times.
- ^ "Andrew Leon Hanna publishes book "25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs"". Stanford University Knight-Hennessy Scholars. 5 May 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ "Resilience through unspeakable pain and strife". Duke Today. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ "Bracken Bower Prize 2021 — the shortlist". Financial Times. 2021-11-01. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ Theis, Brooke (2022-06-10). "How female entrepreneurship is driving change in refugee communities". Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ "Summer books of 2022: Business". Financial Times. 2022-06-21. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ "Andrew Leon Hanna | Knight-Hennessy Scholars". Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ "MBA Students Honored as 2022 Siebel Scholars". Stanford Graduate School of Business. 6 October 2020. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ a b "Two Duke Alums Win Knight-Hennessy Scholarship". Duke Today. 2019-03-04.
- ^ Garcia, Samuel. "DreamxAmerica Strives To Highlight And Support Immigrant Entrepreneurs Across America". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ "Dreaming across America". Harvard Gazette. 2019-05-14.
- ^ "Andrew Leon Hanna". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ Norden-Bright, Rebecca (2021-07-17). "Partnership helping immigrants in Maine obtain zero-interest business loans". Press Herald. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ DreamxAmerica. PBS. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
- ^ "Andrew Leon Hanna named Knight-Hennessy Scholar". Harvard Law Today. 2019-03-05.
- ^ "Bridging the Youth Gap". Duke Alumni Magazine. 2012-04-01.
- ^ "David Delaney Mayer, 27 and Andrew Leon Hanna, 27". Forbes.