Hanifa Farooq is Propel’s VP of Talent. She is a former middle school teacher where she taught humanities in the community of Watts through the Teach for America program.

She later went on to work as a Deputy Director for The Broad Residency where she helped to recruit candidates for a two year program working in public schools nationally.

Most recently, she was the Senior Recruitment Manager at Avenues: The World School supporting campuses across China, Brazil and the US.

She is excited to be at Propel and wishes an organization like this existed as a pathway for her own students when she was a teacher.

Hanifa holds a B.S. in Business from the University of Southern California.