Sara Hahn

Communications Associate,

American Jewish World Service (AJWS)

Sara Hahn hails from Los Angeles, California. She is a communications associate at American Jewish World Service (AJWS), where she writes for the web, print, and press about issues concerning Judaism and social justice.

Prior to moving to New York, she spent seven months in India as a World Partners Fellow, where she volunteered for a women's rights organization in Mumbai.

Sara studied abroad in Ireland and Turkey in college, and has previously worked for the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., and for the International Rescue Committee in San Diego, California.

She graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, San Diego, in 2005 with a degree in world literatures and Middle East studies. Sara is a graduate of the AJWS-Avodah Selah Leadership Institute, the Jewish Community Relations Council's Cross-Cultural Communications Training, and NYU Bronfman's Jewish Learning Fellowship.