Andrew Leon Hanna

At-a-Glance

Author of "25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs," named a Financial Times Best Book of the Year.
Co-founder of Mona, an AI-powered fintech platform connecting underbanked small businesses to affordable loans and grants.
Co-founder of DreamxAmerica, a social enterprise supporting immigrant, refugee, and first-generation entrepreneurs, recognized on Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas List.
Adjunct Professor and Executive-in-Residence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he teaches the Global Social Entrepreneurship Lab.
Served in the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
Earned an MBA with honors from Stanford Graduate School of Business as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and a JD with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Biography

Andrew Leon Hanna is an American lawyer, entrepreneur, author, and professor. He is the co-founder of Mona, an AI-powered fintech platform that connects underbanked small business entrepreneurs to affordable loans and grants. Hanna also serves as an adjunct professor and executive-in-residence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he designed and teaches the Global Social Entrepreneurship Lab.