Hannah Anousheh

Hannah Anousheh is a lifelong New Yorker who has dedicated herself to fighting for her community and worker power.

In 2020, Ms. Anousheh helped found the East New York Community Land Trust (ENYCLT), which works to stop the displacement of low- and middle-income Black and Brown residents from East New York and Brownsville by taking land out of the speculative market and bringing it under community control. 

Now as ENYCLT’s Campaigns Director, Ms. Anousheh is central to the organization’s work. This includes the recent purchase of a 20-unit rental building where the ENYCLT will work with the existing tenants to manage the building collectively, and eventually become owners of their apartments; a comprehensive resiliency planning in the Jewel Streets section of East New York, where there is severe flooding; no sewer infrastructure and the campaign to abolish the New York City Tax Lien Sale.

Prior to her work with ENYCLT, Ms. Anousheh earned a Master's degree in City and Regional Planning from the Pratt Institute, where she was an ANHD Fellow at Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation and a NYC Environmental Justice Alliance Fellow at Brooklyn Movement Center.

Ms. Anousheh began her career as an organizer and campaign researcher at UNITE HERE!, the international union of hotel and restaurant workers where she supported the organizing of airport concessions and corporate cafeteria workers who were fighting for living wages and safe working conditions. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College and is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science.

Ms. Anousheh states, "I believe that housing is a human right, and I am fighting to live in a world where housing and land meets our needs and is not used for profit. It's an honor of a lifetime to work alongside the many talented organizers and leaders in the East New York CLT and actually be winning concrete victories toward that shared vision.”