Hebah Farrag
Grants and Impact Assessment Manager
Hebah Farrag is the Grants and Impact Assessment Manager at Legal Aid at Work (LAAW), where she supports the organization’s efforts to secure and steward institutional funding towards furthering its mission of supporting low-income workers in California by helping to ensure fair treatment in the workplace.
Hebah is the former Associate Director of Grants at PATH (People Assisting the Homeless), where she managed the organization’s multi-million dollar pre-award government grants portfolio, focused on advancing the organization’s steadfast dedication to long-term solutions to homelessness while serving 28,000+ unhoused individuals annually. Prior to joining PATH, Hebah served as the Assistant Director of Research at the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture for 16 years where she managed large grant-funded research projects while pursuing her own research on race, religion, and social change. Projects included the Spiritual Exemplars project, a global initiative on engaged spirituality, which was tasked with collecting 100 profiles of exemplary people working to promote human flourishing, including employment rights and restorative justice advocates like Father Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries.
Hebah has been quoted by a variety of publications, including the Los Angeles Times and Sojourners Magazine. She has written for publications such as The Conversation, The Berkley Forum, Religion Dispatches, On Being with Krista Tippett, and Forced Migration Online. Hebah is a former member of the USC Presidential Muslim Advisory Council, the Aspen Institute’s Racial Justice and Religion Commission within the Inclusive America project, and is the former Assistant Director of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement, an institutional partnership between the CRCC, the Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation and Hebrew Union College.
She is a graduate from the American University in Cairo (AUC) receiving a Master’s in Middle East Studies. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Southern California and a Graduate Diploma in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies from the AUC.