Abdirahim Hassan
Founder
Set up Coffee Afrik CIC in 2018 after twenty years organising communities and campaigning about housing injustice across East London. BBC 1Xtra Future Figure 2023. Cambridge Social Innovation Prize 2025.
Team
Led by lived experience.
Founders, leads, organisers and researchers, recruited from the communities we serve.
Simeera Hassan
Women's Development Consultant
Poet, artist and community organiser. Co-built Coffee Afrik from the original Crisis Cafe. Builds capacity at the Hackney and Tower Hamlets Women's Hubs.
Hafsa
Office Manager
Anchors the operations and infrastructure of the organisation. Office, finance, HR, logistics — the unglamorous work that lets everyone else do theirs.
Javie
Artivism Lead
Leads Coffee Afrik's Artivism and Creative Organising programmes — using creativity, storytelling, public art and cultural production as tools for community transformation.
Bashir
Father's Hub Lead
Runs the Father's Hub, a physical space for fathers, uncles, brothers and the men who hold communities together. Weekly gatherings for connection, mentorship and shared care.
Abdirizak
Father's Hub Deputy, Hackney
Supports the Father's Hub in Hackney, holding space for fathers, uncles and the men who hold families together.
Mohammed
Community Lead
Holds relationships and delivery across the community, connecting people to the hubs and the wider ecosystem of support.
Sulekha
Programme Lead, Hackney
Leads programme delivery across the Hackney hubs, holding the day-to-day work and the people who make it happen.
Mace
Programme Lead, Tower Hamlets
Leads programme delivery across Tower Hamlets, connecting hubs, partners and community.
Daud
Senior Youth Worker
Senior Youth Worker across both Youth Hubs. Holds the front line on safety, wellbeing and youth leadership.
Abdallah
Senior Youth Worker
Senior Youth Worker. Mentors young people through leadership, social action and the Peer Action Collective.
Anas
Deputy Senior Youth Worker
Deputy Senior Youth Worker. Day-to-day delivery, session leadership, and peer support across the Youth Hub.
Amir
Deputy Senior Youth Worker
Deputy Senior Youth Worker. Supports leadership pathways, safeguarding and group facilitation.
Rahma
Health Justice Lead
Develops and coordinates workshops on health justice and wellbeing for women and young people. Care, repair and liberation through an equity and anti-racism lens.
Zakeriya
Senior Peer Action Collective Lead
Leads the Peer Action Collective, mentoring young people into research, social action and leadership.
Sibgah
Senior Peer Action Collective Lead
Leads the Peer Action Collective alongside a team of young researchers and organisers.
Fowzia
Faith Teacher, Hackney
Teaches and holds faith spaces at the Hackney hubs, rooting the work in knowledge, reflection and belonging.
Zainab
Faith Teacher, Tower Hamlets
Teaches and holds faith spaces at the Tower Hamlets hubs.
Farah
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Lead
Holds the organisation's learning: measuring impact, listening to community, and turning evidence into better practice.
Jade
Wellbeing Lead
Holds the wellbeing of the team and the community, keeping care at the centre of the work.
Mariam
Growing & Community Team
Growing and community team member. Holds space at the women's hub for healing, connection and shared meals.
Ayan
Growing & Community Team
Growing and community team member across both Women's Hubs.
Katra Mahamoud
Tower Hamlets Women's Hub Lead
Holds the Tower Hamlets Women's Hub. Listens first; designs the response with the women who actually need it.
Dr Farah Bede
Clinical Consultant & Leadership Advisor
Freelance clinical consultant and leadership advisor, supporting Coffee Afrik's health justice practice and organisational leadership.
The wider team
Held by many hands.
Beyond our leads sits a wider team of youth workers, peer researchers, board members and stewards, most recruited from the community, many of them young people leading the work themselves.
16
Youth Workers
Across the SPW Youth Hub and the Attlee Centre, eight at each.
8
Peer Action Collective
Young researchers and organisers, led by our Senior PAC Leads.
5
Governance Board members
On our Youth Accountability and Governance Boards.
5
Youth Stewards
Overseeing mediation, restorative justice, wellbeing and systems change.
From the community
More than a staff list. A community.
Our team is drawn from the people we serve. This is what community, leadership and belonging look like in practice.
Youth Hub
Co-designing the work with the young people it serves.
Women's Hub
Space held by women, for women, in the community garden.
Artivism
Creativity and care as tools for healing.
Currently recruiting
Six new leadership & infrastructure roles.
We are growing leadership and infrastructure across the ecosystem. If your skills, lived experience or sector knowledge could strengthen this work, get in touch, even before a role is formally advertised.
Operations Lead
Holds the operational backbone, finance, HR, infrastructure, systems.
Design & Graphics Lead
Leads visual identity across hubs, campaigns, reports and digital.
Programme Lead
Leadership across one of our hub or programme strands.
Infrastructure Lead
Building organisational and movement infrastructure, strategy, governance, mediation.
Community Organising Lead
Anchoring our base-building, campaigns and coalitions work.
Plus one more
A sixth role currently being scoped with community partners. Insha'Allah.
Want to join us?
Coffee Afrik recruits from the community first. Lived experience is the qualification we look for.