Ross Community Center

Jacqueline Hanoman is the Executive Director of Ross Community Center in Muncie, Indiana. She joined the Ross Community Center in December 2015 to lead the transformation of the organization into a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization after being in academia, working at NGOs and research centers in Venezuela and South Africa. She is passionate about working with people, walking hand in hand with them, and supporting them in carving their path in life by developing their potential. In her diverse roles, she has focused on addressing the challenges of multidimensional poverty and systemic inequities through developing multi-level poverty programs and projects with NGOs, universities, multilateral and international organizations, foundations, governments, and nonprofit organizations. She is the author of the 2018 book Hunger and Poverty in South Africa: The Hidden Faces of Food Insecurity. Jacqueline is a sociologist, educator, and qualitative researcher with a Ph.D. from Purdue University, a Master's in History of the Americas from the Universidad Católica Andres Bello, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies in the Management of Development Projects from the Universidad Metropolitana in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank, Caracas, Venezuela.