{"id":1856,"date":"2025-03-05T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2025-02-26T11:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:23:46","slug":"mcc-proud-meet-hanan-gahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/05\/mcc-proud-meet-hanan-gahi\/","title":{"rendered":"MCC Proud: Meet Hanan Gahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hanan Gahi, Program Director of TRIO Student Support Services, has been working at Monroe Community College (MCC) since Fall 2021.<\/p>\n<p>As a student, Gahi excelled at college, earning her bachelor\u2019s degree in business. However, she later realized that business was not her true passion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had initially chosen the major to support my husband&#8217;s business, hoping to contribute effectively,\u201d she said. \u201cHowever, after graduation, I took a one-year gap to deeply explore my interests.\u201d Ultimately, Gahi wanted to pursue a field that aligned with her personality while also helping college students avoid the uncertainty she experienced (due to a lack of proper guidance) as a first-generation student.<\/p>\n<p>Through her exploration, Gahi discovered the Higher Education Student Affairs Administration program at Nazareth University\u2014appropriate for her aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>The career choice was a perfect fit! In fact, Gahi received two promotions within her first year at TRIO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI initially joined the organization as a part-time Academic Coach, and after four months, I was promoted to a part-time Program Advisor by the Director of the Learning System, Jason Parker,\u201d she said. Three months later, Gahi advanced to a full-time role as Program Coordinator. After serving in this role for a year, she was promoted to director of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Gahi has even been selected for the President&#8217;s Emerging Leaders Fellowship (PELF) training.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Gahi is proud of the tremendous growth of the TRIO program. She recalls seeing a first-generation student who struggled academically transform into a confident graduate (with job offers) who later returned to offer her support to other students.<\/p>\n<p>She was also honored to be recognized by her students and have their kind words shared via the <em>Daily Tribune<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what advice she would give current students, Gahi said, \u201cTake advantage of the available resources like advising, tutoring, counseling, career services, transfer services and more.\u201d She also encouraged those considering enrolling at MCC to explore the campus and ask questions.<\/p>\n<p>Gahi, a mother of four, graduated from MCC with an A.S. in Business Administration in 2014. She also received a B.S. in International Business from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2016. She later earned her M.S. in Higher Education Student Affairs Administration at Nazareth University in 2020. She is currently working on her doctoral degree in Educational Administration (Higher Education Specialization) at the University of Rochester. She is set to graduate in Spring 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FUN FACTS ABOUT HANAN:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Courtney: If you had to eat the same meal at least once a day, what would it be?<\/li>\n<li>Hanan: Vegetables<\/li>\n<li>Courtney: What is your favorite movie?<\/li>\n<li>Hanan: The Upside<\/li>\n<li>Courtney: What is your favorite sports team?<\/li>\n<li>Hanan: I&#8217;m not super into sports, but I love the energy of a good game!<\/li>\n<li>Courtney: What is your biggest fear?<\/li>\n<li>Hanan: The impact of the media, AI, and the technology on how we like to raise our children<\/li>\n<li>Courtney: Is there anything about you that people are surprised to learn?<\/li>\n<li>Hanan: That I&#8217;m balancing a full-time job, parenting, and finishing my doctoral degree. English is my 4<sup>th<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Courtney: If you could attend a dinner with any celebrity, living or dead, who would you choose?<\/li>\n<li>Hanan: Oprah<\/li>\n<li>Courtney: Do you prefer staying up late or waking up early in the morning?<\/li>\n<li>Hanan: Staying up late<\/li>\n<li>Courtney: Share the best piece of advice anyone has ever given you.<\/li>\n<li>Hanan: The degree is not everything you need experience<\/li>\n<li>Courtney: What destination do you hope to visit one day?<\/li>\n<li>Hanan: Switzerland<\/li>\n<li>Courtney: What activities do you participate in over the weekend?<\/li>\n<li>Hanan: Shopping or watching a long movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_1857\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1857\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1857\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Hanan-Gahi-updated-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hanan Gahi leaning on a railing and smiling at the camera while wearing black and white attire.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Hanan-Gahi-updated-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Hanan-Gahi-updated-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Hanan-Gahi-updated-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Hanan-Gahi-updated-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Hanan-Gahi-updated-1367x2048.jpg 1367w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Hanan-Gahi-updated-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Hanan-Gahi-updated-scaled.jpg 1709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanan Gahi<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanan Gahi, Program Director of TRIO Student Support Services, has been working at Monroe Community College (MCC) since Fall 2021. As a student, Gahi excelled at college, earning her bachelor\u2019s degree in business. However, she later realized that business was not her true passion. \u201cI had initially chosen the major to support my husband&#8217;s business, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[121,107],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcc-proud","tag-hanan-gahi","tag-staff-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}