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.
Mohammed
Community Lead
Holds relationships and delivery across the community, connecting people to the hubs and the wider ecosystem of support.
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.
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.
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.