Hannah Weatherford

Hannah Weatherford serves as a key procurement lead within the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, supporting the agency’s mission to rebuild equitable and resilient education systems across the region. She manages the acquisition of technical assistance, capacity-building services, and institutional partnership programs designed to strengthen post-pandemic learning environments, with a focus on marginalized and gender-equitable outcomes. Her acquisitions typically involve complex, performance-based contracts for educational diagnostics, curriculum development, teacher training, and digital learning infrastructure, aligning closely with USAID’s strategic priorities in inclusive education recovery. While specific contractor names are not publicly disclosed, Weatherford’s procurement patterns reflect a balanced engagement with both large international development firms and domestic small businesses, fostering collaborative partnerships grounded in technical expertise and local contextual knowledge. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance metrics, adaptive management, and results-driven service delivery, often requiring vendors to demonstrate prior experience in Latin American and Caribbean education contexts. Weatherford exhibits a strong commitment to socioeconomic inclusion, with half of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, reflecting a deliberate strategy to prioritize small disadvantaged businesses, women-owned firms, and other certified small business concerns. This pattern underscores her alignment with federal goals to broaden vendor diversity and build local institutional capacity through targeted contracting. Her procurement activity is exclusively classified under NAICS 921190—Other General Government Support—indicating a focus on non-operational, policy-driven services rather than goods or infrastructure. She procures specialized consulting services, program evaluation frameworks, and technical support for public education systems, demonstrating deep expertise in public sector capacity strengthening within complex, multi-stakeholder development environments.