ANNA GIFTY

AN AWARD-WINNING RESEARCHER, SPEAKER, AND WRITER

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is doctoral candidate at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics. She is a doctoral fellow for the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality & Social Policy. She is a former research fellow and graduate research affiliate of Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Center and the Institute for Quantitative Science at Harvard University. Her research aims to improve talent management in organizations.

In 2022, she published a critically acclaimed collection, The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System, which is the first trade publication to exclusively feature Black scholars and experts across economics, education, health, climate, criminal justice, and technology. In 2019, she co-founded the viral and award-winning digital campaign #BlackBirdersWeek. The year prior she also co-founded The Sadie Collective, the first non-profit organization to address the underrepresentation of Black women in economics, finance, and policy. To date, she remains the youngest recipient for a CEDAW Women's Rights Award by the United Nations Convention on the Elimination all forms of Discrimination Against Women— previously awarded to Vice President Kamala Harris and former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In 2023, she achieved the distinction of being chosen for the inaugural Forbes 30 under 30 cohort in Boston. Her writing and commentary is featured widely by media outlets such as TIME, Bloomberg, NPR, and The New York Times. 

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