ANNA GIFTY
OPOKU-AGYEMAN
AN AWARD-WINNING Economist, SPEAKER, AND WRITER
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics with a focus on race, gender, and the economy. She is a doctoral fellow for the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, Center for Black Entrepreneurship, and Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality & Social Policy as well as a graduate affiliate at Harvard Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy Center and the Institute for Quantitative Science. She is an inaugural Graduate fellow at The Roosevelt Institute.
Her first book, The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System (2022), is the first trade publication to exclusively feature Black scholars and experts across economics, education, health, climate, criminal justice, and technology. The book is critically acclaimed and has received praise from prominent politicians, public figures, bestselling authors, and activists. She also co-founded #BlackBirdersWeek in 2019 and The Sadie Collective in 2018—the first non-profit addressing the underrepresentation of Black women in economics and related fields.
The youngest recipient of the CEDAW Women's Rights Award from the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women—an honor previously given to Vice President Kamala Harris—Anna Gifty’s writing and commentary appear in TIME, Bloomberg, NPR, and The New York Times. In 2023, she was selected to be part of the inaugural Forbes 30 under 30 Boston cohort. Her latest book, The Double Tax, published by Penguin Random House/Portfolio and Little Brown Books UK, explores the costs women face, why the bill runs higher for women of color, and how closing the gap helps society. The book is hailed by Gabrielle Union as “life-changing” and has received widespread coverage from ABC News, The New York Times, Marketplace, CBS News, ESSENCE, NPR, and Forbes.
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