Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University studying public policy and economics. Her research fields are labor economics, inequality, and behavioral science. She specifically uses experiments and administrative data to investigate interventions to address workplace bias and discrimination. Her latest co-authored academic publication, published in AEA Papers and Proceedings, was recently featured by Forbes and Black Enterprise.

She is a doctoral fellow at the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, the Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality & Social Policy, and the Roosevelt Institute. She is also affiliated with Harvard Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy Center and the Institute for Quantitative Science. Her research has received funding from Pivotal Ventures, JPAL North America, the Russell Sage Foundation, The Policy Academies, and the Center for Black Entrepreneurship, among others. In 2025, she earned Harvard Kennedy School’s highest teaching awards: Dean’s Excellence in Student Teaching and Distinction in Student Teaching. Since then, she has guest-lectured and given distinguished lectures at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy, Spelman College and Williams College.

In 2019, Anna Gifty graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics with a minor in Economics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In 2025, she earned her M.A. in public policy and economics from Harvard University. Prior to Harvard, she worked at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The Urban Institute, PNC Bank, and The Sadie Collective, a global non-profit expanding the talent pipeline into economics and related fields. She co-founded The Sadie Collective in 2018.