Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Biography

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is a Ghanaian-American researcher, writer, and activist. A doctoral candidate at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics, she focuses on workplace and academic inequality, using data to address discrimination. She graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2019 with a B.A. in mathematics and a minor in economics. Opoku-Agyeman co-founded The Sadie Collective in 2018, a nonprofit promoting Black women in economics and related fields, and #BlackBirdersWeek in 2019, celebrating Black naturalists. Her book, "The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System’ (2022) features Black scholars addressing systemic issues. Her forthcoming book, “The Double Tax” (September 2025), explores the compounded costs of racism and sexism for women of color. She is the youngest recipient of the UN’s CEDAW Women’s Rights Award and was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Boston (2023).

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