Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

At-a-Glance

Selected for Forbes 30 Under 30 Local Boston class in 2023
Author of *The Double Tax: How Women of Color are Overcharged and Underpaid*, debuting September 16, with Hachette UK and Penguin Random House
Co-founder and former CEO of the Sadie Collective (founded 2018), a nonprofit increasing Black women in quantitative data fields
Co-founder and co-organizer of Black Birders Week (2020), highlighting Black birders and naturalists
Doctoral candidate in Public Policy and Economics at Harvard Kennedy School
Earned a B.A. in mathematics with a minor in economics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2019)

Biography

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is a Ghanaian-born American activist, writer, and researcher. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Public Policy and Economics at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a Ford Foundation Graduate Fellow, and a Women and Public Policy Program Doctoral Fellow. In 2023, she was selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 Local Boston class.