Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Kennedy School, studying public policy and economics. 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 and a graduate affiliate at Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Center and the Institute for Quantitative Science.
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. She also co-founded 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. Her 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 next book, The Double Tax, will be published by Penguin/Portfolio on September 16, 2025. The book is the first to explore how expensive it is to be a woman in America, why the bill runs higher for women of color, and what we ought to do about it.
