Sadie Collective
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The Sadie Collective is the first American non-profit organization which aims to increase the representation of African-American women in economics and related fields.[1][2] It was founded by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman and Fanta Traore in August 2018 and is named for the first African-American economist, Sadie T. M. Alexander.[3][4][5][6][7]
Formation | 2018; 6 years ago (2018) |
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Founders | Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Fanta Traore |
Website | sadiecollective |
It has organized conferences connecting African-American women pursuing careers in economics and related fields such as finance, data science, and public policy.[8][9] In February 2019, the Collective hosted the Sadie T. M. Alexander Conference for Economics and related fields at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington, D.C. In February 2020, the second annual conference was hosted by the Urban Institute with Bridget Terry Long and Janet Yellen as Keynote Speakers with nearly 300 attendees.[10] [11] The conferences are the first exclusively for African-American women in economics and related fields.[12] In 2020, the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank announced a data science skills workshop in collaboration with the Collective for African-American college students.[13]