I knew well that the only way
I could get that door open was to
knock it down.
Because I knocked all of them down.

- Dr. Sadie T.M. Alexander

Second Annual Sadie T.M. Alexander Conference for Economics and Related Fields

Please note that registration for our 2020 conference is sold out. Click to learn more about the most anticipated economics conference of 2020.
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With over 300 members across 130 institutions, 30 states, and four global regions, new members will have access to a network of peers and institutions dedicated to Black women in economics and related fields.

Pictured: Members of the 2018-2019 Organizing Team


​Founded by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman and Fanta Traore, and co-led by an incredible team of young Black women, the Sadie Collective is named after Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first African American to earn her doctoral degree in economics in 1921 from the University of Pennsylvania.

​Unfortunately, due to racial barriers that persisted at the time, Dr. Alexander was unable to find work in the economics profession and instead pursued a career in law, holding a variety of positions such as Assistant City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia.

​Our organization aims to bring together Black women at different stages in their academic and/or professional careers in quantitatively demanding fields such as economics, finance and public policy. The Collective provides resources, programs and a community to Sadie Collective members and advocates for broader visibility in the field.


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