
Meet our
Board
Leadership
Board of Directors

Dr. Kristen Broady
Senior Economist and Economic Advisor and Director of the Economic Mobility Project, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Fanta Traore
Co-Founder, The Sadie Collective

Simone Gbolo
Executive Director, Public Policy and International Affairs

George-Ann Ryan
Treasurer
COO at Ryan Group

Dr. Marionette Holmes
Chair of Spelman’s Economics Department and Associate Professor
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Dr. Aisha G. Meeks
Associate Professor of Accounting at Morehouse College

Dr. Sandile Hlatshwayo
Board Chair
Economist in the Macro-Risk Unit at the International Monetary Fund
Advisory Council

The Sadie Collective Advisory Council is a body of diverse experts across academia, policy, finance and media, committed to centering Black women in quantitative sciences, specifically economics, finance, data science, and public policy through strategic planning that will guide the next phase of The Sadie Collective.

Funke Aderonmu
Program Specialist, USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security

Elizabeth Asiedu
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Kansas

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Former Vice Chair of the Board of Governors and Former CEO of TIAA

Sarah Rosen Wartell
President, The Urban Institute

Kadija Yilla
Business Analyst,
McKinsey &Co