Sally Nuamah

Sally A. Nuamah is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She is the author of How Girls Achieve and Closed for Democracy, has published a dozen peer-reviewed articles in top journals, and has received nearly 40 awards from organizations including the American Political Science Association, Forbes, and the Carnegie Corporation. Dr. Nuamah has held academic appointments at Duke, Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania, with research funded by the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. She has worked as a policy expert with USAID in South Africa and as a gender expert for the United Nations Foundation in Ghana. She founded the TWII Foundation, which provides scholarships for girls who are first in their families to attend college. She also produced HerStory, a documentary on girls and education in Ghana, named “Best Documentary Short” by PBS and distributed by the Discovery Channel. Her honors include a “Change-Maker” award from the White House Council on Women and Girls. She received her B.A. from The George Washington University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University, where she became the youngest professor to receive tenure in the School of Education and Social Policy.

Email Sally Nuamah at: Sally.Nuamah@northwestern.edu