An award-winning scholar, advocate, founder and filmmaker who explores issues at the intersection of race, gender, public policy, and political behavior, Sally A. Nuamah completed her Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University in June 2016.
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She has held fellowships and faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, Princeton University and Duke University. Currently, Dr. Nuamah is a professor (tenure track) at Northwestern University. Her first book, How Girls Achieve, has been the recipient of multiple national and international awards. Dr. Nuamah is also the creator of an award-winning scholarship organization and film focused on girls education. In 2019, she was named Forbes Magazine "30 under 30 in Education," awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, aka "the Brainy Award," and in 2021 named a recipient of the Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award from the Urban Affairs Association. Her second book, Closed for Democracy, is forthcoming in 2022.