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Sadie Collective

Sadie Collective is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sadie Collective rather than just read about it. In short: 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. 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.

Key takeaways

Sadie Collective belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Sadie Collective to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Sadie Collective from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

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. 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. It has organized conferences connecting African-American women pursuing careers in economics and related fields such as finance, data science, and public policy. 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. The conferences are the first exclusively for African-American women in economics and related fields. In 2020, the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank announced a data science skills workshop in collaboration with the Collective for African-American college students.

History Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, a former undergraduate student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Fanta Traore, a former research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors co-founded the organization in August 2018. Both women cited their isolating experiences in their work and academic environments as inspiration for creating an "intergenerational community" of Black women in economics and related fields. Both women mention that Lisa Cook is their mentor and an early supporter of the Collective. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman and Lisa Cook co-wrote a New York Times opinion piece and participated in interviews specifically advocating especially for the inclusion and advancement of African-American women in the economics profession. Opoku-Agyeman served as the organization's CEO until her resignation in March 2021. Traore served as CEO shortly after. In July 2022, Bola Olaniyan was announced as the Collective's first Executive Director.

Funding In October 2020, the organization entered a multi-year partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2021, the organization was listed among several organizations awarded the first round of capital investments and philanthropic grants for Black women by Goldman Sachs to "fund the creation of high school economic clubs for young Black girls to participate in the annual Federal Reserve Challenge".

See also National Economic Association The Research in Color Foundation

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Sadie Collective

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Sadie Collective claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Sadie Collective before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Sadie Collective ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Sadie Collective

In research: Sadie Collective appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sadie Collective in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sadie Collective is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2018 establishments in Washington, D.C., African-American professional organizations, Economics organizations, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sadie Collective outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Sadie Collective in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Sadie Collective means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Sadie Collective out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Sadie Collective in simple terms?

Why does Sadie Collective matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Sadie Collective?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Sadie Collective.