Sally Nuamah (UCHV/CSDP Fellow 2016-2018) Named Carnegie Fellow to Support Her Study of "How the Punishment of Black Women and Girls Affects Our Democracy"

April 25, 2019

Sally A. Nuamah, assistant professor at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy, has been named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Nuamah was 2016-2018 Values and Public Policy Postdoctoral Research Associate with appointment in the Woodrow Wilson School/Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Her work focuses on race, gender and education policy, which is the topic of her new book, How Girls Achieve (Harvard University Press, 2019). The book details the unaddressed barriers black girls face in obtaining an education, from sexual violence to unequal access to resources. Drawing on her work in the United States, Ghana and South Africa, Nuamah calls for “feminist schools,” which will not only help girls achieve, but provide a better environment for all students.