What was your first job, and what did it teach you about yourself?

My first job was a Sales Associate at a fashion retail store. I learned that many times, one company owns multiple clothing brands and sells the same products, but with different price tags. I know to always shop at the cheapest option if one company own multiple brands.

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Adjoa Ofosu-Ameyaw, a Public Health professional who believes that fundamental differences in education systems and processes are the main drivers of racial and economic inequities, is the Senior Manager of Data and Evaluation at Baltimore’s Promise.

Before joining Baltimore’s Promise, Adjoa was a Research Analyst for a consulting firm called Westat, where she collaborated with the National Institute of Health-Office of Disease Prevention, to analyze public health research projects and advise the ODP team on improving funding criteria for prevention research. Prior to that, Adjoa also served as a Teach for America Corps Member (2018) in Memphis, Tennessee. She created the first health science curriculum for the school, incorporating clinical health, public health, and health policy to increase health literacy in children and their families.

Adjoa is a University of Maryland-College Park alum, where she led the Antibiotics Campaign of the Maryland Public Interest Research Group, to educate the public, collect petitions and lobby legislators in Annapolis to the successful passage of “Keep Antibiotics Effective Act of 2018”. This is where she found her passion for coupling science and politics. Adjoa also received her Master’s in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University with focuses in Epidemiology and Health Policy. She continues to collaborate with EndsideOut in her spare time, which is a local non-profit organization that strives to increase health literacy in minority and low-income communities in Baltimore City. She serves as their Community Outreach Coordinator, supporting program implementation and operations.

Adjoa was born in Accra, Ghana and migrated to Western Maryland as a teenager. Monday is her favorite day of the week since her name translates to: “Girl born on Monday.” In her spare time, she spends time with her two cats, AJ and Ava.