📍 Reparations Club, 3054 S. Victoria Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90016
📅 Sunday, October 5, 2025 | Doors at 6:30, Event at 7.
Join Reparations Club for a powerful conversation on The Double Tax: How Women of Color are Overcharged & Underpaid with two authors Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman in conversation with two time New York Times Bestselling author, WFC Board Member, and moderator Anna Malaika Tubbs. Together, they’ll unpack the hidden costs of racism and sexism that women—especially Black women—bear across their lifetimes, and explore pathways toward equity. Doors open at 6:30pm, with the program beginning promptly at 7pm at Reparations Club (3054 S. Victoria Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016). Multiple ticket options are available, including guaranteed seating with a signed book, free RSVP (entry based on capacity), or signed book purchase for those unable to attend in person.
Speaker Bios:
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics. She is a doctoral fellow for the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, Center for Black Entrepreneurship, Russell Sage Foundation, Roosevelt Institute, and Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality & Social Policy and a graduate affiliate at Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Center and the Institute for Quantitative Science.
Her first book, The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System (2022), is the first trade publication to exclusively feature Black scholars and experts across economics, education, health, climate, criminal justice, and technology. She also co-founded #BlackBirdersWeek in 2019 and The Sadie Collective in 2018—the first non-profit addressing the underrepresentation of Black women in economics and related fields.
The youngest recipient of the CEDAW Women’s Rights Award from the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women—an honor previously given to Vice President Kamala Harris—her writing and commentary appear in TIME, Bloomberg, NPR, and The New York Times. In 2023, she was selected to be part of the inaugural Forbes 30 under 30 Boston cohort. Her forthcoming book, The Double Tax, will be published by Penguin/Portfolio in September 2025. The book is the first to explore the costs women face and shows why the bill runs higher for women of color.
Anna Malaika Tubbs is a 2x New York Times bestselling author and multidisciplinary expert on current and historical understandings of race, gender, and equity. With a Ph.D. in Sociology and a Masters in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge in addition to a Bachelors in Medical Anthropology from Stanford University, Anna translates her academic knowledge into stories that are clear and engaging. Her articles have been published by TIME Magazine, New York Magazine, CNN, The Guardian, and others. Her first book The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of MLK Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation came out in 2021, her second book Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us came out in May of this year. Anna’s storytelling also takes form in her talks, including her TED Talk that has been viewed 2 million times, as well as the scripted and unscripted screen projects she has in development. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three kids.