Amma Boateng

Congressional Fellow

She/her/hers

Area of Discipline: Technology

Amma Boateng is a dynamic professional with over six years of experience in public policy, technology, and global health. She holds a B.S. in Biology and a J.D. from Howard University. Between undergrad and law school, Amma led a community of 600 grassroots advocates for malaria elimination, focusing on congressional advocacy and foreign aid appropriations at the United Nations Foundation’s United to Beat Malaria campaign. In addition to her work, she founded affinity groups at the UN Foundation for Black, Latinx, LGBTQI+, and AAPI communities, and served as the chairwoman of the Black Affinity Group.

Her interest in technology was sparked during trips to Haiti and her homeland Ghana in 2019, where she saw technology’s potential to bridge the gap for developing countries and explored its role in building wealth for the African diaspora. Amma has since held internships with Meta’s Oversight Board, the House Committee on Homeland Security, SeedAI, and as a 2023 Microsoft Fellow, gaining deep expertise in digital governance, AI workforce development, rural broadband expansion, and social media content moderation. Post her CBCF fellowship, Amma hopes to run a boutique global consulting agency advising tech startups with non-traditional founders.