Minnie Annan, VP Impact & Innovation

Minnie Quartey Annan, Ph.D. is the Vice President of Impact & Innovation for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (BGCGW), and she has been working for BGCGW since 2012. She has been in youth development for over twenty years starting with her work with teenage girls in her hometown of Valdosta, GA.  She aims to provide a space of equity, exposure and empowerment for all young people, helping them see possibilities instead of problems!  Her work with the Youth of the Year program and the Dr. Sachiko Kuno Center of Transformation keeps her connected to the mission and rewarding task of developing and supporting our future leaders and change agents.

Minnie completed her doctoral studies at Georgetown University with a degree in sociolinguistics.  Her dissertation explored how African American Language speakers in the Washington, DC area construct particular local identities through storytelling and vowel centralization (Maryland vs. Murriland).  Her research has been featured on the front page of the Washington Post, she has been a guest on NPR, and she was the primary field researcher for the first publicly accessible Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL) funded by the National Science Foundation.

Minnie resides in Upper Marlboro, MD, and in addition to her work with BGCGW, she is still very connected to the Georgetown community serving as adjunct faculty, a long-time board member of the Patrick Healy Fellows, and a champion of the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access. In her spare time, she likes to hang out with her teenage daughter, Hasana (a proud Club kid!), play an intense game of Monopoly, try to solve the hardest level Escape Rooms, and visit all the coffee shops and cupcakeries in the Washington, DC area.