‘A powerful moment’: Oakland woman visits first UN Forum for People of African Descent

Oakland resident Priscilla Naa Ankrah was an observer at the first meeting of the United Nations’ Permanent Forum for People of African Descent, which took place Dec. 5-8, 2022, in Geneva, Switzerland. 

Ankrah holds a law degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She is a program director of Priority Africa Network, a nonprofit that works to build bridges between recent African immigrants and the African American community. She is also a 2022 Audio Academy Fellow at KALW-FM.