Mawuena Agra

Not the ordinary kind | Jesus is life |
Skills Development |Tech in Business |
STEAM Advocate |
Music | Astrophile 💫

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

Don't get engrossed in pleasing people. You can never comprehensively please everyone consistently. It is a wasteful venture AND you'll lose yourself in the process. Find what works best for you and purposefully follow your path.

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

@Fentuo_ Senaya for me!!

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

@KevOnStage The ref's decisions have been unbelievable!!

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

@welbie_ 😂😂😂

[🇬🇭 Black Stars @GhanaBlackstars]

🤩 Matchday mode: Activated 🔥

🎶 A powerful Jama session with the legendary @ASAMOAH_GYAN3 🫡

#BlackStars | #FIFAWorldCup

[Chefabbys @chefabbys]

AMERICA, YOU ARE NEXT 🇺🇸

I’m incredibly honored to be joining the speaker lineup at Social Fest 2026 in Texas alongside some of the world’s most influential creators, including Keith Lee, Aaron Parnas, and many more. African food on Global Stages❤️

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

❤️❤️

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

That's us! 🌍

The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

@dornyoh They've got a training college?? Ah 😅

[Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D @KwekuOA]

Being "Early" is a lonely place—until the future arrives.

On March 1, 2018, I stood on a stage at the Google Community Space in San Francisco. The audience was filled with the top minds in economics from CEGA, Stanford, Google, the World Bank, and many others.

My talk was titled "I, Development Economist" (a nod to Asimov's "I, Robot").

My 2018 thesis was radical at the time: I argued that AI wouldn't just be a tool for better regressions or predictions—it would eventually handle the end-to-end research and implementation pipeline.

The reaction? Deep skepticism. Back then, Transformers were brand new. Many felt the human element of development was too complex to be modeled this way.

The Turning Point: In 2020, I was on the verge of joining Stanford to lead a lab at the intersection of machine learning and social science. When the pandemic froze those plans, it was a "sliding door" moment.

Shout-out to Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group (AFOG) for having me as an honorary researcher during that transition. Ultimately, I realized I didn't want to just research this future—I had to build it.

I founded:

Machine Learning X Doing: Bridging the gap between research and real-world AI.

Development Economics X: Making that "end-to-end" vision a reality for global development. (Of course, many things still don't require AI per se—but they always need to be data-driven).

Fast forward to 2026:The skepticism of 2018 has turned into the industry standard of today. As I prepare for my upcoming TEDx talk, I’ve been reflecting on that 2018 video.

It’s a reminder that as a founder, your job isn't to be right today—it’s to be right about where the world will be in 8 years. The legacy institutions of the past were built for a different era; we are building the infrastructure for the next one.

The futures of development and AI are both here. What do the next 8 years hold?

#AI #DevelopmentEconomics #Startups #FounderJourney #MachineLearning #TEDx2026 #GlobalDev #Impact

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

@osakpa1 @dornyoh Don't worry, I'll shock you guys 😅😅😅

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

And then there’s me, who thought she meant Yahweh. 🤭😆 @dornyoh @osakpa1

[Aaaaawwwooonnlllliiiieeeee🥀🥂 @melissa_bawa]

Are there Ghanaian Gen Zs who are crazy about ABBA or it’s just me?

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

@dornyoh @osakpa1 I like them though, especially Dancing Queen 😅.

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

@dornyoh You do all. Congratulations! 🎊😄

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

@dornyoh Stealth mode unravelled. You've done well. Congrats you two! 👌🎊😀

[Gary Al-Smith @garyalsmith]

Great video by @tictac!

Let me add: Water from Atewa Forest (threatened by illegal mining) supplies River Densu, which feeds Weija Dam, where many parts of Accra get water.

Atewa ➡️ Densu ➡️ Weija ➡️ Accra.

Just a matter of time.

#StopGalamseyNow

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

#StopGalamaseyNow
#FreetheCitizens

[HelicopterMan @LaryeaDerek]

We Global Now 🔥

#StopGalamseyNow
#FreeTheCitizensNow

[Joe mettle @jmettle]

This midnight we go live with the songs of the spirit album.
This is “Ahuoden fofro” featuring my brother @mogmusic .
#Songsofthespirit
#givemeoil
#obaawonoba

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

@OBAmponsah_ 😅😅👏👏

[Luigi Maclean @LuigiMaclean]

Romans 4:20-21 NKJV
[20] He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, [21] and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

The video for "Faithful" will be live on YouTube at 6pm !

[Mawuena Agra @dorisagra]

🔥🔥

[Joe mettle @jmettle]

A glorious night we will never forget .
#praisereloaded
#Hokyspiritencounter

[atamny @atokwamena90]

Limited seats!

Security hold you p3 then you shout MON GYAE ME