Dr. Imani Strong

Imani Strong is the Chief Operating Officer at Griffin & Strong.  She  has served previously as Deputy Project Manager and Qualitative Research Coordinator on six major disparity studies, and as a data analyst on two studies. Imani currently oversees operations for the firm, providing strategic guidance and support to G&S's staff and managing the allocation of resources to ensure the team's efficiency. 

An anthropologist by training, Dr. Strong also provides input on the qualitative evidence gathering process and stakeholder engagement, as well as the production of the anecdotal analysis for the firm’s studies. Her PhD research, “Contracting change: An ethnographic study of affirmative action, entrepreneurship, and bureaucracy in Atlanta, Georgia,” relied on a year of fieldwork with business owners and contract compliance professionals and was funded by the Leverhulme Trust through the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute.

Dr. Strong is currently a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she has taught legal anthropology and has designed and taught a course on race in anthropological perspective.

PhD, Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science

MRes, Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science

MSc, Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, Hertford College

BA,  Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College