Eric Opoku Agyemang is the Leadership Programs Director at Puget Sound Sage and Sage Leaders. Before joining Sage, Eric served as the founder and national coordinator of the Patriots Ghana, an international organization that promotes youth leadership and active citizen engagement in Ghana, West Africa. Additionally, he served as co-founder and executive director of the Cheerful Hearts Foundation, a non-profit that uses community-based interventions to address child trafficking in the West African fishing industry.
Aside from serving on the city of Seattle's "Our Best" Advisory Council, Eric recruits, trains, and deploys black male adults to mentor black youth in Seattle. In 2015, he served as a fellow of President Obama's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). Eric holds a Master's in Social Work from the University of Washington and a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management from the Methodist University College, Ghana, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington's School of Social Work.