Nana-Anna Abaka-Cann is a legal practitioner, a certified mediator and arbitrator, and a gender advocate. She holds an LLB(Ghana), an LLM (USA) and was called to the Ghanaian bar in October 2015. She is a doctoral student at the Department of Education Policy Studies with a minor in African Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is a Graduate Assistant at the Africana Research Centre at Penn State. Her interests include corporate law, commercial law, alternative disputes resolution, gender studies, and the nexus between education and law.