I grew up in Accra, where I learned early that the built environment is never neutral. The neighborhood you're born into determines whether the floods reach your front door, whether you can get to school, whether your family has room to actually be together. That understanding has followed me across everything I've done since — founding a coworking space, repositioning a mixed-use building, underwriting affordable housing deals in Boston, and now finishing dual graduate degrees at Harvard.

I'm someone who moves between worlds that don't always talk to each other: finance and design, public purpose and private capital, West Africa and the American city. I find that interesting. I think the work gets better when you don't stay inside one of them.

I'm intellectually restless by nature. I read across fields, follow threads that don't obviously connect, and tend to stay with a question longer than is probably useful. That's what pulled me toward planning and housing finance, and it's what keeps pulling me toward the harder questions. Not just how to make a deal work. But what the deal is actually for.