Adjoa Kesewaa Agah credits her mother, a caterer, with igniting her creativity. “She would invite me into the kitchen, put a variety of ingredients out and say, ‘Make something with it’—and this made me not afraid to try new things,” she says. The lastborn in a family of three children whose father is a medical doctor, Agah says she appreciates the inspiration and freedom to experiment. After completing secondary school she did a degree in Chemical Engineering. She followed up with a master’s degree in Radiation Processing, and continues to solve problems as a research scientist at BNARI-GAEC.