Edna Ekua Kwansima Quansah
Ghana 2014
Edna Ekua Kwansima Quansah grew up in a family that deeply valued education. “I would want to help my aunties in the kitchen, but my dad would say ‘Go read a book’—and our house was filled with books,” she recalls. “Whenever we went anywhere, I was encouraged to take a book along. I grew up with the idea that the sky is the limit.
I am determining how ocean acidification is impacting fisheries.
Field of Research
If climate change is going to reduce the abundance and diversity of fish, then we need to protect the little that comes out.

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