Alice is a risk-taker, impact-driven, solution-oriented and collaborative. As a champion of the transformative skills development agenda, she has seven years of accumulated international experience in applying psychology and education research, practice, policy, and advocacy work towards achieving quality, equitable, and resilient education systems in low and middle-income countries. I extensively focused on improving young women’s participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and technical and vocational education and training (TVET).

She additionally works with governments and not-for-profit organisations to design guidance and counselling and employers’ engagement systems in TVET, secondary education and tertiary education to help young people understand the world of work and create enabling systems for practical school-to-work transition. My research and practice have progressively impacted over 20,000 young people, especially vulnerable girls and boys with HIV, teenage mothers, girls with disabilities, and girls living in rural and slum communities.

She is passionate about employer engagement in education, school-career guidance and counselling, skills development, and bridging the gender gap in STEM and TVET. She is an experienced adolescent health counsellor and teacher who has supported and taught young people in various settings across Ghana and internationally. She volunteers and works with Education and Employers Charity to engage with public schools across the UK as part of her contribution to challenging stereotypes among young people.

Her PhD in Education and International Development at the University of Cambridge investigated the lived experiences of young women pursuing STEM-TVET in Ghana. As a young leader at the Forum for World Education, she has spoken on student resilience and motivation and her efforts to improve digital education in Ghana. She continues to engage policymakers and practitioners in Ghana and worldwide to bring about the change she envisions.