
Dreamsville
By William Yakah


#6 - Edith Amoafoa Smart: Unlearning, Relearning, & Forming New perspectives
Edith shares her experience chartering unpopular career paths, and how her liberal arts education has re-shaped her perspectives about a particular hot topic in Ghana.

#5 - Dr. Paul Azunre: Going Against the Grain
Why settle for one passion when you can have two? Dr. Paul Azunre shares how he's bringing Ghanaian languages into the digital world by buiding Khaya app, all while pursuing his dream of being a musician.

#4 - Chidi Nwaogu: The Startup Mindset
In our final episode for a tumultuous 2020, William chats with a popular serial tech entrepreneur and software developer based in Nigeria, Chidi Nwaogu, to learn about his journey to entrepreneurship and lessons dealing with failures as a young innovator. Plus, are you a biology person or a physics person?

#3 - Andrea Gila: A Weird Nurse
In this episode, William sits with a friend and coworker Andrea, a Ph.D. student from Madrid, Spain, to chat about her journey to becoming a nurse and then a scientist. Plus, how does it feel like to grow up in one of the biggest football cities in the world? Andrea shares some of her favorite moments.

#2 - Umaru Barrie: Intentional Mentorship
From Sierra Leone to New York to Texas, Umaru walks us through navigating his journey overcoming many obstacles, and how a $2,500 summer job inspired his path to become a physician-scientist.

#1- Lucio Dery: Computer Vision
William chats with Lucio Dery, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, to learn about his journey from Ghana and his motivations to study physics, computer science, and artificial intelligence.

Trailer: Dreamsville podcast
In this trailer, host William Yakah introduces Dreamsville and sets out the motivation behind this podcast.