Hey Everyone. I’m Katya the Destroyer | Katya Osei | TEDxAccra

A journey through growing up, finding purpose, and learning that maybe the point isn’t to save the world but to help people believe it can be different. A story about Korle Lagoon, impossible things, and the power of asking: why not? Katia Osei, also known as Katya the Destroyer, is a Ghanaian engineer, researcher, and storyteller working to democratize the "-isms" and "-ologies" long reserved for the privileged few. After studying bioengineering at Harvard University, she returned to Ghana's coastline, a historic site where many of the stories that shaped today's unequal world were first told. Her work spans genetic engineering to community ecology, bridging conventional academia and citizen scence. Katia believes that the world as we know it was first spoken into being and that new stories, told from this same coast, can help unbuild it into something fairer. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx