"Real Life" is a series of podcasts that focuses on inspirational day-to-day people and how they navigate the course other lives. In this episode Femi Ibiwoye interviews Dr. Hephzi Tagoe (Mrs Hephzi Angela Akordor), Science Communication Expert, Research Scientist, Educator, Charity Director and Churchill Fellow based in Essex, UK. The questions cover a personal fact-find, adapting to the changes in health  & education, a discussion around the pandemic and uncovering faith-based principles to make a success of life.

Dr Hephzi Tagoe

Dr Hephzi Tagoe is a research scientist with a PhD in Skin biology, a multiple award-winning Science Communicator, Business Owner, Charity Director, community engagement professional and freelance science writer. She is the regional chair for the Royal Society of Biology Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire branch and a 2019 Winston Churchill fellow.

Hephzi’s work through her charity, GhScientific focuses on empowering young people and their parents from underserved communities and hard to reach audiences to improve their science capital and social mobility by providing opportunities to enable them to make informed decisions.

Hephzi regularly speaks and writes on community engagement, starting an enterprise, the inequalities in the stem industry. She is not just as a black woman in science but an individual who speaks to women on the challenges she faced as a mum during her PhD. She is also has documented her opinions on the role of location and the big city bubble, in creating barriers. She was named in the 2018 financial times top BAME woman in UK tech for her work in the industry.

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