The full story.

I grew up in Effiakuma, a neighborhood in Takoradi, Ghana, where people of different languages and faiths lived in close quarters and, for the most part, kept the peace. I went on to attend Amherst College on a full scholarship, graduating with honors in Music and Computer Science.

It was only later, once I started working, that my childhood curiosity about how communities hold together resurfaced. I realized that the disciplines I had studied—the structural logic of computer science and the communicative power of music—offered a unique framework to address how people navigate difference and find common ground.

Today, I balance these two worlds as a software engineer and a concert organist. I am also the founder of CHARLéY, a platform designed to make finding the right people less dependent on sheer luck and proximity. Because the necessary data on how different personalities interact across cultures didn't exist, I conducted a pre-registered cross-cultural study to gather it myself. This research and engineering work is housed under Kronogon Inc.

An Akan proverb says that one tree does not make a forest. In Effiakuma, I saw a neighborhood prove that daily by bringing together people who had every reason to remain separate. My goal is to use code and data to do the same on a larger scale.