Steel meets serenity: Kwame Bekoe talks to Race in STEM
Steel meets serenity: Kwame Bekoe talks to Race in STEM
For our latest Race in STEM podcast, our global community manager, Steven Fuller, caught up with aviation and sustainability expert Kwame Bekoe.
Born and raised in the UK of Ghanaian parents, Kwame went back to Ghana for three years of secondary school, gaining a deeper understanding of his culture and background, before returning to the UK and finishing his education. It was far from plain sailing in the part of southwest London where he spent the first part of his childhood. “The town I was actually born in was a stronghold for the British National Party, so I remember actually in my youth seeing these marches happening all around me, all these people filled with anger and hatred.”
It was Kwame’s parents, and his father in particular, who helped him come to terms with experiences like these. “He would explain to me about really what is going on, why people think like this, and, you know, a lot of it is down to indifference and lack of understanding, and really just how to navigate my way through that and not let it become a deterrent or a hindrance as to where it is I feel I want to go in life.”
Kwame’s certainly doing something different with his current role as commercial director at Zero, a company revolutionising the way aircraft are powered and reducing their environmental impact.
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