Maame Adofoah Yamoah
Maame Adofoah Yamoah was born in Ghana, West Africa, where she attended primary and secondary schools and where she began her studies in higher education. When it came time to choose a major, she chose Spanish over French and ended up pursuing a combined major in Linguistics and Spanish, instead, spending her senior year at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Upon returning to Ghana, she decided to apply to the Master’s program in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, a degree she received in 2020. Two years later, she applied and got accepted into the doctoral program in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies at the same university. As she juggles her doctoral studies with parenting, she’s found time to pursue a number of personal interests in what she calls her “life-skill bucket list,” such as learning how to quilt, cross-stitch, sew, and grow her own food.