Chidera is a Featured Writer at Lore covering Science & Future from Abuja. She taught herself CRISPR from YouTube starting at eleven, has completed every Khan Academy biology track twice, and has, in her spare time, corresponded with three genuine geneticists and printed all of their emails.
She writes about what it feels like to learn faster than the room you're standing in—about the difference between the syllabus and the disease, and about the aunties in her family who are her real reason.
She will slow down, she reports, when sickle cell does.