About

Dr. Caternor grew up in Asutsuare, in Ghana’s Eastern Region. On Saturdays she went to the market to buy cookies and sweets, then sold them to classmates during the week. On weekday mornings, she woke before school to sell food door-to-door — learning before she had a word for it that resilience is not a personality type. It is a practice.

 

That early discipline carried her across an ocean, through two decades of clinical healthcare, onto stages across the country, and into the lives of patients and audiences who needed someone who had already walked the hard road.

 

Where others saw obstacles, she found options. She refused to quit. She learned that failure is not the end of the story — it is the part that prepares you for what comes next.