Esther Aryee is a Christian and a mother in her mid-sixties, who has four biological and two non-biological children.

She attained her B.Sc. (Hons) Biological Sciences at Kwame Nrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi and Pg. Dip Medical Sciences at IMR, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She has a Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland. She is a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow after a year study of Infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. She taught Biology/Integrated Sciences at Federal Government Girls College, Bida, Niger State for six years and Zungeru College of Advanced studies, Zungeru, Niger State for almost two years, both in Nigeria.