Njeri Njau is fascinated by bananas, and is working on a technology to produce affordable seedlings, which will enable Kenyan smallholder farmers—more than 60 percent of whom are women—to improve their livelihoods. Njau recalls always loving science. “In high school I was in the science club, and I chose to study biology and chemistry at university.” She began a master’s program in agronomy in 2010, and aspires to eventually do a PhD in crop protection, preferably abroad. One of her long-range goals is to write and publish a book that will give insights into food production and how to gain maximum yields through reducing crop diseases.