When I won the AWARD Fellowship in 2009, I was volunteering as a research assistant at the Department of Food Science and Technology, Makerere University and was a Human Nutrition master’s student with limited expectations for my career. At the AWARD orientation workshop in October 2009, I discovered the potential I had as an African woman scientist to fight poverty, hunger, and malnutrition on the continent if I enhanced vital skills through training, mentoring, and dedication to work holistically with other professionals.