Digna Hyginus Swai grew up in a farming family in the southern highlands of Tanzania. She is proud that she and all four of her siblings have completed their university education, and she expects the same from her young daughter, who will soon turn eight years old. Swai excelled in science in secondary school, and was accepted at four universities. Although most of her peers were going for accounting courses, she had always loved farming and longed to see improvements to farming techniques, so she chose food science for her undergraduate degree, “because it’s in the science realm.” Her parents were very supportive of her choice.