Idayat Oyetoro grew up in Ibadan in a family of five children, all of whom have completed university. She credits her parents, both now retired—her father as a forestry professional and her mother as a secondary-school principal—for encouraging their children to pursue higher education. “I decided to focus on forest resource utilization during the final year of my BSc,” she says. “This pertains to the way forest plants are used for medicinal purposes.