Shelmith Munyiri has a heart for female farmers in Kenya, many of whom are widows struggling to hang on to their small plots of land—women just like her mother. Munyiri lost her father in a road accident when she was five years old, leaving her mother to raise five young children. “My mother’s only resource was her farm. She did everything she could to get us an education by selling produce,” recalls Munyiri. “Today, I work with so many women farmers like her. They have no one to advise them on how to improve their crops or their livelihoods. I want to be a bridge for those women.”