OUR FELLOWS
Wezi Esther Mkwaila attended a girls’ boarding school whose teachers instilled hard work and determination in their students. The experience paid off, as she excelled in her final examinations. “The combination of discipline and good grades laid the foundation for my dream of going to college,” she says.
Mkwaila worked on an American bean variety that was later released by Michigan State University as Eldorado Pinto. She is a co-author of the variety’s plantregistration article.
Field of Research
AWARD will increase my visibility as a woman in science in Africa—it will help put me on the map.