Modesta Nnedinso Abugu is fellow of the Cornell Alliance for Science and a graduate student in Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida. Before moving to Florida, she was the Programme Assistant for the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB), Nigeria Chapter, where she engaged policymakers, the media, scientists and other stakeholders to promote access to agricultural innovation for small holder farmers. She was part of the inaugural cohort of Alliance for Science Global Leadership Fellows program at Cornell University in 2015. She now helps to lead and advance the communications strategies as well as train other cohorts on grassroots organizing and strategic communications. She is also a 2020 Conviron Scholar of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)