Magdalene Mwende, 34, is the head of Industrial Ecology at Bamburi-Lafarge East Africa. Her job is to ensure the company complies with environment standards. She spoke to ALLAN OLINGO
It all started in 1996, when some friends convinced Magdalene Mwende against changing her Engineering course for medicine. She took up the advice and went ahead to excel in this discipline, emerging the best in her Civil Engineering class of 2001 at Moi University.