Stanford Humanities Center
Alex will teach us about the sisal farming industry in Kenya and how to plant, cultivate, and harvest sisal plants for fiber production. We will then plant sisal together on the Farm and try our hand at processing mature blades by hand using manual tools. Wear or bring clothes you don’t mind getting dirty!
Alex Odundo is the founder of SIFA Machinery LTD. and Olex Technology Enterprises. He helped establish Lake Basin Agrotech LTD., the Kisumu Innovators Association Group, and the South Nyanza Sisal Association Forum. He has published a paper on plant-based sanitary pads with the Prakash Lab (BioEngineering), featured in the Stanford Report here, and also collaborated with the Ministry of Science and Technology, Kenya Sisal Board, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Labor, among others, in the development of agricultural and waste management tools. Alex trained in mechanical engineering production at Kisumu Polytechnic and in engineering fabrication and design at TechShop San Francisco. He was a TED Fellow in 2012.
Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and made possible by support from an anonymous donor honoring the Directorship of former SHC Director John Bender, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm
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