On a humid February afternoon last year, Jane Clayson Johnson trudged through the dense forest with her guide, Grace Ninsiima, a young mother from Masaka, a city in central Uganda. Johnson, who spent her career in high-profile broadcast roles at ABC News and CBS News, had come to Africa to interview Ninsiima and several others for “Pathway to Hope,” a documentary exploring the transformative power of education in their lives.

The women pause as Ninsiima points out endaggu, a Ugandan plant that kept her and her four daughters fed when they fled Ninsiima’s abusive marriage, hiding in a one-room shed with a leaky roof.

“So you find the root of this plant and you peel it, it’s like potato,” Ninsiima tells Johnson at one point in the film, pulling a bunch of leafy twigs. She’s a graduate of t

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