Prof. Phylis Jepkemoi Bartoo (born 1970) is a Kenyan linguist, academic and politician serving as the Member of Parliament for Moiben Constituency in Uasin Gishu County. She was elected in the August 2022 general election on a United Democratic Alliance (UDA) ticket, unseating the incumbent Silas Tiren and becoming a first-term legislator in the 13th Parliament. Her public profile blends a long university career with a focus on education, agriculture and rural infrastructure, and she is often profiled as part of the new wave of women MPs elected in 2022. Before politics, Bartoo spent more than 15 years at Egerton University, rising from lecturer to Professor of Linguistics and serving as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) as well as Chair of the Department of Literature, Language and Linguistics. A specialist in language and linguistics, she has published on topics ranging from Kenyan dialects and language policy to media discourse and agricultural communication, and has supervised numerous postgraduate students. In Parliament she sits on the Education & Research Committee and the Procedure & House Rules Committee, where she applies her academic experience to debates on curriculum, research funding and institutional governance.