William is an entrepreneur with two TED talks and a movie about his journey on Netflix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When William Kamkwamba was 14, Malawi suffered a severe famine. His family could no longer pay his school fees, and he was forced to drop out of high school. While staying home, William remained curious and inventive and worked with the village librarian to stay engaged with his studies, especially science. Working from just one photo in a U.S. junior high school textbook book called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Using Energy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he reasoned out how to build an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap, despite having no instructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
William\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inspiring story is told in his New York Times bestselling memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind<\/em><\/a>, co-authored with Bryan Mealer, and in the Netflix film adaptation<\/a>, directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, which was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film festival. Since its debut, William\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book has been published in two additional editions, a young readers version, and a children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book. The autobiography has sold more than 1 million copies and been translated in nearly twenty languages worldwide. William has been featured on The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, Nyasa Times<\/em>, The Daily Show<\/em> with Jon Stewart, and Good Morning America<\/em> with Diane Sawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After graduating from Dartmouth College in Environmental Studies, William began work as a Global Fellow for the design firm\u00c2\u00a0IDEO.org<\/a>. William is an\u00c2\u00a0entrepreneur<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0TED Fellow<\/a>, and has worked with the\u00c2\u00a0WiderNet Project<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to develop appropriate technologies curriculums focused on bridging the gap between \u00e2\u20ac\u0153knowing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153doing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for young people in Malawi and across the world. William splits his time between the U.S. and Malawi and is currently working full-time with the Moving Windmills Project to bring the\u00c2\u00a0Moving Windmills Innovation Center<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to life in Kasungu, Malawi.\u00e2\u20ac\u2039(Source: www.williamkamkwamba.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n