Selamawi Asgedom

Quick Facts

Full Name	Selamawi Asgedom
Occupation	Autobiographer
Date Of Birth	Sep 29, 1976(1976-09-29)
Age	48
Country	Ethiopia
Horoscope	Virgo

Selamawi Asgedom Biography

Selamawi Asgedom is one of the most popular and richest Autobiographer who was born on September 29, 1976 in Ethiopia. Author and public speaker from Ethiopia who wrote a bestseller autobiography of his experiences as a refugee. Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Incredible Journey from an Ethiopian refugee Camp through Harvard.

Interview of His interview with Oprah Winfrey was named one of her twenty most unforgettable moments of 2005. was named as one of her top 20 memorable moments of 2005.

Mawi was born in northern Ethiopia, in the province of Tigray. For about two years of his childhood, he was separated from his father and mother, Haileab and Tsege, when he had to flee to Sudan to avoid the war in Ethiopia. Mawi was seven years old when he and his family arrived in the U.S. in 1983, sponsored by World Relief. They had spent them previous three years in a refugee camp in Sudan. He grew up in the Chicago suburb of Wheaton, Illinois. He played on his high school basketball team and ran track, the best in his league. He graduated with top honors from Harvard University, receiving a degree in American history and giving the commencement address at his graduation in

1999. He is the author of Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard and The Code: The 5 Secrets of Teen Success.

Mawi started Mawi Learning because he wanted to help kids of all backgrounds go on their own journey of unlimited growth. He founded the company in 1999 from his apartment in Chicago and at first focused mostly on giving speeches and writing books. Starting in 2013, Mawi Learning began developing online courses for middle and high school students in core areas of SEL such as time management and goal-setting. By 2019, more than 100,000 students had taken Mawi Learning’s online SEL courses for full high-school credit and Mawi Learning had won many awards for innovation including the CODiE award. In 2019, Mawi Learning was acquired by the global non-profit ACT to support ACT’s mission of empowering people for education and workplace success. Today, Mawi continues to speak and write on Social Emotional Learning to education and corporate audiences.

Son of the father, Sawyer Tewolde Asgedom, was born in 2008.

Selamawi Asgedom Net Worth

Selamawi Asgedom is one of the richest Autobiographer from Ethiopia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Selamawi Asgedom 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He emigrated into America United States when he was seven years old after fleeing from the conflict in Ethiopia and then went on to be a Harvard graduate and give his class’s graduation ceremony in Harvard University.

He published his first fiction novel of fantasy with a setting of East Africa in 2010 with another novel in the near future.

Selamawi Asgedom (Tigrinya: ሰላማዊ ሃእለአብ አስገዶም; born in Adi Wahla, Ethiopia on 29 September 1976) or Mawi Asgedom for short, is an author, public speaker, and a refugee of Ethiopian and Eritrean origin.

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Facts & Trivia

Selamawi Ranked on the list of most popular Autobiographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ethiopia. Selamawi Asgedom celebrates birthday on September 29 of every year.

What is Mawi Asgedom profession?

Professions

Did Mawi graduate from Stanford University?

She graduated from DePaul University with a BA in International Studies and Peace Studies.

What did Mawi accomplish?

His teen-success guides, The Code, Win the Inner Battle, and Nothing is Impossible have also been used in thousands of classrooms. Citing the impact of his work, The Illinois Association of Teachers of English named Mawi the 2006 Illinois Author of the Year.

When was Mawi Asgedom born?

September 29, 1976 (age 45 years)

Why did Mawi and his family move from Ethiopia?

Through Mawi’s story, the book explores the experiences of refugees in America. Born in September 1979, in Adi Wahla, Ethiopia, Mawi and his family flee Ethiopia due to civil war. From Ethiopia, the family moves to a refugee camp in Sudan.