Alumnus | CBC Blogger | Global Citizen
Living and working with farmers in Zambia, he has spent the last 15 months teaching farming techniques and working with CARE International to commercialize sorghum, a drought-resistant cereal to combat hunger and poor farming productivity. A 2003 UBC mechanical engineering graduate, Quinn has been on his second volunteer placement with Engineers Without Borders, the program he credits for his passion as “a social entrepreneur promoting small enterprises in developing countries.” The 2006 recipient of the UBC Alumni Global Citizenship Award, he is best known for a story that inspired Sarah McLachlan’s Grammy-nominated World on Fire music video. Quinn has been featured as one of Canada’s 10 Travellers for Change in Outpost Magazine and regularly blogs his experiences in Zambia for the CBC. “I really wanted to send educational and inspirational stories about the lives in Zambia as I feel that Canadians are largely unattached to what African life is really like,” he says. He’s starting a master’s degree in Development Management at the London School of Economics. |
Mike Quinn knows the difference one
person can make.