Sheg came alone to the U.S. from West Africa in 2001 at the age of eighteen. Five years later, he earned a Masters degree in Applied Molecular Biology from the University of Maryland and worked for three years as a research scientist at Vanderbilt University.
In 2008, Sheg was featured on Oprah’s Big Give Show. A year later, he was selected as one of the young leaders by Ebony Magazine and the Nashville Business Journal respectively. He is currently studying Medicine at the University of Tennessee. Bountiful Famine is his first novel and his second book.
Sheg came alone to the U.S. from West Africa in 2001 at the age of eighteen. Five years later, he earned a Masters degree in Applied Molecular Biology from the University of Maryland and worked for three years as a research scientist at Vanderbilt University.
In 2008, Sheg was featured on Oprah’s Big Give Show. A year later, he was selected as one of the young leaders by Ebony Magazine and the Nashville Business Journal respectively. He is currently studying Medicine at the University of Tennessee. Bountiful Famine is his first novel and his second book.
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