WEEK SIX
African American Heritage House (AAHH) Lecture Series: Wes Moore
Please join us online at CHQ Assembly on Friday, August 6 at 1:00 pm EDT for our sixth program of the 2021 Summer Assembly Season. We are pleased to present Wes Moore, a combat veteran, bestselling author, small business owner, former CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, and most recently, a Democratic Candidate for the Governor of Maryland, as he delivers a talk in line with the weekly theme of Building a Culture of Empathy.
Wes was born and raised in Baltimore and the Bronx, where his family moved after his father died when he was three years old. Despite childhood challenges, he graduated with an associate degree from Valley Forge Military College and later, graduated from Johns Hopkins University while becoming its first Black Rhodes Scholar. Wes went on to serve as a captain and paratrooper with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, including a combat deployment to Afghanistan. He later served as a White House Fellow, advising on issues of national security and international relations.
Before becoming CEO at Robin Hood, Wes was the founder and CEO at BridgeEdU, an education platform based in Baltimore addressing the college completion and job placement crisis by reinventing freshman year for underserved students.
He is the best-selling author of “The Other Wes Moore,” “The Work,” and “Five Days,” the story of the uprisings in Baltimore in 2015 following the killing of Freddie Gray in police custody.
AAHH lectures will remain available on the CHQ Assembly Platform assembly.chq.org and will also be archived on the AAHH website AAHeritageHouse.org a few days after the presentation.
Note: the speaker will not be on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution.
