Wes Moore

Entrepreneur

Wes Moore was born in Maryland, United States on October 15th, 1978 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 45, Wes Moore biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
October 15, 1978
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Maryland, United States
Age
45 years old
Zodiac Sign
Libra
Profession
Author, Soldier, Writer
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Valley Forge Military Academy and College (AA), Johns Hopkins University (BA), Wolfson College, Oxford (MLitt)
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Dawn Flythe ​(m. 2007)​
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2
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Wes Moore Career

In 1998 and 1999, Moore interned for Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke. He later became involved with the March of Dimes before serving in the Army. In February 2006, Moore was named a White House Fellow to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Moore later worked at Deutsche Bank in Manhattan and as an investment banker at Citibank from 2007 to 2012 while living in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 2009, Moore was included on Crain’s New York Business's "40 Under 40" list. He also interned at the United States Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Tom Ridge.

In 2010, Moore founded a television production company, Omari Productions, to create content for networks such as the Oprah Winfrey Network, PBS, HBO, and NBC. In May 2014, Moore produced a three-part PBS series, Coming Back with Wes Moore, which followed the lives and experiences of returning veterans.

In 2014, Moore founded BridgeEdU, a company that provided services to support students in their transition to college. Students participating in BridgeEdU paid $500 into the program with varying fees. BridgeEdU was not able to achieve financial stability and was acquired by student financial services company Edquity in 2019, mostly for its database of clients. A Baltimore Banner interview with former BridgeEdU students found that the short-lived company had mixed results.

In September 2016, Moore produced All the Difference, a PBS documentary that followed the lives of two young African-American men from the South Side of Chicago from high school through college and beyond. Later that month, Moore launched Future City, an interview-based talk show with Baltimore's WYPR station.

From June 2017 until May 2021, Moore was CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, a charitable organization that attempts to alleviate problems caused by poverty in New York City. It works mainly through funding schools, food pantries and shelters. It also administers a disaster relief fund. During his tenure as CEO, the organization raised more than $650 million, including $230 million in 2020 to provide increased need for assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020, Moore joined Under Armour's board of directors.

On April 27, 2010, Spiegel & Grau published his first book, The Other Wes Moore. The 200-page book explores the lives of two young Baltimore boys who shared the same name and race, but largely different familial histories that leads them both down very different paths. In December 2012, Moore announced that The Other Wes Moore would be developed into a feature film, with Oprah Winfrey attached as an executive producer. In September 2013, Ember published his second book, Discovering Wes Moore. The book maintains the message and story set out in The Other Wes Moore, but is more accessible to young adults. In April 2021, Unanimous Media announced it would adapt the movie into a feature film. As of June 2022, a film has yet to be produced.

In January 2015, Moore wrote his third book, The Work. In November 2016, Moore wrote This Way Home, a young adult novel about Elijah, a high school basketball player, who emerges from a standoff with a local gang after they attempt, and he refuses, to recruit him to their basketball team. In March 2020, Moore and former Baltimore Sun education reporter Erica L. Green wrote Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City, which explores the 2015 Baltimore protests from the perspectives of eight Baltimoreans who experienced it on the frontlines.

In June 2013, an investigation from The Baltimore Sun alleged that Moore was improperly receiving homestead property tax credits and owed back taxes to the city of Baltimore. Moore told The Sun that he was unaware of any issues with the home's taxes and wanted to pay back what they owed immediately. In October 2022, Baltimore Brew reported that Moore had not paid any water and sewage charges since March 2021, owing $21,200 to the city of Baltimore. Moore settled his outstanding bills shortly after the article was published.

In April 2022, the family of Baltimore County Police Sergeant Bruce Prothero, whose murder in 2000 is highlighted in The Other Wes Moore, accused Moore of making contradictory statements about where the proceeds of the book went, saying that the family "directed no donations" to anywhere, including the nonprofits Moore named. The family also complained that Moore exaggerated his role in their son's life.

Moore was the subject of a CNN article in which he was accused of embellishing his childhood and where he actually grew up. Shortly after the article was published, Moore created a website that attempted to rebut the allegations. He was later criticized for failing to correct television interviewers who incorrectly said he was awarded a Bronze Star. A Capital News Service article highlighted Moore's connections to various industries, including pharmaceutical, technology, beauty and retail giants, and the Green Thumb Industries marijuana company. Moore left Green Thumb Industries in March 2022, and said in October that he would use a blind trust to hold his assets and resign from every board position if elected governor.

In October 2022, The Intercept reported that Moore and Miller were honored at a fundraiser hosted by individuals associated with Hindutva, or a Hindu nationalist political ideology, including Sikhs for Trump founder Jasdip Singh. The event occurred after the Moore campaign added a page to its website to lay out "the facts" about Miller's record on supporting Muslim communities and religious freedom which included a statement that denied accepting donations from the Hindutva movement.

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Civil rights groups call for collapsed Baltimore bridge to be renamed when it's rebuilt because legacy of national anthem author Francis Scott Key is 'clouded with racism accusations'

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 9, 2024
The Caucus of African American Leaders of Anne Arundel County in Maryland voted unanimously to call for the renaming and will lobby governor Wes Moore on the proposal, as reported by the Baltimore Banner . The caucus includes civil rights groups such as the NAACP and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. Leaders argued that the The Star-Spangled Banner author was a slave owner who wrote lyrics that scholars have said 'demeaned black people.' They have asked for the bridge to be renamed after late congressman Parren J Mitchel, the first black man from Maryland elected to the US House of Representatives Democratic gov Moore told Fox News he remains 'laser-focused on providing closure to these families, clearing the channel, and rebuilding the bridge.' However, the Baltimore Banner reported that on Monday Moore told reporters there will 'be a time for that' conversation at a later date. While as a lawyer Key helped many black Marylanders obtain their freedom before emancipation, he opposed the idea of free black citizens in the US, and fought to send black Americans to Liberia, the Banner reported. Key is also often quoted as claiming that black Americans are 'a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.' However,  the Star Spangled Banner Foundation has claimed the racist quote is 'Incorrectly credited to Key as a first-person expression of his attitudes about race in the United States.'

Containers are being pulled from a stranded Dali container ship that crashed into Baltimore's Key Bridge, causing the ship's demise, but the 22-man crew is STILL on board

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 8, 2024
Since being slammed into the bridge on March 26, the Dali has been trapped under mangled steel in the Patapsco River, killing six workers. The vessel's crew is still on board nearly two weeks after the incident, with it unknown when they will be able to disembark the ship, which had only been on board for about two weeks when it lost electricity and crashed. According to a statement issued by the Key Bridge Response Unified Command, the containers' removal from the deck of the Dali is expected to continue this week as weather permits. It's a major step toward the reopening of one of the country's main shipping lanes, and crews are progressing toward removing sections of the bridge that lay across the ship's bow, allowing it to move.

Officials predict that tangled rubble would make clearing the task more difficult than expected. Collapsed Baltimore bridge chunks appear on stunning 3D underwater photographs of the riverbed

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 2, 2024
On Monday evening, the Naval Sea System Command of the United States Navy (NAVSEA) released four 3D photographs as crews continue to demolish steel and concrete to clear and reopen the channel. According to NAVSEA officials, the tangled mess of metal would make the clearing mission more difficult than anticipated. These 3D photos depict the full extent of the forthcoming and difficult rescue mission,' NAVSEA said in a tweet.' On March 26, the Dali freight ship lost electricity and control and crashed into the bridge while eight construction workers were filling potholes on the structure.
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