January 19, 2016 - 7 p.m.
Social Justice | “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”
Sponsored by the Office of Academic Success and Intercultural Services
Author Wes Moore is a veteran, Rhodes Scholar and the founder of BridgeEDU. His most recent book, “The Work,” is a New York Times bestselling collection of lessons about what it means to create lives that matter, which has been heralded as a model for how we can weave valuable lessons together from supremely different people in order to forge individual paths to triumph.
Moore’s first book, “The Other Wes Moore,” tells the tale of two kids with the same name living in the same decaying city. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar and White House Fellow after serving in the prestigious 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army. The other is currently serving a life sentence for killing a police officer during an armed robbery. Burning with curiosity as to why he and the other Wes were so radically different, Moore investigated the man with the same name. The result was an instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller that explore the question, “What draws the line between success and failure in our communities?”
Moore has been featured by USA Today, Time Magazine, People Magazine, Meet the Press, The Colbert Report, MSNBC and NPR. He host’s Beyond Belief on the Oprah Winfrey Network, and is the executive producer and host of PBS’s “Coming Back with Wes Moore,” which focuses on the re-integration of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans upon their return home.
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