Maryland Governor
Wes Moore
Democratic
43
Baltimore City
Candidate for governor, former CEO, combat veteran, and small business owner.
After graduating high school at Valley Forge Military Academy, Wes graduated with an Associate's Degree from Valley Forge Military College in 1998 and then Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. He then went on to become a Rhodes scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford, earning his Master's in International Relations.
Although my career has not yet led me to public office, it has led me through every sector of the American economy. I volunteered to deploy to Afghanistan, where I led soldiers in combat as a captain and a paratrooper. I built and ran a small business in Baltimore focused on helping first-generation college students succeedóhelping to improve retention rates by 20%. In my most recent role as CEO of one of the largest anti-poverty nonprofits in the United States, we invested over $600 million, created the first public policy wing in the 30-year-history of the organization, and worked the halls of government advocating for the child tax credit, better pay for child care providers, and fighting hospital networks who sued COVID patients. Above all, we were data-driven and heart-led; we found what works, we invested in it, and we scaled it.
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