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Hi I'm Gail nobles. Did you know that the governor of Maryland was not only a politician but an investment banker, author television producer, and nonprofit executive serving as the 63rd of Maryland since 2023? His name is Wes Moore. A member of the democratic party, he is the first black governor of the state, the third black person elected as governor of any US state, and as of 2023, the only incumbent black governor of any US state.

Born in Maryland and raise largely in New York, Moore graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received a masters degree from Wolfson College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. After several years in the US Army and Army Reserve. Moore became an investment banker in New York between 2010 and 2015. Moore published five books including a young adult novel. He served as CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation from 2017 to 2021. Moore is the author of the other Wes Moore and The Work. He was also the host of Beyond Belief on the Oprah Winfrey Network as well as the executive producer and a writer for Coming Back with Wes Moore on PBS.

Today I'm going to share with you with more on his service in the war in Afghanistan recorded on April 23, 2009.