Wes Moore
Wes Moore was elected Maryland governor in 2022. In 2005, Moore deployed to Afghanistan as a captain with the 82nd Airborne Division. He is Maryland’s first Black Governor in the state’s 246-year history. Moore built and launched a Baltimore-based business called BridgeEdU, which reinvented freshman year of college for underserved students to increase their likelihood of long-term success. BridgeEdu was acquired by the Brooklyn-based student financial success platform, Edquity, in 2018.