ARNOLD, Md. — Nationally known speaker, author, social entrepreneur, producer and decorated U.S. Army officer, Wes Moore, will deliver the keynote address at the 36th Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast on Monday, January 16, 2017 in the David S. Jenkins Gymnasium on Anne Arundel Community College’s Arnold campus.
The theme of this year’s breakfast is “Making the Dream a Reality.” Doors open and food is available at 7:30 a.m., with the program beginning promptly at 8 a.m. Participants are asked to bring canned goods to be donated to the Anne Arundel County Food and Resources Bank.
Baltimore-born Moore is the author of “The Other Wes Moore” and “The Work,” both of which are New York Times Bestsellers. He has been featured by USA Today, Time Magazine, People Magazine, “Meet the Press,” “The Colbert Report,” MSNBC and NPR, among many other media outlets. Moore is also the host of “Beyond Belief” on the Oprah Winfrey Network, and the executive producer and host of PBS’s “Coming Back with Wes Moore,” which focuses on the re-integration of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with their return home. In September, he started a new hour-long monthly program called “Future City” on Baltimore’s NPR news station WYPR. Moore is the founder and CEO of BridgeEdU, a national initiative focusing on college completion and career placement by reinventing the freshman year of college.
Tickets for the breakfast are $35. They are available on Eventbrite or by contacting Eugene Peterson at 301-538-0887 or Erica Matthews at 443-761-9734. Make checks payable to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Committee and mail to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Committee, Attn: Erica Matthews, P.O. Box 6412, Annapolis, MD 21401.