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Guy Weston
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Writer and Consultant, Freelance
New Jersey, Washington
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Biography
Guy Weston recently returned to freelance writing after a substantial career in public health, focusing primarily on HIV programs. His most recent writing is on topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic, health disparities, as well as African American genealogy and history. His earliest work focused on profiling the nascent HIV epidemic during its first decades, as well as LGBTQ issues. From 2017-2019, he was a visiting scholar in the history department at Rutgers University, where he did research on antebellum free African Americans in New Jersey. Part of that research was published in the “Journal of the African American Historical and Genealogical Society.” Under the title “New Jersey: A State Divided on Freedom,” the article recounts fascinating details of free African American communities in southern New Jersey, who represented a majority of African Americans in that region as early as 1790. Guy is one of three children born to Abe Weston, a career military serviceman, and Mary Weston, a homemaker who later became a special education teacher. As a child and young adult, he lived in England, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and the United States, attending nine schools before graduating from high school in New Jersey. Recalling a childhood experience when his family lived in Puerto Rico at Thanksgiving, but was transferred to endure subzero chill factors in North Dakota by January, Weston says his military upbringing helped him to understand the world from multiple vantage points, beginning with his earliest memories. “It’s been an indispensable asset for my work as a writer, as a public speaker, and as a teacher,” he said. “You understand where people are coming from, even when you’re on opposite sides of the debate.” Weston’s next major writing project is a family memoir about free black people in the north, who he believes are “virtually invisible” in the typical presentation of African Americans prior to the Civil War. He points out that free African Americans represented eleven to fourteen percent of the African American population in the decades leading up to the Civil War, noting that “free African Americans like the main character in ‘Twelve Years a Slave’ are not as uncommon as we might think. Guy speaks Spanish with native proficiency.
health disparities African American genealogy and historyCOVID-19 HIV/AIDS
Content
By Guy Weston| ArtsProfessional Verified Imperial War Museum (IWM) has named Sir GUY WESTON Chair, effective 1 April 2024. Weston has been a member of the Board since 2019. As Chair, he succeeds MATTHEW WESTERMAN, Board member at IWM for nine years before becoming Chair in 2019. Weston is also Chair of the Garfield Weston Foundation and Wittington Investments Limited, and a member of the Council at Royal College of Music.
By Guy Weston| The Philadelphia Inquirer Verified When my family moved to Willingboro, N.J., it was our 15th house on four continents in my 14 years. Such is the life of many military families. Perhaps, for this reason, I tend not to form emotional attachments to places. A frequent joke among military “brats” is that we aren’t really from anywhere.
By Brittany Byrd, Guy Weston| Port Arthur News Verified Duo arrested after stolen truck traded away on Facebook By PA News Published 12:29 am Saturday, February 6, 2021 An area man authorities believe is responsible for the 2020 thefts of Ford F250 and F350 trucks was indicted for those charges last week. In addition, his girlfriend was also indicted for felony theft by possession. The Southeast Texas Auto Theft Task Force had been investigating Weston Allen Guy, 32, transient, for the truck thefts, according to the probable cause affidavit. The...
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Freelance
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