Tony Weaver – Improving the misrepresentation of black men

Improving the misrepresentation of black men in the media with Weird Enough Production, Tony Weaver

Tony Weaver is the founder and CEO of Weird Enough Production, a media organization that produces media pictures of people of color and other minority gatherings. The center is to make positive pictures, something that Weaver saw was seriously inadequate.

He is a writer and an author making assorted stories that cause youngsters to feel seen and esteemed. Subsequent to seeing the effect that media generalizations had on understudies locally, Tony left on an excursion to make new media stories that would shake things up. What began as a school project turned into a public stage that landed him on the TED Stage, within the sight of world pioneers, and acquired him acknowledgment from any semblance of Taraji P. Henson, Lebron James, and Lena Waithe at 25 years old.

Subsequent to preparing with the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, the Youth Ensemble of Atlanta, and the Acting Program at Elon University, Tony perceived that there was a serious absence of positive jobs for people of color. Chipping in with dark guys in his neighborhood local area showed him how inescapable this distortion was, and the overwhelming impacts it was equipped for having on minority gatherings. Determined to change the media story of individuals of color, Tony established Weird Enough Productions at age 20. He established this association at just 20 while having a strong arrangement for how to do it after an entry level position and intends to address the gross deception of individuals of color in the media. He’s stood out from various media organizations and keeps on pushing the needle on portrayal. Through Weird Enough, Tony fostered The UnCommons, an honor winning webcomic that draws in more than 40,000 youngsters month to month.

Tony has been the beneficiary of the Leadership Prize and the Black Excellence Award, and took an interest in the NBCUniversal Fellowship Program. In 2018, Tony left a mark on the world as the first comic writer to at any point be chosen for the Forbes “30 Under 30.” He was named a History Shaker by Coca Cola, a Global Barrier Breaker by Marriott International, and granted the Aspire Award from AT&T. Tony has likewise worked with brands like Facebook, Instagram and American Express.