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Burns Weston

BURNS WESTON
At a young age, Burns Weston learned that his father had been kicked out of his fraternity in college because he befriended a black man. The conscious anger that arose from this revelation—and a firm belief that no one on the planet has a greater claim to life and human dignity than anyone else—sparked Weston's lifelong passion for global human rights.

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