Tony Weaver
Tony Weaver
Overview
Tony Weaver Jr. is founder and CEO of Weird Enough Productions a new media production company dedicated to creating positive media images of black men and other minority groups. After training with the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts the Youth Ensemble of Atlanta and the Acting Program at Elon University Tony recognized that there was a severe lack of positive roles for black men. Volunteering with black males in his local community showed him how widespread this misrepresentation was and the devastating effects it was capable of having on minority groups. With the intention of changing the media narrative of black men Tony founded Weird Enough Productions at age 20. Tony has been the recipient of the Leadership Prize and the Black Excellence Award and participated in the NBCUniversal Fellowship Program.
