RobertWright

2018

Robert Wright

Robert Seymour Wright is a queer, African Nova Scotian Social Worker and Sociologist, but his first calling was to the church.

Robert started preaching in his Spryfield 7th Day Adventist Church at the age of 14, feeling called to do what he could for his community through a ministry combining education, social work and social justice that brought him as far as the Washington state penal system and back again.

Later in 2007, they came to terms with their queerness forcing them to step away from his leadership role in a church that was distinctly not affirming of queer identities and love. After 17 years or so in secular spaces, as the founding Executive Director of both the Peoples’ Counselling Clinic (Nov. 2017 - March 2024) and the African Nova Scotian Justice Institute (Fall 2021 - March 2024) Robert currently continues at the Peoples’ Counselling Clinic as Director Emeritus, Consultant and Therapist.1

June 17, 2018

CBC piece by Jayde Tynes: A Father Celebrates His 'Unconventional' Family "Robert Wright has many labels: black Nova Scotian, gay, social worker and the list goes on, but he says being a single father comes above it all."

2018

Robert Wright is a social worker whose 28-year career has spanned the fields of child welfare, forensic mental health, trauma, sexual violence and cultural competence. He can now add Halifax Pride Ambassador to his resumé.

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