He also currently sits as the Chair for the Community Advisory Board at the Toronto South Detention Center. He is also currently developing evidence-based research to inform rehabilitation counselling, residential treatment, interventions for gang-exit and offender desistance, as well as prevention programmes and policy that relate to sexual orientation, gender identity, gender and gender presentation, especially among racialized youth, for former and current LGBT gang-involved and incarcerated young adults. Wesley is an interdisciplinary youth scholar and community social justice activist who works with socially and economically disadvantaged youth, engaging in youth community empowerment.