Benjamin Jealous
| Benjamin Jealous | |
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Jealous in April 2017
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| President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | |
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In office September 1, 2008 – November 1, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Dennis Courtland Hayes |
| Succeeded by | Lorraine C. Miller |
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| Born |
Benjamin Todd Jealous January 18, 1973 Pacific Grove, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
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| Alma mater |
Columbia University (A.B.) Oxford University (M.A.) |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
Benjamin Todd Jealous (born January 18, 1973) is an American venture capitalist, civic leader, and former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He is a partner at Kapor Capital, Board Chairman of the Southern Elections Fund and one of the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs Visiting Professors at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.
Jealous was selected at age 35 as the youngest-ever national leader of the NAACP. He was credited with reviving the organization by Forbes magazine, Time, The Nonprofit Times, and others. In 2013, Jealous was named a Young Global Leader by the Davos World Economic Forum. The Washington Post in 2013 described him as "one of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders."
In 2014 Jealous became a senior partner at Kapor Capital, a firm that leverages the tech sector to create progressive social change. He also joined the Center for American Progress as a senior fellow. He first endorsed Bernie Sanders in his 2016 campaign for U.S. President, supporting Hillary Clinton after she was nominated as candidate by the Democratic Party.
Benjamin Jealous was born in 1973 in Pacific Grove, California and grew up on the Monterey Peninsula. His mother, Ann (Todd) Jealous, is black. She worked as a psychotherapist and had grown up in Baltimore, Maryland. She had participated there in the desegregation of Western High School. She is the author, with Caroline Haskell, of Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief about Racism (2013). His father, Fred Jealous, is white and from New England. He founded the Breakthrough Men's Community and participated in Baltimore sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters. Jealous' parents met in Baltimore. As an interracial couple, they were prohibited by state law from marrying in Maryland before 1967. They married in Washington, DC and returned to live in Baltimore for a time before moving to California in the early 1970s. As a child, Jealous was sent to Baltimore to spend his summers with his maternal grandparents, who lived in the Ashburton neighborhood.
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