Benjamin Todd Jealous (born January 18, 1973) is the current president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He is the youngest ever national leader of the organization.
Jealous was born in Pacific Grove, California and grew up in Monterey Peninsula, California. He holds an A.B. in political science from Columbia University and a master's degree in comparative social research from O...
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Benjamin Todd Jealous (born January 18, 1973) is the current president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He is the youngest ever national leader of the organization.
Jealous was born in Pacific Grove, California and grew up in Monterey Peninsula, California. He holds an A.B. in political science from Columbia University and a master's degree in comparative social research from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Jealous went to York School in Monterey for high school.
He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and is affiliated with the Washington (DC) Alumni Chapter.
Currently, Jealous is President of the NAACP. At the time of his appointment, Jealous lived in Alameda, California, with his wife, Lia Epperson, a law professor at American University, and a civil rights attorney, and their daughter, Morgan.
Prior to his appointment, he was President of the Rosenberg Foundation, a private independent...
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