Benjamin Jealous

CEO and President, NAACP

Benjamin Jealous served as president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, an organization of over two hundred historically black-owned newspapers, as director of Amnesty International’s U.S. Human Rights Program, where his work addressed, among other issues, anti-Arab racial profiling in the wake of 9/11, and as president of the Rosenberg Foundation, focusing on immigrant rights and critical justice reform. He was elected the 17th President of the NAACP, the youngest to ever hold the office in the organization's 100-year history.