Benjamin Todd Jealous

Benjamin Todd Jealous became the youngest national leader of the NAACP on September 1, 2008. During his career he has served as president of the Rosenberg Foundation, director of the U.S. Human Rights Program at Amnesty International, and executive director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, or NNPA, a federation of more than 200 black community newspapers.

From his early days of organizing voter registration drives to his nomination and election as NAACP president, Jealous has been motivated by civic duty and a constant need to improve the lives of America's under-represented. A graduate of Columbia University, Jealous is also a Rhodes scholar, holding a master's degree in comparative social research from Oxford University.