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Ben Jealous, Partner, Kapor Capital, former CEO, NAACP
Ben Jealous stepped down from his post at the NAACP at the end of 2013. The youngest president in its history, he began his career at age 18 opening mail at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Jealous has been a leader of successful state and local movements to ban the death penalty, outlaw racial profiling, defend voting rights, secure marriage equality, and free multiple wrongfully incarcerated people. He has been named to the 40 under 40 lists of both Forbes and Time magazines. He is #1 on TheRoot.com’s 2013 list of black leaders under 45. He holds a BA from Columbia University and a MA from the University of Oxford , where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Ben Jealous stepped down from his post at the NAACP at the end of 2013. The youngest president in its history, he began his career at age 18 opening mail at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Jealous has been a leader of successful state and local movements to ban the death penalty, outlaw racial profiling, defend voting rights, secure marriage equality, and free multiple wrongfully incarcerated people. He has been named to the 40 under 40 lists of both Forbes and Time magazines. He is #1 on TheRoot.com’s 2013 list of black leaders under 45. He holds a BA from Columbia University and a MA from the University of Oxford , where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
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