Benjamin Jealous
Benjamin Todd Jealous is an American venture capitalist, civic leader and former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . He is currently a partner at Kapor Capital, Board Chairman of the Southern Elections Fund and one of the John L. WeinbergGoldman Sachs Visiting Professors at Princeton Universitys Woodrow Wilson School.
Jealous was born in Pacific Grove, California and grew up on the Monterey Peninsula, California. As a child, he spent his summers in the Ashburton neighborhood of Baltimore with his grandparents. His mother, Ann Todd Jealous, who is black, is a retired psychotherapist from Baltimore, Maryland who participated in Western High Schools desegregation. She is also the author, with Caroline Haskell, of Combined Destinies Whites Sharing Grief about Racism, released in April 2013. His father, Fred Jealous, who is white and from New England, founded the Breakthrough Mens Community and participated in Baltimore sitins to desegregate lunch counters. As an interracial couple, it was illegal for them to get married in Maryland until 1967 due to antimiscegenation laws therefore, they had to marry in Washington, DC before returning to Baltimore.
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