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Benjamin Todd Jealous (born January 18, 1973) is an venture capitalist, civic leader and former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He is currently a partner at Kapor Capital and Board Chairman of the Southern Elections Fund.〔Southern Elections Fund. Accessed December 1, 2014. http://www.southernelectionsfund.org/board.〕 Jealous served as the youngest-ever national leader of the NAACP, and earned accolades for reviving the organization by ''Forbes'' magazine, ''Time'' magazine, ''The Nonprofit Times'', and others. In 2013, Jealous was named a Young Global Leader by the Davos World Economic Forum. ''The Washington Post'' in 2013 described him as "one of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders." In 2014 Jealous became a senior partner at Kapor Capital, a firm that leverages the tech sector to create progressive social change. He also joined the Center for American Progress as a senior fellow. ==Childhood and education== Jealous was born in Pacific Grove, California and grew up in 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 School's 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 Men's Community and participated in Baltimore sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters. As an interracial couple, it was illegal for them to get married in Maryland until 1967 due to anti-miscegenation laws; therefore, they had to marry in Washington, DC before returning to Baltimore. Jealous holds a B.A. in political science from Columbia University and a master's degree in comparative social research from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin Jealous」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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