President of the Rosenberg Foundation
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- President at Rosenberg Foundation
- Past
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- Director, US Domestic Human Rights Program at Amnesty International
- Executive Director at National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)
- Managing Editor at Jackson Advocate
- Education
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- University of Oxford
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- Connections
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- Industry
- Non-Profit Organization Management
- Websites
Benjamin Todd Jealous’s Summary
I am a civil and human rights advocate who takes the work of building effective advocacy institutions seriously.
After years of front-line work (as a community organizer in Harlem, an investigative reporter in Mississippi, and a leader of national issue campaigns for groups such as Amnesty International and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty), I decided to focus full-time on the nuts and bolts of building stronger social justice organizations.
Today, I serve as President of the Rosenberg Foundation, a more than seventy-year old independent institution that funds advocacy for economic justice and human rights. I also am very active on the board of directors of PowerPAC--a 501(c)4 organization that raises funds for voter education and mobilization.
In addition to occasionally taking leaves of absence from work to help PowerPAC in the field and with fundraising, I stay directly involved in issue advocacy and community education through my writing.
Examples include:
Baltimore Sun--
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.king04apr04,0,4939532.story
BlackPressUSA--
http://www.blackpressusa.com/news/Article.asp?SID=4&Title=Departments&NewsID=15163
The Crisis Magazine--
http://online.qmags.com/TCR0907/?pg=14%20&mode=2
Various Newspapers--
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2003/09/26/usdom12983.htm
Forward to "Beyond the Mountaintop"-- http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/blackworkers/mountaintop_report.pdf
"Threat and Humiliation"-- http://www.amnestyusa.org/racial_profiling/report/rp_report.pdf
(Note: To view any of the above documents please copy the web address and paste it into your browser.)
Benjamin Todd Jealous’s Specialties:
Fundraising, non-profit management, issue campaign strategy, community organizing, and human rights abuse documentation
Benjamin Todd Jealous’s Experience
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President
Rosenberg Foundation
(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
2005 — Present (4 years)
•Leading private 70-year old independent grant-making institution that supports civil rights advocacy
•Redesigned grants program to make space for major new investments in criminal justice reform -
Director, US Domestic Human Rights Program
Amnesty International
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
2002 — 2005 (3 years)
•Lead author of Threat and Humiliation, a report on racial and religious profiling in the US (post 9/11/01) that was covered by media in most states and on 6 continents
•Co-produced Discarded Lives— a ground-breaking report on, and counting of, juveniles sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in the United States
•Coordinated organization’s successful involvement in coalitions to pass anti-prison rape legislation and stop the ‘special registration’ of immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries -
Executive Director
National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)
(Non-Profit; Newspapers industry)
1999 — 2002 (3 years)
•Grew combined annual income of NNPA and NNPAF by more than 400%
•Created web network that significantly increased number of black weeklies publishing on-line
•Increased membership participation in national conferences and events by more than 300% -
Managing Editor
Jackson Advocate
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
1993 — 1995 (2 years)
Benjamin Todd Jealous’s Education
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University of Oxford
MS , Comparative Social Research , 1997 — 1998
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Columbia University in the City of New York
BA , Political Science , 1990 — 1996
- Activities and Societies:
- Black Student Organization, Student Council, Harlem Restoration Project Youth Corps
Additional Information
Benjamin Todd Jealous’s Websites:
Benjamin Todd Jealous’s Honors:
Clarion of Justice Award, National Rainbow Coalition & Operation PUSH
Special Achievement Award, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Exceptional Communicator Award, New California Media
Charles Tisdale Award, Martin Luther King Day Celebration, Jackson, MS
Emerging Leader Award, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
"30 Leaders of the Future", Ebony Magazine
Rhodes Scholarship
Benjamin Todd Jealous’s Contact Settings
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