Ben Todd Jealous is a leader’s leader. He is the first person of color to serve as Executive Director of the Sierra Club – America’s oldest and largest environmental organization.  He was the youngest person to serve as President and CEO of the NAACP – America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization.   Jealous became involved in the environmental movement as a teenager, founding the first high school chapter of the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) and organizing against the clearcutting of redwoods in his native northern California. As the leader of the Sierra Club, Jealous works to grow the environmental movement and connect the fight against the climate and biodiversity crises to the economic fortunes of everyday Americans. He advocates for the need to reinvigorate American manufacturing and the working class by continuing to open domestic factories to build the green technologies that are the foundation of the next economy.  As a civil rights leader, Jealous has been a builder of unlikely yet transformative alliances to restore voting rights, stop predatory lending, reform corporate hiring practices, and save people from death row. He was the Democratic nominee for governor of Maryland in 2018, championing issues such as state-based universal healthcare and ending poverty.  Jealous is a former Rhodes Scholar and the former managing editor of the historic Black community newspaper the Jackson Advocate in Mississippi.  He is currently a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Jealous is also the New York Times bestselling author and editor of Reach: Black Men Speaking on Living, Leading, and Succeeding and his most recent book, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing , has received praise from leaders and news outlets across the political spectrum.