Benjamin Todd Jealous is executive director of the Sierra Club. Formerly national president and CEO of the NAACP, Jealous has led two of the nation’s most influential groups pursuing equity and justice and protecting democracy and the environment. At the NAACP, he created pathbreaking partnerships with conservative leaders and Republican governors to help shrink America’s prison system as well as expand voting rights and employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated people. Jealous previously was executive director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. He is a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding and Never Forget Our People Were Always Free. In 2013, The Washington Post hailed him as “one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders.”