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   On Nov 14, 2022, Jealous was named the executive director of the Sierra Club,   
   the first person of color to hold the position, effective Jan 23, 2023.   
   He was born in 1973 in Pacific Grove, Calif., and grew up on the Monterey   
   Peninsula. His mother, Ann Jealous (née Todd), is biracial. She worked as a   
   psychotherapist and had grown up in Baltimore. She had participated there in   
   the desegregation of    
   Western H.S. She is the author, with Caroline Haskell, of Combined Destinies:   
   Whites Sharing Grief about Racism (2013). His father, Fred Jealous, who is   
   white, is descended from settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, related to   
   businessman Joseph B.    
   Sargent, and directly in line to inherit the fortune from the Sargent and Co   
   business. He founded the Breakthrough Men's Community and participated in   
   Baltimore sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters. Jealous's parents met in   
   Baltimore in 1966. At the    
   time, they did not openly date each other in public; when they went to the   
   movies, they took separate paths to adjacent seats to hide their relationship.   
   As an interracial couple, they were prohibited by state law from marrying in   
   Maryland before 1967.    
   They married in Washington, D.C., and returned to live in Baltimore for a time   
   before moving to California in the early-70s. As a child, Jealous was sent to   
   Baltimore to spend his summers with his maternal grandparents, who lived in   
   the Ashburton    
   neighborhood. Jealous graduated from York School in Monterey, Calif. in 1990.   
      
   Jealous's father was best friends with comedian Dave Chappelle's father, W.D.   
   Chappelle III; as a result, Jealous has been friends with Dave Chappelle since   
   childhood, and the two are god-brothers.   
      
   Jealous earned a B.A. degree in political science from Columbia Univ. A Rhodes   
   Scholar, he later earned a M.S. in comparative social research from St   
   Antony's College, Oxford.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jealous   
      
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