Lamell McMorris has been named vice chairman of the NAACP’s Executive Search Committee to select a new president and CEO following the resignation of Ben Jealous. He is founder and CEO of Perennial Strategy Group, a Washington, D.C.-based government relations firm. He has served as a senior advisor to both Rev. Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King III and is a member of the board of the Executive Committee of the National Action Network led by Rev. Al Sharpton.
