Benjamin Jealous, the president of the NAACP will step down from his position in January.
“As others questioned its vitality, we have been able to regrow the mightiest of all trees in the ecology of social justice,” Jealous told The Washington Post. “I’m really going to miss the street fights we’ve been in.”
Jealous said that his NAACP tenure was a sprint that has left the organization with more technological savvy and on sounder financial footing.
Jealous said he will spend more time with his 13-month-old son and 7-year-old daughter and is considering teaching offers from several universities. He wants to school young people in the tactics of social change. (His wife teaches constitutional law at American University.) The departure from the nonprofit world will also allow Jealous to start a partisan pursuit with which he has longed to involve himself.
There is a rising generation of leaders coming up behind Obama, Jealous said, and he wants to help raise money to fund their political campaigns.
Information from The Washington Post contributed to this report.
