Center stage - Front Row - Marc H. Morial

MARC H. MORIAL

President And CEO National Urban League

MARC H. MORIAL, who served two terms as mayor of New Orleans, is the new president and CEO of the National Urban League, one of the nation's oldest and largest community-based civil rights groups. In his new position, Morial heads an organization with an annual budget of more than $40 million and 100 affiliates across the nation serving an estimated 2 million people. "My task is not to fix a broken organization--the Urban League is in good health," Morial says. "My task is to make it better to improve it, to lift it, to go to the next level." Morial says one of his first priorities is increase the visibility of the National Urban League. "It's important," he says, "that we reconnect the Urban League to many people, particularly a [younger] generation who may not be as in tune with what the League did for much of its almost 100 years." Morial graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University Law School, and served in the Louisiana state senate before being elected mayor in 1994. He is the son of Ernest (Dutch) Morial, New Orleans' first Black mayor and Sybil Morial, a teacher and university administrator. The 45-year-old lawyer and his wife, TV broadcaster Michelle Miller, have a 1-year-old son, Mason. Morial also has a 21-year-old daughter, Kemah.

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