Dr. Keith Jennings

Keith Jennings is the president and founder of the African American Human Rights Foundation, a United States based organization dedicated to the promotion of international human rights standards. The Rights Foundation functions as a clearinghouse on human rights issues for the African American community and various Black movements led by people of African descent in the Americas. The foundation is especially concerned with economic, social and cultural rights.

Dr. Jennings has worked most recently as a Country Director in Indonesia for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Coordinator of NDI’s Civil Society development programs in Asia. Prior to that, he was the Director of Civic Participation Programs for NDI, serving as the institute’s principal in-house global expert on programs to strengthen the participation of civic groups and citizens in the political process. He has promoted democratic consolidations and good governance programs in Angola, Bosnia, Cambodia, East Timor, Egypt, Haiti, Guyana, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Lesotho, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Slovakia, Thailand, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Dr. Jennings was the National Coordinator of the World Council of Churches’ human rights campaign on racism in the United States. He has held numerous other positions at organizations including Amnesty International USA, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Children’s Defense Fund, National Rainbow Coalition, the American Friends Service Committee, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, NAACP National Voter Fund and the Coalition of Black Trade Unionist. Dr. Jennings holds a Masters and Ph.D degree in Political Science and International Relations.