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Jonah is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Stand for Children, a growing and influential political voice for students. Jonah hails from a family of civil rights leaders – his mother, Marian Wright Edelman, was the first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi bar and his father, Peter Edelman, was a close aide to Robert F. Kennedy. In 1996 Jonah was a key organizer of Stand for Children's historic founding rally in Washington, DC. At 300,000 attendees, it was the largest rally for children in American history. Jonah was recognized on Time.com as one of the nation’s top education activists in 2011.