Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. is an American minister, community activist, and hip-hop connoisseur. He currently serves as CEO and President of the Hip Hop Caucus and Hip Hop Caucus Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the National Director for the Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign, and Co-Director of Cities for Progress. Reverend Yearwood was also the National Grassroots and Political Director for the Russell Simmons' Hip Hop Summit Action Network, and was a Senior Consultant for Sean “Diddy” Combs Citizen Change, and Jay Z's Voice Your Choice, where he provided a national template for engaging the Hip-Hop generation in community-building dialogues. He was also the founder of Hip Hop Voices, a subsidiary of Voices for Working Families (AFL-CIO), and the Hip Hop U.N., which is a coalition of all the Hip Hop Political organizations throughout the world.
