Barry Rand has had a long, successful career as the man in the grey flannel suit. But when he looks in the mirror, he sees “a son of the ’60s.”
“My life has always been about service and social change,” Rand says.
That’s what AARP, the nation’s leading advocacy group for people age 50 and older, was looking for when it tapped Rand, a former Xerox executive and civic leader, to succeed William Novelli as CEO.
Rand, 64, whose appointment as AARP’s first African-American CEO is being announced today, says the civil rights struggles of the 1960s formed the guiding principles of his life.
“The ’60s to me was a transformational time” of working for civil rights for “women, people of color, the poor and the aged. That’s what I was born into and became an activist in at the time.”
Source: USA Today
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