Gerald Lenoir retired as a strategy analyst at the Othering and Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley. He was the founding executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (2006-2014). He was a co-chair of voter education and GOTV for the 1984 Jesse Jackson Campaign in Seattle and the co-chair of the Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid (1984-1986). He served on the board of Eyewitness Palestine for six years.