Benita Fitzgerald Mosley

Benita Fitzgerald Mosley is the new Chief Executive Officer of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA. Fitzgerald Mosley won the gold medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympic Games, becoming the first African-American woman and second American to accomplish the feat. She was one of eight athletes selected to carry the Olympic flag into the stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Currently Chief of Organizational Excellence for the US Olympic Committee (USOC) and a member of the International Olympic Committee Women in Sport Commission, she immediately pledged as CEO to expand the work of Laureus USA, which uses sport as the means to improve the lives of young people.