Brian Tolleson

Interim CEO
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Atlanta, GA


Brian Tolleson is the Interim CEO at The National Center for Civil and Human Rights and was most recently a partner at Lexicon Strategies and digital content studio, BARK BARK. Brian is also no stranger to being a civil and human rights activist. He, along with an incredibly small team, lead the creative pitch, creation of the brand, the brand strategy and successful greenlight and launch of MTV Network's, Logo, the first-ever 24/7/365 media brand for LGBT Americans and later co-created and sold the first-ever YouTube channel for an LGBT audience funded in part by Google Labs. Brian has been involved with NCCHR since its earliest days, and has served on its Board for the last several years.