United Way exec to depart, will lead Muhammad Ali Center in Kentucky

Marilyn Jackson, chief strategy and engagement officer at the United Way of Metro Chicago, has beed named president and CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky. She becomes first woman to permanently hold that leadership role at the organization. Jackson will begin with the center on Jan. 17, Ali’s birthday. Jackson steps into the CEO spot following Donald Lassere’s resignation in March. Since then, Laura Douglas, who was the center’s chairwoman of the board, has served in…