People (Page 12)


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    Barbara Sargent

    Barbara Sargent is a left-of-center philanthropist living in California. Along with her husband, Tom Sargent, Sargent has formed multiple left-of-center foundations. Most notably, Sargent formed the Kalliopeia Foundation, a left-of-center grantmaking organization that funds environmentalist policies, left-of-center Native American interests, and expanded immigration policies. Sargent has poured over $67,625,194
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    Barbara Simons

    Barbara Simons is a computer scientist who serves on the board of Verified Voting, a nonprofit that advocates against electronic voting. Simons is an outspoken supporter of paper ballots, serving on the Board of Advisors to the United States Election Assistance Commission. In addition to her work on election administration,
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    Barbara Stiefel

    Barbara Stiefel is an heiress of Stiefel Medicinal Soap Company, left-progressive advocacy philanthropist, and Democratic political donor.
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    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand is a singer, screen and stage actor, movie director, and philanthropist.47 She has been active in support of left-of-center politics and the Democratic Party throughout her career, and she created the Barbra Streisand
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    Barre Seid

    Barre Seid is a Chicago industrialist and former owner of Tripp Lite, which makes surge protectors. In 2021, Tripp Lite was acquired by Eaton for $1.65 billion in a transaction that involved transferring control of Tripp Lite to the Marble Freedom Trust, a social welfare organization which then sold the
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    Barry Fadem

    Barry Fadem is a center-left election lawyer, co-founder of the advocacy group National Popular Vote, and a board member for the anti-Electoral College think tank Institute for Research on Presidential Elections.
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    Barry Steinhardt

    Barry Steinhardt is a left-progressive civil liberties and privacy activist who has held a number of positions with the ACLU and its state-level affiliates.
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    Becky Bond

    Becky Bond is an American socialist author and activist who was the former political director of CREDO Mobile. In March, 2019, the Washington Examiner reported that Bond had joined Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign for President as an adviser.
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    Becky Pringle

    Rebecca Pringle is a teacher and teachers’ union officer working as the president of the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest labor union. Pringle has been an outspoken opponent of reopening schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic, even to the point of supporting teacher strikes against school districts. Pringle worked
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    Becky Wasserman

    Rebecca “Becky” Wasserman is the director of government relations at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)87 and a self-described “organizer for racial and economic justice.”
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    Ben Cohen

    Ben Cohen is the co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream and a noted political activist who uses his company’s brand and resources to promote far-left politics. He supported U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 campaigns for president, serving as a national co-chair for the 2020
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    Ben de Guzman

    Ben de Guzman is a left-wing activist that works to promote Asian American-Pacific Islander and LGBT interests. Guzman currently serves as the director of Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs. Guzman previously served as the Community Outreach Specialist in the Mayor’s
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    Ben Goldhirsh

    Ben Goldhirsh is a left-progressive social activist and entrepreneur best known for creating the liberal news-commentary website Upworthy. He is the former CEO of Good Ventures and chairs his personal foundation, the Goldhirsh Foundation.
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    Ben Jealous

    Ben Jealous is a political activist, president of the left-of-center advocacy group People for the American Way (PFAW) and People for the American Way Foundation, and the former president and CEO of the NAACP.
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    Ben Manski

    Ben Manski is a far-left nonprofit organizer, activist, and campaigner for the Green Party. Manski is also an assistant professor of sociology at George Mason University in Northern Virginia. 148 In an interview about the
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    Ben Palmquist

    Ben Palmquist is the campaign manager of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI). He is also on the advisory committee of Our Story Hub, a project of the Proteus Fund which advises left-of-center politicians and groups on communications strategies.
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    Ben Rhodes

    Ben Rhodes is a left-of-center political commentator, author, and podcast host who worked for the Obama 2008 presidential campaign and as the Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting in the Obama administration for the entire duration of Barack Obama’s presidency. Rhodes was involved with
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    Ben Sherwood

    Ben Sherwood is a television journalist who worked as president of ABC News from 2015 until 2019.
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    Ben Silbermann

    Ben Silbermann is a billionaire donor and former technology executive who co-founded the social media sharing site Pinterest and served as its CEO from its founding until stepping down from the company in 2022. Together with his wife Divya Silbermann, he has signed Warren Buffett’s “Giving Pledge” where high
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    Ben Walton

    Ben Walton is a left-of-center philanthropist and businessman based in Denver, Colorado. He is the grandson of Walmart founder Sam Walton. Walton is the co-founder and creator of Zomalab, his family office, which houses his investment firm Zoma Capital. The firm invests in companies tackling environmental and social problems,