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Winsome McIntosh is the president of the McIntosh Foundation, which primarily funds left-wing environmentalist groups. She helped to found ClientEarth, Rachel’s Network, and The Boat Company. McIntosh has also served on the boards of the League of Conservation Voters, Defenders of Wildlife, and Alliance
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Wren Winslow Wirth is the wife of former U.S. Senator Tim Wirth (D-CO) and a Democratic political activist that advocated for left-of-center environmental policies like population control, the elimination of fossil fuels,19 and the
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Xan Tanner (also known as Alexander Tanner) is the co-founder of Panorama Education, an education analytics company. Tanner is the son-in-law of Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland. In 2021, the connection between the two came under scrutiny as Panorama’s curricula have been criticized by right-leaning journalists
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Xanthe Thomassen is a managing executive director of the National Vote at Home Institute and formerly worked for the same organization as its chief of staff for organization, development and implementation. A former executive at IBM, she also assists the organ-donation advocacy group Kirk Rocky Derichsweiler (KRD) Memorial Foundation
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Xavier Becerra is a Democratic politician, former Congressman, and former attorney general of California, who previously served as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Biden Administration.
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Yael Eisenstat works as the head of the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center for Technology and Society. She advocates for social media platforms to censor alleged misinformation and hateful speech.
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Dr. Yanique Redwood, Ph.D., M.P.H. is the President and CEO of the Consumer Health Foundation. She formally worked for the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Dr. Redwood is an adjunct faculty in the Department of Health Services Administration in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland-College
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Yanis Varoufakis is a radical-left Greek economist and politician who served as Greece’s finance minister in 2015. 88 Varoufakis
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Yasir Qadhi is a Pakistani-American Muslim academic and religious scholar who preaches within the Salafist school of Sunni Islam. In 2011, Qadhi was labeled by the New York Times as “one of the most influential conservative clerics in American Islam.”
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Yasmin Green is the head of research and development of Jigsaw, a division of Alphabet. Green has been called “head international troll slayer at Google.”
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Yochai Benkler is an law professor specializing in analyzing the role of the internet in information production. He is a board member of U.S. Programs at Open Society Foundations, a grantmaking organization created by left-of-center billionaire George Soros. Career On his website, Yochai Benkler lists his first job
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Yoel Roth is a senior employee of the social media company Twitter. His title is “Head of Site Integrity,” a position which involves developing policies related to spam blocking and data protection, as well as the site’s practice of selective censorship and narrative shaping, particularly when it comes to
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Yolanda “Cookie” Parker is a left-wing political activist, the founder and president of KMS Software Company, a software firm specializing in human capital management. Parker serves as a senior advisor at the National Foster Youth Institute. She served on President Barack Obama’s National Finance Committees in 2008 and 2012.
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Yolande P. Marlow, Ph.D. is from Trenton, New Jersey. She is on the National Consortium on Racial and Ethic Fairness in the Courts Board Emeritus. She is a manager in New Jersey Supreme Court Committee Minority Concerns Unit.
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Yuen-Ying Chan is a writer and founder of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at Hong Kong University. She has additionally worked as a journalist for the New York Daily News and NBC News. She has worked as an advisor to The GroundTruth Project, a left-of-center news organization that runs Report for
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Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, is a singer, songwriter, and musician. He rose to prominence in the U.K. beginning in the late 1960s and converted to Islam in 1977. In 1979, he auctioned his guitars off for charity and pivoted to making Islamic music and raising money for
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Yvon Chouinard is the socialist billionaire founder and former owner of Patagonia, a sportswear apparel company known for its environmentalist activism, including donating 1 percent of annual revenue to philanthropic causes (totaling roughly $230 million through 2022).
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Yvonne Garrett is a Democratic political operative and CEO of O’Brien Garrett, a major Democratic-aligned consulting firm in Washington, D.C. Garrett is a former staffer for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign before becoming a consultant for center-left political groups.
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Zach Wamp is a retired former Republican Congressman who, from 1995 to 2011, represented Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. During his tenure, he served on the Committee on Appropriations and was a member of the right-leaning Liberty Caucus (also known as the Liberty Committee). In
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Zack Exley is a former senior adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and co-founder of the left-wing political committees Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress.
