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Walter E. Hussman, Jr. is the publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and was chairman of WEHCO Media, a privately owned communications company that owns 10 daily newspapers, including the Democrat-Gazette and the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times-Free Press, seven weekly newspapers, and seven cable TV systems, from 1981 until 2016.
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Walter J. Haas, also known as Wally Haas, is an American businessman and a son of Walter A. Haas Jr. and Evelyn D. Haas, founders of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund (also known as the Haas Jr. Fund), a private foundation that provides grants primarily to left-of-center
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Warren Buffett is the chief executive of investment corporation Berkshire Hathaway and is credited as one of the most successful investors of all time.22 According to Forbes, Buffett was the second-richest person in the
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Wayne Harris is the executive board chairman of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership, an advocacy group opposing drug prohibition and supporting left-of-center criminal justice policy. 44 Harris is a retired deputy chief
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Wayne Jordan is the founder and president of Jordan Real Estate Investments and a major donor to Democratic political and left-of-center advocacy causes. Along with his wife, Quinn Delaney, Jordan is the co-founder and secretary-treasurer of the Akonadi Foundation, a left-of-center racial-advocacy grantmaking group primarily focused in Oakland.
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Wayne Pacelle is the founder and executive director of Animal Wellness Action (AWA), a left-of-center animal rights lobbying and electoral advocacy group. Pacelle was previously the president and CEO of the then-Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), now called Humane World for Animals, and founder of the
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Wayne Spence is the president of the Public Employees Federation. 97
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Wendy Abrams is an American environmentalist activist.
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Wendy Grubbs is a board member of American Action Forum. She was formerly a special assistant to President George W. Bush.
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Wendy Schmidt is an American philanthropist and the wife of Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and chairman of Google holding company Alphabet. Wendy and her husband are involved in a number of philanthropic endeavors that not only fund left-of-center environmentalism and human rights initiatives but
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Wendy Weiser is a left-leaning attorney and elections activist who currently works as the director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a left-leaning think tank and legal activist organization housed at the New York University Law School. Weiser’s work at the Brennan Center focuses around
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Wendy Wendlandt is president of the Center for Public Interest Research and senior vice president of the Public Interest Network.
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Wenonah Hauter is the founder and the executive director of Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action. 113
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Weston Milliken is a former management consultant and board secretary for the Democracy Alliance, a collective of left-of-center donors that has been active in orchestrating “the activities of a permanent ‘left infrastructure’” since 2004.
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Whitney May is a co-founder and director of government services at the left-of-center Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), a Chicago-based election advocacy organization which pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration.
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Whitney Quesenbery is the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Civic Design and a user experience (UX) professional. She has advocated for reforming American voting systems to improve UX design and improve accessibility, particularly for less-educated voters. Career After earning a bachelor’s degree in English literature from a
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Whitney Tymas is a left-leaning lawyer and political activist who advocates for radical criminal justice reforms. 156
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Wilbur Priester is chief financial officer for the left-leaning philanthropy consulting firm Arabella Advisors. He also serves in this capacity on the boards of Arabella Advisors’ funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofits, including New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, and Windward Fund.
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Will Lippincott is a board member of the Democratic opposition research group American Bridge 21st Century Foundation.
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Will Menaker is one of three co-founders and regular co-hosts of Chapo Trap House (Chapo), a for-profit socialist podcast. As of March 2019, Chapo was grossing more than $120,000 per month through the website Patreon.
