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Ricardo Castro is a left-of-center nonprofit attorney working as the general counsel of the International Rescue Committee. He has previously worked in various senior legal roles for prominent left-of-center organizations, including the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, Consumer Reports, and the Clinton Foundation. Background
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Melissa L. Bradley is an investor, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist. She is the founder of 1863 Ventures, a business development fund that invests in whom it calls “black and brown entrepreneurs” so that the “New Majority” can “build wealth.”
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The Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Integrity (also known as MSIntegrity and MSI Integrity) is a left-of-center nonprofit based in Berkley, California that acts as a watchdog for so-called multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs). MSIs are collaborations — often international in character — between governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations to address issues of
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Moises Naim is a Venezuelan author, journalist, and the former Minister of Trade and Industry of Venezuela in the government of Carlos Andres Perez. He was the director of Venezuela’s Central Bank and an executive director of the World Bank.
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Morton Halperin is an activist and political advisor who has worked for the Nixon, Johnson, and Clinton administrations. He sits on the board of directors for ONE Action, is the chair emeritus for J Street, was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and
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Luna Yasui is a left-of-center political activist who has previously worked for nonprofit and private funds. 1 2 In April 2021,
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Co-Equal is a left-of-center activist group that pushes for increased funding and staffing of federal agencies which provide research and policy advice to Congress, such as the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Research Service. Co-Equal also advocates for increasing the staffs of congressional committees. The organization claims that
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Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a state-run voter monitoring system in which states periodically submit their voter rolls for review to identify incorrect and outdated voter information. Its membership consists of state-level election officials from 31 states and Washington, D.C.
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Center for Humane Technology (CHT), formerly known as Time Well Spent, is a group that supports restrictions on social media to combat supposed political extremism and the negative psychological effects of internet usage. CHT considers the current form of social media to be a major societal problem that needs to
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Bill Vandenberg is a program director for the Open Society Foundations (OSF), a left-of-center private grantmaking organization that forms the core of George Soros’s Soros Network of advocacy philanthropy institutions. He helps oversee OSF’s grantmaking among state-level organizations.
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Aryeh Neier is a left-of-center political activist, a co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society and Human Rights Watch, and the former president of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF). Early Life and Education Aryeh Neier was born in Berlin in 1937. His parents, both Jews,
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Anya Schiffrin is the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is also a member of the global board at George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
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Alvin Starks is the strategic initiatives director for the NAACP and the director of the Open Society-U.S. Equality team at the Open Society Institute (OSI) of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF). In 2021, he coauthored an op-ed with Democracy Alliance head Pamela Shifman
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Angela Kelley is an American left-progressive legal activist and policy analyst. She works as a senior advisor to the American Immigration Lawyers Association, an organization of approximately 15,000 activist lawyers supporting increased immigration to the United States, arguing that increased immigration will help the economy. Kelley has been involved
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Annette Laborey is a German-French activist and long-time associate of billionaire left-of-center philanthropist George Soros. Laborey started her activism career with a focus on Eastern Europe. According to The New Republic, she became a friend of Soros in the 1980s, when he offered to fund one of her
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Anatole Kaletsky is an economist and financial journalist. He is the co-chairman of the investment research and financial management firm Gavekal. He also sits on the global board of the Open Society Foundations, (OSF) a major international grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and left-of-center philanthropist
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Antonio Maciel is a teacher in New York City with an extensive background in left-of-center activism and organizing. He currently teaches English as a Second Language (ESL), sometimes called English as a New Language, to middle school students. Previously, he spent nearly a decade as a consultant to left-of-center philanthropic
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Allison Barlow is a program director at the Wallace Global Fund, a left-of-center organization supporting environmentalist causes and working to reduce corporate influence in politics. She has been affiliated with organizations connected to left-of-center juggernauts including the Democracy Alliance and the Open Society Foundations. Barlow is a
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Access Now is a left-leaning internet access and digital rights advocacy group that works to decrease internet censorship and to curtail violations of privacy by businesses that collect the personal data of internet users. This group receives funding from some of the companies whose data collection practices it criticizes, such
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Pamela Shifman is the president of the Democracy Alliance, a collective of influential left-progressive grantmakers that has distributed hundreds of millions of dollars to left-of-center organizations and initiatives. Shifman assumed the position in 2021 following more than two decades in the left-of-center nonprofit industry, during which she worked for
