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Damon Williams is an education advisor and the former chief officer for diversity, equity, and educational achievement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1 He works as a diversity consultant and receives public
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The State Education Resource Center (SERC) is a quasi-public agency based in Connecticut that was created under state law to serve the Connecticut Board of Education. Its employees are not state employees. 1 SERC
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Seth Andrew is a former left-of-center political operative, former advisor to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan in the Obama administration, and founder of several educational organizations including Democracy Prep Public Schools and Democracy Builders Fund.
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Sanjay Reddy is an associate professor of economics at the New York City-based New School, a notably left-progressive institution of higher education. 1 Reddy has also worked at Barnard College,
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Ken Zimmerman is the director of the mental health strategic impact initiative at the Jed Foundation, adjunct assistant professor of urban planning at New York University (NYU), and a fellow at the NYU Furman Center, NYU’s research center for urban policy. Zimmerman was previously the director of U.S. programs at
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Young America’s Foundation (YAF) is a conservative outreach organization that promotes free enterprise, individual freedom, a strong national defense, and traditional values. 1 YAF’s projects include Young Americans for Freedom, the National Journalism Center, and
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State Street Global Advisors is a large investment management company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts that manages more than $3.89 trillion in global assets. The firm is among the largest money management firms in the world and employs 40,000 employees across 40 global offices. The firm was founded in 1978 and
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Rashida Bumbray is a choreographer and performance artist who is the head of culture and art programs at the Open Society Foundations, a large grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and left-leaning philanthropist George Soros. Bumbray joined the Open Society Foundations in 2015 and was promoted to
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Chesa Boudin is a lawyer and the former district attorney of San Francisco. In 2022, Boudin was recalled from office.1 Boudin was the child of two members
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The Just Trust is a left-of-center grantmaking organization established and funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). The group was spun off from the CZI to manage its criminal justice policy efforts. After receiving $350 million in starter funds, The Just Trust has been fiscally managed by the
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John Lenssen and Associates (JLA) is a left-of-center education consultancy founded and operated by John Lenssen, an adjunct professor at several Oregon universities and former employee of the states of Oregon and Washington. JLA offers guidance on the development of strategies to advance critical race theory-aligned “diversity, equity and inclusion”
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Mark Anthony Gooden is an educator whose research includes educational leadership and critical race theory-aligned anti-racism in schools. After an initial career teaching mathematics, Gooden’s focus shifted to educational leadership, equity and race, and diversity programs. In the past decade, Gooden began teaching at seminars and doing consulting work on
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The Hackman Consulting Group is a critical race theory-aligned diversity, equity, and inclusion consultancy based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that was founded by Heather Hackman. It promotes solidarity with the Black Lives Matter and Not Your Mascots movements
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Fund for Constitutional Government (FCG) is an advocacy organization focused on exposing and addressing government corruption in the United States. It conducts research, public education, and litigation and funds organizations through a series of projects dedicated to increasing government transparency and addressing corruption. Many large left-of-center foundations and charitable organizations
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The White Coat Waste Project is an animal rights group and taxpayer watchdog that investigates and reports on government-funded animal-based experiments. The organization was the first to point out that U.S. tax dollars were being used to fund research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.
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Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility (MCTSR), originally called Educators for Social Responsibility Metro, is a consulting company which assists schools primarily in New York City in implementing social and emotional learning (SEL), restorative practices (RP), and racial equity practices.
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CORE Districts is a consortium of eight urban school districts in California. CORE Districts develops procedures, practices, and research and provides data on school and student progress. While member districts do pay for part of the expenses, left-of-center foundations provide much of the funding to CORE Districts. History CORE Districts
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Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium (MAEC) is a nonprofit consulting group that provides critical race theory-aligned diversity and “antiracist” training and seminars to schools. MAEC has been called “one of the country’s most prominent antiracist auditing nonprofits.” The group provides “technical training” to schools across the country, often in the form of
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David Rothkopf is a left of center podcaster, writer, and consultant whose firm, The Rothkopf Group, conducts work on behalf of the embassy of the government of the United Arab Emirates, among other clients. He has a history of making inflammatory statements about former president Donald Trump and Republicans in
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The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies, or DFI, is a right-leaning nonprofit organization that focuses on education, labor, and employment issues. It also supports limiting the power of federal agencies and government-sector unions.
