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Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge (I-MAK) is a research and policy advocacy organization focused on patent laws. It claims that pharmaceutical companies keep drug prices high by gaming the patent system and publishes patent data and reports to support these claims. I-MAK is funded by several left-of-center philanthropies including
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StandWithUs is an international education group founded in 2001 that focuses on promoting Israel to the public. 1 The organization says it fights antisemitism and focuses on student and community educational programs on hundreds of college campuses,
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Mobilization for Justice provides legal services and litigates “test cases” in order to influence public policy relating to immigration, housing, and consumer protection, among others. The organization is based in New York City and has operated since 1962, originally under the name MFY Legal Services in affiliation with the now-defunct
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The Southern Christian Leadership conference is a collection of local chapters located throughout the country that advocates for racial justice and government welfare programs for economic redistribution. Founded by Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization hosts demonstrations against businesses that it claims are engaged in racism and discrimination against African
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The Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) is an organization that conducts interdisciplinary research on theology and its impact on global concerns. CTI focuses on making theology more relevant in conversations about research, and among the public and individuals.
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Adav Noti is the vice president and legal director of the Campaign Legal Center, a left-of-center advocacy group aligned that supports increased regulation of campaign speech and other left-leaning election administration policies.
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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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Ezra Rosenberg is a left-of-center lawyer and advocate for the abolition of voter identification laws among minority communities. He is currently co-director for the left-of-center Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which has sued Texas over the state’s attempts to remove non-citizens from the voting pool and require
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The Secure Elections Network is a left-leaning election policy advocacy organization founded in 2020 that attempts to provide left-leaning election administration activists with training and educational tools around election administration. The organization is staunchly supportive of increasing mail-in balloting as well as a set of election administration policies introduced by
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Sarah Knight is the former vice president of network advancement for the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS), and former director of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) democracy program.
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Sherrilyn Ifill is an academic who worked as the head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) from 2013 until she announced that she would step down from her role in the LDF in late 2021 or early 2022. Her successor will be current associate director counsel
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This profile contains Biden Administration judicial nominations to federal courts. Supreme Court of the United States Ketanji Brown Jackson is a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. She had previously been serving as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at independent agencies of the United States government. Nominations and Appointments AmeriCorps Michael D. Smith is Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service). He most recently served as Executive Director of the My Brother’s
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Nominations and Appointments Wally Adeyemo is Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. He had served most recently as President of the Obama Foundation since August 2019. Before that, he was a Senior
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Justice. Nominations and Appointments Kristen Clarke is Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. Clarke was most recently the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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Whitney Tymas is a left-leaning lawyer and political activist who advocates for radical criminal justice reforms. 1
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The American Bar Association (ABA) is a professional organization that works on behalf of American lawyers. The ABA is responsible for accrediting law schools, setting standards of conduct in the legal profession, and serving as a trade organization for attorneys.
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Not to be confused with the Freedom Foundation, a Washington state-based right-of-center advocacy group. Freedom Foundation of Minnesota is a right-of-center think tank that studies the economic impact of various public policy choices within the state of Minnesota. Issues addressed by the Freedom Foundation include government corruption and economic
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Megan Lewis is a former lobbyist and the co-founder and executive director of the left-of-center Voting Rights Lab. Lewis has experience in state and federal government, in addition to many years of experience working on behalf of left-of-center causes. Most notably, Lewis worked as the executive vice president of
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Ray D. Madoff is a Boston College Law School professor and academic who focuses on modern philanthropy. She is best known for her criticisms of the donor-advised fund (DAF), a popular charitable investment tool which Madoff has claimed is used by wealthy Americans to avoid paying taxes. In 2020, Madoff
