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Person
Dipayan Ghosh is a left-leaning technology policy advisor and computer scientist who currently is a fellow and co-director of the Platform Accountability Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He previously was a White House technology policy advisor
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Other Group
Law for Black Lives (L4BL) is a self-described “political organization” 1 that includes more than “6,000 radical lawyers, legal workers, and law students.”
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Non-profit
For more information on the 2020 election, see Center for Technology & Civic Life (Nonprofit) The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is a coalition of left-of-center election reform nonprofits created in 2022 as an initiative of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to bolster election security
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Person
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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For-profit
Truss Leadership is a for-profit critical race theory-aligned education consultancy run by Joe Truss, a California educator. It offers workshops for public schools and public school districts on “dismantling white supremacy” in schools. Truss Leadership claims to have consulted for nearly 70 schools and 5,000 educators, mostly located in California.
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Non-profit
The World Economic Forum is a business league that primarily organizes annual meetings of international business and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland under the direction of its founder and executive director, University of Geneva business professor Klaus Schwab. Due in part to the group’s ties to influential figures in international
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Person
Sarah Bloom Raskin is a lawyer and fiscal policy administrator in Democratic administrations. She was the deputy secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury in the Obama administration, and has also held a seat on the board of governors of the Federal Reserve. In addition to
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Non-profit
The Meyer Memorial Trust is an Oregon-based left-of-center grantmaking organization founded by funds from the estate of Fred G. Meyer, the owner of the regional grocery store chain Fred Meyer. 1 Since its founding in
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Person
Tope Folarin is an author and left-of-center activist working as the executive director of the left-of-center think tank Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). 1 Early Life He was born as Oluwabusayo
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Person
Gholnecsar “Gholdy” Muhammad is the founder of HILL Pedagogies, an educational services consulting company that promotes and implements critical race theory-inspired concepts in school curriculums and school lesson plans. 1 She is the author of Cultivating
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Non-profit
The Western Center on Law and Poverty (Western Center) is a Los Angeles-based left-of-center and critical race theory-inspired 1 public interest law firm and advocacy
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Non-profit
Access Fund is a left-leaning environmentalist group that advocates for free rock-climbing spaces and works to increase ethnic minority involvement in the rock-climbing community. Access Fund was founded in 1991 to protest U.S. National Park Service restrictions on using rock climbing bolts on cliffs. Since then, the group has expanded
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Person
Jocelyn Benson is a Democratic politician serving as Secretary of State of Michigan as of 2021. Benson was elected in 2018 to a four-year term and oversaw the controversial 2020 election in Michigan. Prior to the election, Secretary Benson announced that the state would mail ballots to all registered voters,
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Non-profit
LatinXCEL Fund is a fund focused on increasing aid targeted specifically at the Latino community in Silicon Valley, California. LatinXCEL Fund is a three-year initiative housed within Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) and created with help from the Castellano Family Foundation (CFF). The Fund launched in May of 2021,
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the Executive Office of the President. Nominations and Appointments Jen O’Malley Dillon is White House Deputy Chief of Staff. She was Campaign Manger for Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, and prior to that for Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign. She was a
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For-profit
Uber Technologies is an American technology company best known for its ridesharing and restaurant delivery services. Founded in 2009, Uber became one of the most successful startups in history and a leading company in Silicon Valley. As of January 2021, Uber was valued at over $80 billion.
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Non-profit
Chalkbeat is a left-of-center nonprofit media organization that is focused on local reporting on education issues in the United States. Since 2020, the organization has embraced critical race theory-inspired “antiracist” activism and regularly reports on the use of critical race theory in teaching and efforts to bar it from public
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Political Party/527
The Black Panther Party was a communist Black militant organization founded in 1966 that allied with extremist New Left organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and communist regimes abroad.
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Non-profit
Time’s Up Now is the lobbying and advocacy wing of the left-of-center Time’s Up Foundation. Time’s Up Now has advocated for policies that extend the statute of limitations in rape cases,
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Person
Robert Smith is a billionaire American businessman, financier, and philanthropist who amassed his fortune as the founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. As of April 2021, Smith was the wealthiest Black American, with a net worth of $6 billion.
