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For-profit
Sojourn Strategies is a political consulting firm that works with left-of-center social policy campaigns, left-progressive nonprofits, and research groups. It was founded by criminal justice activist and former professor Katrina L. Gamble. 1 The firm
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Person
George Gascon is an American attorney and the District Attorney of Los Angeles County. He was elected in 2020 after receiving $2.25 million from George Soros during the campaign, and has been criticized for his left-progressive criminal justice policies.
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Person
Larry Krasner is an American lawyer and the current district attorney of Philadelphia. Born in 1961 in St. Louis, he moved to a suburb outside of Philadelphia when he was 8 years old. He attended the University of Chicago for his undergraduate degree, and he later attended Stanford Law School,
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Other Group
The Prosecutors Alliance of California (PAC) is an advocacy organization that promotes left-progressive reforms to criminal justice policies within the state of California and a project of Tides Advocacy.1 The group was formed in
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Non-profit
Iowa Citizen Action Network (ICAN) campaigns for left-leaning social, economic, and environmental policies, such as Obamacare and expansion of Medicare and Medicaid. 1 Over a two-year period, ICAN received $300,000 from the left-of-center
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Non-profit
U.S. Digital Response (“USDR”) formed during the COVID-19 pandemic to help state and local governments address immediate digital needs by providing volunteer technical expertise. In 2022, it received a grant as part of a controversial program funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that raised concerns about private funding
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Non-profit
Worth Rises, formerly the Corrections Accountability Project at the Urban Justice Center, is a research and advocacy organization focused on dismantling the prison system. 1
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For-profit
Vigil for Democracy is a left-of-center agitation organization that organizes rallies, boycotts, protests, strikes, and other actions to “mass mobilize against tyranny” 1 and advocate for left-of-center policy outcomes.
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Political Party/527
Way to Lead PAC is a left-progressive political action committee founded in 2018 to put progressive candidates in office. 1 A hybrid of federal and state political action committees, the organization targets battleground states in campaigns
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Person
Meredith McGehee is a lobbyist, political consultant, and political commentator primarily concerned with left-of-center campaign finance advocacy. She is the founder of McGehee Strategies, a lobbying firm, and the executive director of left-of-center advocacy group Issue One. Though McGehee is generally aligned with the Democratic Party, she has criticized
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Non-profit
Vote.org is a left-of-center get-out-the-vote organization specifically designed to mobilize minority communities through online communications and resources. 1 Vote.org says it is the “largest 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan voting registration and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) technology platform in America, with the goal of reaching
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Person
Meryl Chertoff is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and the executive director of the Georgetown Project on State and Local Government Policy and Law (SALPAL). 1 Chertoff
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Person
Ethan Rome is a left-of-center campaign director who is known for his activism surrounding taxation, healthcare, and labor unions. He is as of May 2022 chief of strategy and program at Issue One, a cross-partisan organization seeking to affirm views that the 2020 U.S. Presidential elections were “the most
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Person
Avery Davis-Roberts is the associate director of the Carter Center’s Democracy Program, where she has worked since January 2003. She is also a member of the National Task Force of Election Crises and a board member of the Election Reformers Network.
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Person
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the director of policy and strategy at The Emes Project LLC, a project of Starbucks founder and CEO Howard Schultz, that works with the left-of-center Schultz Family Foundation. 1 Prior to
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Non-profit
Secure Elections Project is an election administration and lobbying group that supports left-of-center policies that it claims will restore confidence in the vote and expand access to the polls.
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Non-profit
Women’s March Action (WMA) is a lobbying and advocacy group for left-of-center political and cultural movements. It is largely concerned with national issues and policies related to feminism and engages in education and engagement to bring more attention to these issues.
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Person
Laura Williamson, a left-of-center activist, is the associate director for policy and research in the area of democracy reform for Demos, a think tank with close ties to the self-described “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party. Background Prior to joining Demos, Williamson participated in voting rights-related advocacy, organizing,
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Person
Delilah Rothenberg is a financial advisor and political activist. She is the co-founder and executive director of the Predistribution Initiative (PDI), an organization which pressures financial services providers to choose their investments in ways that advance left-progressive causes. Rothenberg has previously worked on a broad range of international government and
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Person
Hauwa Ahmed is a legislative affairs associate in the Biden White House. 1 The Office of Legislative Affairs serves as the President’s primary liaison to Congress, working to advance the President’s legislative agenda.
