Search results for ‘ACLU’


  • Person

    Sophia L. Lakin

    Sophia Lin Lakin is deputy director of the Voting Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in New York City. 1 She’s an attorney registered with the state of New York.
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    Lillian’s List Action Fund

    Lillian’s List Action Fund (Lillian’s List) is an activist organization modeled after the pro-abortion group EMILY’s List that identifies, recruits, and supports left-progressive and pro-abortion candidates running for office in North Carolina. 1
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    Catholic Charities USA

     Catholic Charities USA (CCU) is an umbrella group for local charities throughout the United States affiliated with the Catholic Church. It is the largest social safety net provider in the United States after the federal government.
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    Worth Rises

    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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    Wave Michigan

    Wave Michigan is a Democratic get-out-the-vote tool that helps organizations identify targeted voters and track contacts and voter activity. 1 It has been used by the Michigan Democratic Party, the Washtenaw County Democratic Party, the
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    Civic Sundays

    Civic Sundays is a left-of-center voter registration group that seeks to increase turnout of Democratic party voters. It partners with several pro-Democratic party nonprofit organizations to campaign for Democratic candidates. 1 Civic
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    Jewish Communal Fund

    The Jewish Communal Fund is a community foundation and administrator of donor-advised funds that promotes and facilitates charitable giving within the Jewish community in the greater New York City area. The organization was founded in 1972 and since has grown to serve donor-advised fund holders across the United States and
  • Person

    Pamela Smith

    Pamela Smith is a left-of-center election law activist known for her opposition to electronic voting. 1 She works as president and CEO of
  • Non-profit

    Justice for Migrant Women (J4MW)

    Justice for Migrant Women (J4MW) is a left-of-center organization that was originally designed to advocate for migrant women and other illegal immigrants in the United States. 1 The group is fiscally
  • Person

    Marielena Hincapie

    Marielena Hincapie is a left-of-center immigration activist and the longtime executive director of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC). She has advocated for lax immigration enforcement, criticizing even Obama administration immigration policy as too harsh, and has called former President Donald Trump a racist, a white supremacist,
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    Women’s Alliance for Democracy and Justice

    Women’s Alliance for Democracy and Justice is a left-of-center advocacy organization based in Montgomery County, Maryland. It was formed after the election of President Donald Trump in 2016. The organization may be defunct as of April 2022. A website that was given for the organization no longer works, and the
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    The Minneapolis Foundation

    The Minneapolis Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that views the critical race theory-influenced concept of equity as its “responsibility.” 1 In 2021, the foundation
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    #NoDAPL

    #NoDAPL (No Dakota Access Pipeline) is a Twitter hashtag and social media campaign that supported protests and encampments attempting to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argued that the 1,172-mile-long pipeline’s construction would threaten the tribe’s drinking water and sacred sites due
  • Person

    Jennifer Pritzker

    Jennifer Pritzker is a member of the Pritzker family of billionaires and Democratic politicians. Pritzker was born in 1950 as James Pritzker, a nephew of the founders of the Hyatt Hotel chain. In 2013, Pritzker changed his name from James to Jennifer,
  • Non-profit

    National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund

    The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund is a non-profit organization that focuses on funding initiatives that promote Latino political engagement. It also promotes left-of-center talking points on immigration, voting rights, the Census, and election administration. NALEO Educational Fund receives most of its revenue from
  • Person

    Kristen Lee

    Kristen Lee, a former Democratic Congressional staffer, is a policy analyst at the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). She has authored material on behalf of ACLU on matters related to election administration and District of Columbia statehood. Capitol Hill Career Starting on March 9, 2015, Kristen Lee worked
  • Person

    Sarah Saadian

    Sarah Michelson Saadian is the senior vice president of public policy at the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), 1 a lobby for the low-income housing industry that advocates for taxpayer-funded residential houses and complexes.
  • Person

    Dale Ho

    Dale Ho is a left-of-center attorney who specializes in voting rights cases. As of March 2022, he is a nominee for a U.S. district judgeship. As director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Voting Rights Project, Ho has argued against requiring proof of citizenship in order to register
  • Person

    Dana Paikowsky

    Dana Paikowsky is a left-of-center lawyer who focuses on voting issues. She is most notable for her work in trying to allow felons and the incarcerated the right to vote in elections. In 2021, she joined the U.S. Department of Justice in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights
  • Person

    Susan Disney Lord

    Susan Disney Lord is the daughter of Roy E. Disney, who was a longtime senior executive for the Walt Disney Company as well as the nephew of Walt Disney.