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Michelle Childs is a judge on the United States District Court for South Carolina, a position to which President Barack Obama appointed her in 2010.
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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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Lisa Cook is a left-of-center economist. She is a professor of economics at Michigan State University and a professor of international relations at James Madison College. She also sits on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Cook has an extensive track record of working under
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Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan (EJAM) is a Detroit-based left-of-center economic and racial issue advocacy organization. EJAM has focused advocacy on economic issues such as raising minimum wage and race-related issues. The organization and its leaders have close ties to the Democratic Party and its supported issues. Lacy Dawson, the
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The James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy (Hunt Institute) is a left-of-center education advocacy organization based in Durham, North Carolina. 1
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National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is a left-of-center immigration activist organization that supports legal status for all illegal immigrants in the United States.
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Robert Soros is a philanthropist, investor, art collector, and the eldest son of billionaire financier George Soros. He is the founder and president of Soros Capital. Robert Soros is media-averse and quiet about political affairs compared to his father and most of his family, though he contributes extensively to
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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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Salim Muwakkil, born Alonzo Canady, is a radical-left political commentator and activist. A former Air Force service member, Muwakkil became radicalized by champion boxer, anti-Vietnam War campaigner, and black nationalist Muhammad Ali during his time in the military. He went on to join the Black Panther Party, a
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John Pang is a former member of the global board of the Open Society Foundations, the flagship organization within the international grantmaking and advocacy network of Hungarian billionaire financier and activist George Soros. Originally from Malaysia, Pang has advised the offices of the Malaysian minister of education and
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Leon Botstein is the president of Bard College, 1 the chairman of the George Soros-founded Central European University, and the chancellor of Open Society University Network (OSUN), a higher education
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Inroads is a nonprofit organization focused on combatting racial and economic inequality in the United States by training and placing minority college students in multiyear summer internships at corporations that provide experience, mentorship, and networking.
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The Congressional Integrity Project (CIP) is a left-of-center activist group that opposes Republican members of Congress and exposes allegedly compromising information about them with the intent of damaging their public images and re-election prospects. In particular, the project targets lawmakers who allegedly hold further-right beliefs or were not sufficiently critical
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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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Community Responsive Education (CRE) is a for-profit consulting firm that offers “diversity, equity, and inclusion-focused” teacher development programs to schools and other organizations. In addition to curriculum and teacher development, the firm offers critical race theory-inflected “equity audits” and “systems change strategic planning” for schools and school systems.
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Nate Silver is a statistician and polling expert best known as the founder of FiveThirtyEight. Silver has been credited with greatly increasing the popularity of political polling and poll analysis with the media, politicians, and the general public.
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FiveThirtyEight is an American website founded by statistician Nate Silver. Silver and other analysts make predictions on politics, sports, economics, and other affairs using algorithms and statistical models. As of November 2021, FiveThirtyEight has 41 staff members on its masthead.
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Rich Besser is the president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a left-of-center nonprofit organization involved in grantmaking and advocacy related to health policy. It is the largest health philanthropy organization in America. Prior to joining the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Besser was a top epidemiologist for
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Melissa L. Bradley is an investor, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist. She is the founder of 1863 Ventures, a business development fund that invests in whom it calls “black and brown entrepreneurs” so that the “New Majority” can “build wealth.”
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Kate Krontiris is a researcher, strategist and facilitator associated with left-of-center activism. 1 Krontiris has provided consulting services to several large organizations such as Google, Facebook, and the Democracy Fund, as well
