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Nandini Jammi is a co-founder of the advertising consultancy Check My Ads, which pressures brands and advertisers that advertise on center-right and right-of-center websites and media programs to terminate their sponsorship under the guise of “rooting out disinformation and hate speech from their digital media buys.”
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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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Governing for Impact (GFI) is a secretive left-of-center regulatory policy think tank created in 2019 to “prepare a new administration for transformative governance” by writing left-leaning regulatory recommendations for federal bureaucratic agencies.
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Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action is a left-of-center criminal justice initiative associated with the Defund the Police movement that was launched in the fall of 2018 by the “Social Justice Institute” of the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), a feminist and social justice academic project of Barnard College.
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Makani Themba is a left-of-center political and social activist based in Jackson, Mississippi who currently operates a left-of-center consultancy called Higher Ground Change Strategies. Themba previously was the founding executive director of The Praxis Project, a left-of-center nonprofit focused on public health issues. She has worked with and received
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DefundPolice.org is a central hub for coordinating and sharing resources among organizations dedicated to defunding the police. DefundPolice.org is run by the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability, a project of the New Venture Fund, which received at least $4 million from George Soros’s Foundation
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Regan Pritzker is a member of the wealthy and politically involved Pritzker family and a donor to left-leaning political causes and candidates. Pritzker is on the board of directors of the left-of-center nonprofits Libra Foundation and Kataly Foundation.
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Stewart Paperin is a career investor and left-of-center philanthropy manager. He is the managing director of LionRock Partners and the Leopard Rock Property Group, which invests in a variety of ventures, most notably real estate. Paperin previously spent years working for and overseeing organizations within the Open Society Network,
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Stephen Gutmann is a career philanthropy manager and left-progressive activist. As of 2020, he held the position of first vice president on the board of Human Development Services of Westchester, a New York-based nonprofit.
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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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Tanya Coke is a lawyer and left-of-center criminal justice activist who works as the director of the Gender, Racial and Ethnic Justice program at the Ford Foundation. 1 She previously worked at George
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Sanjay Reddy is an associate professor of economics at the New York City-based New School, a notably left-progressive institution of higher education. 1 Reddy has also worked at Barnard College,
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Ken Zimmerman is the director of the mental health strategic impact initiative at the Jed Foundation, adjunct assistant professor of urban planning at New York University (NYU), and a fellow at the NYU Furman Center, NYU’s research center for urban policy. Zimmerman was previously the director of U.S. programs at
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Karen Paget is a former Open Society Foundations fellow, author, and contributor to The American Prospect, a left-of-center publication that advocates for expanding the size of the federal government and increased welfare spending. 1 Open Society Foundations
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Rashida Bumbray is a choreographer and performance artist who is the head of culture and art programs at the Open Society Foundations, a large grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and left-leaning philanthropist George Soros. Bumbray joined the Open Society Foundations in 2015 and was promoted to
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Heather Grabbe is a European political scientist and left-of-center political activist. 1 As of 2022, she is director of the Open Society European Policy Institute (OSEPI), located in Brussels, Belgium. OSEPI is the
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Emma Oppenheim is a left of center economic policy advocate working as a senior fellow at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She is a former program officer for “economic justice” at the Open Society Foundations, and former director of advocacy and policy at the Roosevelt Institute.
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Center for Political Education (CPE) is a, “internationalist, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist” political activism training group 1 and a project of continuing-education organization the Kendra Alexander Foundation.
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Rosa Brooks, born Rosa Ehrenreich, is the daughter of longtime feminist activist Barbara Ehrenreich and is a law professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. 1 She is also an adjunct
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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
