People Profiles

Learn how specific individuals are influencing public policy. Each profile below is carefully curated by an InfluenceWatch contributor, and includes funding data where appropriate.

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View Becky Pringle

Becky Pringle

Other, Education Policy, Labor Policy
Rebecca Pringle is a teacher and teachers’ union officer working as the president of the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest labor union. Pringle has…
View Duan Yongping

Duan Yongping

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Education Policy, Elections Policy
Duan Yongping (sometimes Anglicized as Yongping Duan) is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman and investor known for his founding of several smartphone brands in the Chinese…
View Lily Eskelsen Garcia

Lily Eskelsen Garcia

Activist, Education Policy, Firearms Policy, Labor Policy
Lily Eskelsen Garcia is a teachers union activist and the former president of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United…
View Janine Yass

Janine Yass

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Education Policy
Janine Yass is an education philanthropist and the wife of Jeffrey Yass, the right-of-center billionaire founder of Susquehanna Capital.
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Jeff Bezos

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Economic Policy, Education Policy, Environmental Policy
Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon and was estimated by Forbes to be the richest person in the world as of March,…
View James Simons

James Simons

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Abortion Policy, Education Policy, Healthcare Policy
James Simons is a billionaire retired manager of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies and mathematician. Forbes lists Simons the second-highest-earning hedge fund manager in 2018….
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Susan A. Buffett

Board Member or Executive, Abortion Policy, Criminal Justice Policy, Economic Policy, Education Policy, Healthcare Policy
Susan A. Buffett, known as "Susie," is the eldest daughter of billionaire investor Warren Buffett and a major force in left-of-center philanthropy. As chair of…
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Jeffrey Yass

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Education Policy
Jeffrey ‘Jeff’ Yass is an American investor, co-founder of the Susquehanna International Group, and vice chairman of the think tank Cato Institute. As of April…
View Daniel Kebede

Daniel Kebede

Board Member or Executive, Education Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Labor Policy
Daniel Kebede is the general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), a national teachers union in the United Kingdom. Kebede had previously served as…
View Michael Moritz

Michael Moritz

Board Member or Executive, Other, Abortion Policy, Education Policy, Elections Policy, Environmental Policy, Housing Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Immigration Policy
Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born American billionaire investor best known for his work with Sequoia Capital. As of March 2024, Moritz had an estimated net…
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Sheldon Adelson

Donor, Education Policy, Foreign Policy
Sheldon Adelson was the chairman and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands casino-management firm. Adelson had previously donated to political campaigns for members of the…
View Liesel Pritzker Simmons

Liesel Pritzker Simmons

Donor, Economic Policy, Education Policy
Liesel Pritzker Simmons is a member of the wealthy and politically involved Pritzker family and an impact investor and donor to left-leaning political causes. Pritzker…
View John Doerr

John Doerr

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Education Policy, Environmental Policy
John Doerr is an American venture capitalist and philanthropist best known for investing in top tech firms like Amazon, Google, and Twitter through the venture…
View Marc Rowan

Marc Rowan

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Education Policy, Immigration Policy
Marc Rowan is co-founder and CEO of Apollo Global Management Inc. and has an estimated net worth of roughly $8 billion as of early February…
View Stephen Mandel Jr.

Stephen Mandel Jr.

Donor, Economic Policy, Education Policy, Environmental Policy
Stephen (Steve) Mandel Jr. is an American hedge fund manager who founded Lone Pine Capital in 1997, which mostly invests in technology companies. A Connecticut…
View Amy Kurtz

Amy Kurtz

Board Member or Executive, Education Policy, Multi-Issue Advocacy
Amy Kurtz is the president of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a “dark money” fund responsible for funneling over $400 million to Democratic and left-of-center causes…
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Jensen Huang

Board Member or Executive, Education Policy, Healthcare Policy, Tech Policy
Jen-Hsun (Jensen) Huang is a Taiwanese American businessman and technology entrepreneur best known as the founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, a computer chip…
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John Stocks

Activist, Politician, Education Policy
John C. Stocks is the chairman of the board of Democracy Alliance (DA), a collective of wealthy left-of-center donors and donor organizations. Stocks was previously…
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Nick Hanauer

Activist, Donor, Economic Policy, Education Policy, Firearms Policy
Nicholas “Nick” Hanauer is a donor, venture capital investor, and political commentator. Hanauer is an activist for extreme increases in the minimum wage, a fervent…
View Harriet Heyman

Harriet Heyman

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Abortion Policy, Education Policy, Environmental Policy, Firearms Policy, Healthcare Policy, Housing Policy, Immigration Policy
Harriet Heyman is a writer, author, sculptor, and philanthropist as well as the wife of venture capitalist and former head of Sequoia Capital Michael Moritz….

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