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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Brian Becker

Board Member or Executive, Foreign Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
Brian Becker is the national director of the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, a radical-left, anti-war, antiracist group that organizes…
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Larry Fink

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Environmental Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
See Also: BlackRock, Inc. (For-Profit)
View Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Activist, Politician, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Multi-Issue Advocacy
Barack Obama is a Democratic politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, as U.S. Senator from Illinois, and as an Illinois…
View Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza

Activist, Abortion Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
Alicia Garza is a California-based activist and a co-founder of the #BlackLivesMatter online movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
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Hasan Piker

Other, Economic Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
Hasan Piker is a 34-year-old radical-left political streamer and content creator. As of September, 2025, his twitch channel, a streaming platform popular among young audiences…
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Carlos P. Odio

Activist, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Labor Policy
Carlos P. Odio is a left-of-center political operative working as of 2021 as head of EquisLabs. Odio worked on the 2008 Obama presidential campaign as…
View John Chevedden

John Chevedden

Activist, Other, Environmental Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
John Chevedden is a private investor and shareholder activist known for his prolific filing of corporate shareholder proposals under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule…
View Francis Najafi

Francis Najafi

Activist, Board Member or Executive, Economic Policy, Foreign Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
Francis Najafi is a billionaire Iranian immigrant who owns an asset management firm as well as part of the Phoenix Suns basketball team. He is…
View Susan Pritzker

Susan Pritzker

Activist, Environmental Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), LGBT Policy
Susan Pritzker is a philanthropist, feminist, and political activist focused on left-of-center issues and redistribution of wealth. She married Nicholas Pritzker, a member of the…
View Susan Rosenberg

Susan Rosenberg

Activist, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Multi-Issue Advocacy
See also: the Weather Underground and Thousand Currents. Susan Rosenberg is a former convicted domestic terrorist who participated in a bombing campaign against federal targets…
View Kathleen McGrath

Kathleen McGrath

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Abortion Policy, Criminal Justice Policy, Elections Policy, Firearms Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
Kathleen “Katie” McGrath is the spouse of Hollywood producer J.J. Abrams and director of the Kathleen McGrath and J.J. Abrams Family Foundation, the couple’s left-of-center…
View Quinn Delaney

Quinn Delaney

Donor, Abortion Policy, Criminal Justice Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
Quinn Delaney is a philanthropist, fundraiser, and major donor to left-of-center causes and Democratic politicians. In 2000, Delaney and her husband, real estate mogul Wayne…
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Saul Alinsky

Activist, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Labor Policy, Multi-Issue Advocacy
Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was a leading political activist and theorist, social critic, self-described “radical,” and an architect of the modern Left’s structure and approach to…
View Rachel Gelman

Rachel Gelman

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Economic Policy, Foreign Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
Rachel Gelman is a member of the billionaire Strauss family, the heirs to the Levi Strauss & Co. clothing fortune.
View George Krupp

George Krupp

Donor, Abortion Policy, Environmental Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), LGBT Policy
George Krupp is a businessman and major Democratic donor who made his fortune through The Berkshire Group, a real estate investment company. Krupp and his…
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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Shalomyah Bowers

Board Member or Executive, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
Shalomyah Bowers, also known as Christman Bowers, is the founder and head of Bowers Consulting Firm, a for-profit consulting group for left-progressive organizations and campaigns….
View Larry Cohen

Larry Cohen

Activist, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Labor Policy
Larry Cohen is a former trade union official who headed the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and a Democratic political operative who chairs Our Revolution,…
View Patrisse Cullors

Patrisse Cullors

Activist, Board Member or Executive, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
Patrisse Cullors is a California-based political activist and a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter online movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.

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