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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 Lyna Lam

Lyna Lam

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Immigration Policy
Lyna Lam is a philanthropist based in San Francisco, California. She is the child of refugees from the Cambodian genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge…
View Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman

Activist, Immigration Policy, Multi-Issue Advocacy
Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist best known for founding LinkedIn. Hoffman was relatively apolitical prior until 2016, when he…
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Drummond Pike

Activist, Board Member or Executive, Environmental Policy, Immigration Policy, Labor Policy
Drummond McGavin Pike is an American businessman, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist. He is notable for founding a number of organizations that promote and fund…
View Marc Benioff

Marc Benioff

Donor, Economic Policy, Firearms Policy, Immigration Policy
Marc Benioff is founder, chairman, and co-CEO of Salesforce.com, a leading software company. Benioff engages in a substantial amount of advocacy-philanthropic giving, and he has…
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…
View Xavier Becerra

Xavier Becerra

Lawyer, Politician, Abortion Policy, Healthcare Policy, Immigration Policy
Xavier Becerra is a Democratic politician, former Congressman, and former attorney general of California, who previously served as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human…
View Daniel Altschuler

Daniel Altschuler

Activist, Environmental Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Immigration Policy
Daniel Altschuler is the managing director of the left-of-center advocacy group Make the Road Action and the civic engagement and research coordinator at the affiliated…
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…
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Cari Tuna

Donor, Economic Policy, Environmental Policy, Housing Policy, Immigration Policy, Labor Policy
Cari Tuna is a left-of-center political donor and philanthropist. Tuna married Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz in 2013, and the couple have since co-founded four philanthropic…
View Amed Khan

Amed Khan

Activist, Immigration Policy
Amed Khan is a Democratic Party-aligned political operative. He is the president of Elpida Home, an organization that provides legal and asylum services for Middle…
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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Sue Van

Board Member or Executive, Criminal Justice Policy, Economic Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Immigration Policy
Sue Van is a businesswoman and philanthropist best known for her role as the president and CEO of the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, a grantmaking…
View Jonathan Greenblatt

Jonathan Greenblatt

Activist, Other, Economic Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Immigration Policy
Jonathan Greenblatt is a Democratic political operative, corporate executive, and the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. He worked for Bill Clinton’s 1992 Presidential campaign and…
View Margaret Huang

Margaret Huang

Activist, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Immigration Policy, Multi-Issue Advocacy
Margaret Huang is a longtime left-progressive activist who is currently the president and CEO of the controversial Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Southern…
View Suzanne Gollin

Suzanne Gollin

Activist, Donor, Immigration Policy, Multi-Issue Advocacy
Suzanne Gollin is a writer, activist, and philanthropist who supports left-of-center causes and campaigns. She is the daughter of Las Vegas businessman and alleged former…
View Howard Horowitz

Howard Horowitz

Activist, Board Member or Executive, Economic Policy, Foreign Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Immigration Policy
Howard Horowitz is a socialist Jewish activist, far-left racial and economic justice activist, and the current president of the Westchester People’s Action Committee (WESPAC) Foundation…
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Rahm Emanuel

Politician, Criminal Justice Policy, Firearms Policy, Immigration Policy
Rahm Emanuel is an American politician who served as the 55th mayor of Chicago from 2011 through 2019. Emanuel has served in several senior positions…
View Maya Harris

Maya Harris

Other, Criminal Justice Policy, Energy Policy, Healthcare Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Immigration Policy
Maya Harris is a professional left-of-center policy advocate and advisor. She has served in a leadership role for numerous left-wing organizations. Among those organizations are…
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Deepak Bhargava

Activist, Elections Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Immigration Policy
Deepak Bhargava is a career left-of-center activist and community organizer who worked for 16 years as executive director and president of the Center for Community…
View Albert J. Dwoskin

Albert J. Dwoskin

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Economic Policy, Healthcare Policy, Immigration Policy
Albert J. Dwoskin is a real estate developer, activist, and major left-of-center donor to the Democratic Party and left-wing causes who resides in Virginia. In…

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