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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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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Activist, Politician, Healthcare Policy
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of former U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) and a member of the Kennedy political family, is an environmental activist,…
View Jodie Evans

Jodie Evans

Activist, Board Member or Executive, Criminal Justice Policy, Drug Policy, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy, Healthcare Policy
Jodie Evans is the co-founder of the controversial far-left anti-war organization CODEPINK, a political activist, and an author. She has defended anti-U.S. insurgents during the…
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Hillary Clinton

Activist, Lawyer, Politician, Multi-Issue Advocacy
Hillary Clinton is a former First Lady of the United States, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State.
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Roger Waters

Activist, Other, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy
Roger Waters is a British musician and former front-man of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Waters is known for his support for left-wing activism,…
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Tom Steyer

Activist, Donor, Environmental Policy
Thomas Fahr “Tom” Steyer is an American hedge-fund billionaire turned climate-change activist, and major political donor to environmental causes and Democrats advocating an environmentalist agenda…
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Calla Walsh

Activist, Foreign Policy
Calla Walsh is a radical-left activist based in Boston. Walsh is a member of numerous activist groups, including Massachusetts Peace Action, the Democratic Socialists of…
View Omar Barghouti

Omar Barghouti

Activist, Foreign Policy
Omar Barghouti is the founder of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, an international network of pro-Palestinian groups that opposes the State of Israel….
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Bernie Sanders

Activist, Politician, Abortion Policy, Economic Policy, Elections Policy, Firearms Policy, Healthcare Policy, Labor Policy
Bernard "Bernie" Sanders is a Vermont politician, serving as the state's senior United States Senator. Sanders ran for the Democratic Party nomination for President of…
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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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Megan Hull

Activist, Donor, Multi-Issue Advocacy
Megan Hull is a left-of-center activist and political donor who regularly contributes to Democratic candidates and left-of-center advocacy causes. Her father is Blair Hull, a billionaire…
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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…
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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…
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Brian Krassenstein

Activist, Multi-Issue Advocacy
Brian Krassenstein is an American left-of-center political-commentary entrepreneur associated with the “#Resistance” movement, a critic of former President Donald Trump, and the brother of Edward…
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Liz Shuler

Activist, Labor Policy
Elizabeth H. Shuler is an American labor union official who assumed the presidency of the AFL-CIO after the death of Richard Trumka. She is a…
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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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Alex Friedmann

Activist, Journalist, Criminal Justice Policy
Alex Friedmann is a left-of-center prison advocate who worked for the 2016 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). He is a former staff…
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Medea Benjamin

Activist, Economic Policy, Foreign Policy
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Page Gardner

Activist, Board Member or Executive, Multi-Issue Advocacy
Page Gardner is a left-of-center activist who founded the Voter Participation Center, formerly the Women’s Voices, Women Vote organization. Through her work, Gardner aims to…
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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…

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