Mindy Finn is a Republican Party political strategist and failed 2016 vice presidential candidate alongside presidential candidate Evan McMullin. McMullin and Finn are co-founders of Stand Up Republic, a nominally right-leaning organization critical of the Trump administration partially funded by the center-left group Democracy Fund. [1] Until October 2016, Finn was a member of the Democracy Fund’s National Advisory Committee. [2]
Association with Left-Wing Groups
Finn and McMullin are advisers to the Protect Democracy Project and United to Protect Democracy, two left-of-center litigation groups created to oppose the policies of the Trump administration. [3]
From January 2016 to January 2018, Finn was a member of the national advisory committee for Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund, the 501(c)(3) arm of the 501(c)(4) lobbying group Democracy Fund Voice, a supporter of Stand Up Republic. [4]
Both Finn and Evan McMullin are advisory board members for the nominally libertarian Niskanen Center, which advocates for left-wing policies. [5]
Finn is a member of the executive committee for the Civil Society Fellowship program launched in April 2019 by the center-left Anti-Defamation League and Aspen Institute. [6]
Citizen Data
In 2019, Mindy Finn founded data-based company Citizen Data [7] to provide, “Data for a stronger democracy. Helping to unite Americans across difference to drive meaningful change.” [8]