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.” ⁷

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