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Avery Gardiner serves as co-president of the gun control organization Brady Campaign and its affiliate, the Brady Center, alongside Kris Brown. Gardiner was previously chief legal officer for the Brady organizations and lawyer for the Brady organizations’ Legal Action Project.
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Avral Thompson is a labor union official with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He is vice president of Teamsters Local 89 in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, writer, and left-of-center policy advocate. She is the co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank that advocates for climate policies to protect the future of coastal cities. She co-edited the climate anthology All We Can Save, co-founded the All We Can Save
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Baldemar Velásquez is an American labor union activist. He co-founded and is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO.
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Barack Obama (born Barack Hussein Obama II in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. The first African American to assume the presidency, he was previously the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008.
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Barbara A. Stiefel is the heiress of the Stiefel Medicinal Soap Co. fortune, a major donor to left-of-center politicians and organizations,1 and
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Barbara Arnwine is a lawyer and advocate for left-of-center causes through litigation and work on the board of several left-leaning organizations. Her main areas of interest are the criminal justice system, race-related litigation, healthcare, and LGBT issues.
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Barbara Bowen is the vice president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of the largest and most controversial labor unions in the United States. Bowen is also president of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), a left-of-center labor union which represents professors of the City University of New
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Barbara Dalio is an American philanthropist and the wife of Ray Dalio, the founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. Together they run Dalio Philanthropies, a grantmaking foundation that primarily funds universities and research projects. She is the founder and co-director of Dalio Education, which provides funding for public-school projects
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Barbara Fried is a Stanford Law School professor and a co-founder of Mind the Gap, a pro-Democratic super PAC. She is the mother of cryptocurrency investor Sam Bankman-Fried. 1 Career
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Barbara Hostetter is a Boston, Massachusetts-based philanthropist. She is the wife of billionaire cable television entrepreneur Amos Hostetter. She is the co-founder of the Barr Foundation, which gives to various projects around the Boston area related to the arts and combating climate change.
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Barbara Sargent is a left-of-center philanthropist living in California. Along with her husband, Tom Sargent, Sargent has formed multiple left-of-center foundations. Most notably, Sargent formed the Kalliopeia Foundation, a left-of-center grantmaking organization that funds environmentalist policies, left-of-center Native American interests, and expanded immigration policies. Sargent has poured over $67,625,194
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Barbara Simons is a computer scientist who serves on the board of Verified Voting, a nonprofit that advocates against electronic voting. Simons is an outspoken supporter of paper ballots, serving on the Board of Advisors to the United States Election Assistance Commission. In addition to her work on election administration,
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Barbara Stiefel is an heiress of Stiefel Medicinal Soap Company, left-progressive advocacy philanthropist, and Democratic political donor.
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Barbra Streisand is a singer, screen and stage actor, movie director, and philanthropist.1 She has been active in support of left-of-center politics and the Democratic Party throughout her career, and she created the Barbra Streisand
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Barre Seid is a Chicago industrialist and former owner of Tripp Lite, which makes surge protectors. In 2021, Tripp Lite was acquired by Eaton for $1.65 billion in a transaction that involved transferring control of Tripp Lite to the Marble Freedom Trust, a social welfare organization which then sold the
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Barry Fadem is a center-left election lawyer, co-founder of the advocacy group National Popular Vote, and a board member for the anti-Electoral College think tank Institute for Research on Presidential Elections.
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Barry Steinhardt is a left-progressive civil liberties and privacy activist who has held a number of positions with the ACLU and its state-level affiliates.
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Becky Bond is an American socialist author and activist who was the former political director of CREDO Mobile. In March, 2019, the Washington Examiner reported that Bond had joined Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign for President as an adviser.
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Rebecca Pringle is a teacher and teachers’ union officer working as the president of the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest labor union. Pringle has been an outspoken opponent of reopening schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic, even to the point of supporting teacher strikes against school districts. Pringle worked
