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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 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
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Rebecca “Becky” Wasserman is the director of government relations at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)1 and a self-described “organizer for racial and economic justice.”
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Ben Cohen is one of the founders of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream and a donor to left-of-center political causes. He is also the founder of cannabis company Ben’s Best Blnz, or B3.
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Ben de Guzman is a left-wing activist that works to promote Asian American-Pacific Islander and LGBT interests. Guzman currently serves as the director of Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs. Guzman previously served as the Community Outreach Specialist in the Mayor’s
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Ben Goldhirsh is a left-progressive social activist and entrepreneur best known for creating the liberal news-commentary website Upworthy. He is the former CEO of Good Ventures and chairs his personal foundation, the Goldhirsh Foundation.
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Ben Jealous is a political activist, president of the left-of-center advocacy group People for the American Way (PFAW) and People for the American Way Foundation, and the former president and CEO of the NAACP.
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Ben Manski is a far-left nonprofit organizer, activist, and campaigner for the Green Party. Manski is also an assistant professor of sociology at George Mason University in Northern Virginia. 1 In an interview about the
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Ben Palmquist is the campaign manager of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI). He is also on the advisory committee of Our Story Hub, a project of the Proteus Fund which advises left-of-center politicians and groups on communications strategies.
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Ben Rhodes is a left-of-center political commentator, author, and podcast host who worked for the Obama 2008 presidential campaign and as the Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting in the Obama administration for the entire duration of Barack Obama’s presidency. Rhodes was involved with
