People (Page 110)


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    Wendy Schmidt

    Wendy Schmidt is an American philanthropist and the wife of Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and chairman of Google holding company Alphabet. Wendy and her husband are involved in a number of philanthropic endeavors that not only fund left-of-center environmentalism and human rights initiatives but
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    Wendy Weiser

    Wendy Weiser is a left-leaning attorney and elections activist who currently works as the director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a left-leaning think tank and legal activist organization housed at the New York University Law School. Weiser’s work at the Brennan Center focuses around
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    Wendy Wendlandt

    Wendy Wendlandt is president of the Center for Public Interest Research and senior vice president of the Public Interest Network.
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    Wenonah Hauter

    Wenonah Hauter is the founder and the executive director of Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action. 1
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    Weston Milliken

    Weston Milliken is a former management consultant and board secretary for the Democracy Alliance, a collective of left-of-center donors that has been active in orchestrating “the activities of a permanent ‘left infrastructure’” since 2004.
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    Whitney May

    Whitney May is a co-founder and director of government services at the left-of-center Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), a Chicago-based election advocacy organization which pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration.
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    Whitney Quesenbery

     Whitney Quesenbery is the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Civic Design and a user experience (UX) professional. She has advocated for reforming American voting systems to improve UX design and improve accessibility, particularly for less-educated voters. Career After earning a bachelor’s degree in English literature from a
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    Whitney Tymas

    Whitney Tymas is a left-leaning lawyer and political activist who advocates for radical criminal justice reforms. 1
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    Wilbur Priester

    Wilbur Priester is chief financial officer for the left-leaning philanthropy consulting firm Arabella Advisors. He also serves in this capacity on the boards of Arabella Advisors’ funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofits, including New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, and Windward Fund.
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    Will Lippincott

    Will Lippincott is a board member of the Democratic opposition research group American Bridge 21st Century Foundation.
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    Will Menaker

    Will Menaker is one of three co-founders and regular co-hosts of Chapo Trap House (Chapo), a for-profit socialist podcast. As of March 2019, Chapo was grossing more than $120,000 per month through the website Patreon.
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    Will Wilkinson

    Will Wilkinson is a center-left writer and former vice president for research at the formerly nominally libertarian Niskanen Center. Wilkinson is the former U.S. politics correspondent for The Economist magazine, a research fellow for the center-right Cato Institute, and a former program director for the center-right Mercatus Center.
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    William Ayres

    William Ayres is the co-founder of poverty and hunger advocacy nonprofit WhyHunger. He also serves on the board of advisors for Long Island-focused food bank Long Island Cares. 1
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    William Budinger

    William Budinger is a businessman, inventor, and center-left political activist. He sits on the board of Third Way, the Breakthrough Institute, and the Aspen Institute, and is a donor to the Lincoln Project, the Democratic National Committee, and the 2020 Presidential campaign of Joe
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    William Burns

    William Burns is a former diplomate serving in the Biden administration as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since March 2021. He was previously the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His prior experience includes more than 30 years in the U.S. Foreign Service including
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    William Frisky

    William Frisky is the international vice president of International Brotherhood of Teamsters and is the secretary-treasurer and principal officer of the Local 964 union in Ohio. 1
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    William Hamilton

    William Hamilton is the current Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ (IBT) Eastern Region. He also serves as director of the Director of Teamsters Express Division as well as a Trustee and Co-Chairman of the Health Welfare and Pension Fund of Philadelphia.
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    William J. Barber II

    William J. Barber II is the pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Greensboro, NC and a noted left-of-center political activist. 1 Barber is founder and president of Repairers of
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    William J. Roberts

    William J. Roberts is a Democratic and liberal political operative working as of early 2021 as managing director for democracy and government reform at the Democratic establishment-aligned think tank Center for American Progress.
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    William Janeway

    William Hall Janeway is a left-of-center economist and policy advocate. He is the co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), a think tank founded in 2010 with the financial backing of billionaire financier and left-of-center philanthropist George Soros that pushes for increased government involvement in the