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Vernetta Walker is a nonprofit attorney who has worked or consulted for a number of left-progressive organizations.
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Vijay Prashad is a Marxist journalist and historian. An ardent supporter of communism, Prashad is the author of many books defending the ideology’s legacy and is a frequent contributor to a number of left-wing news sites and publications.
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Vincent Ryan is the founder of Schooner Capital, and runs the Schooner Foundation, which gives to a variety of progressive causes. 1
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Virginia Kase (also known as Virginia Kase Soloman) is the CEO of the League of Women Voters (LWV), a left-of-center policy and voting rights advocacy group. She was previously the COO of CASA, a left-of-center immigrant advocacy group. Early Life Virginia Kase grew up in Hartford, Connecticut. She
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Vivek Ramaswamy is the co-founder and executive chairman of Strive Asset Management. He is the founder and former CEO of Roivant Sciences. 1 He is the author the 2021 book Woke Inc. about
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Vivian Schiller is the CEO of media group Civil Foundation as well as the former CEO of center-left media group NPR and the Global Chair of News for Twitter. She sits on the board of The GroundTruth Project, a left-of-center news organization that runs Report for America.
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Wade Henderson is the Interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a 501(c)(4) organization which advocates for legislation to protect civil and human rights.
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Wade Rathke is a professional political organizer, labor union activist, and co-founder of the now-defunct Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a controversial, left-of-center community organizing group. Rathke also worked as ACORN’s chief organizer from 1970 to its closure in 2008. Aside from his work with ACORN,
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Walker Hamilton was the former chief technology officer for the Democratic campaign consulting firm Revolution Messaging. Currently, he is the chief technology officer for the online business process software company Tallyfy, Inc.
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Wallis Annenberg is the president of the Annenberg Foundation, a multibillion-dollar private foundation which funds various left-of-center political groups and causes in the Greater Los Angeles area and throughout the nation. According to the Annenberg Foundation’s 2018 tax return, the foundation has over $1.4 billion in assets, putting it
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Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo is the former president of the Obama Foundation and a senior advisor at both BlackRock and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He served in numerous positions in the Obama administration, including Senior International Economic Adviser to the Treasury Department. During
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Walter E. Hussman, Jr. is the publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and was chairman of WEHCO Media, a privately owned communications company that owns 10 daily newspapers, including the Democrat-Gazette and the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times-Free Press, seven weekly newspapers, and seven cable TV systems, from 1981 until 2016.
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Walter J. Haas, also known as Wally Haas, is an American businessman and a son of Walter A. Haas Jr. and Evelyn D. Haas, founders of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund (also known as the Haas Jr. Fund), a private foundation that provides grants primarily to left-of-center
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Warren Buffett is the chief executive of investment corporation Berkshire Hathaway and is credited as one of the most successful investors of all time.1 According to Forbes, Buffett was the second-richest person in the
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Wayne Harris is the executive board chairman of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership, an advocacy group opposing drug prohibition and supporting left-of-center criminal justice policy. 1 Harris is a retired deputy chief
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Wayne Jordan is the founder and president of Jordan Real Estate Investments and a major donor to Democratic political and left-of-center advocacy causes. Along with his wife, Quinn Delaney, Jordan is the co-founder and secretary-treasurer of the Akonadi Foundation, a left-of-center racial-advocacy grantmaking group primarily focused in Oakland.
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Wayne Spence is the president of the Public Employees Federation. 1
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Wendy Abrams is an American environmentalist activist.
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Wendy Grubbs is a board member of American Action Forum. She was formerly a special assistant to President George W. Bush.
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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