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Yolanda “Cookie” Parker is a left-wing political activist, the founder and president of KMS Software Company, a software firm specializing in human capital management. Parker serves as a senior advisor at the National Foster Youth Institute. She served on President Barack Obama’s National Finance Committees in 2008 and 2012.
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Yolande P. Marlow, Ph.D. is from Trenton, New Jersey. She is on the National Consortium on Racial and Ethic Fairness in the Courts Board Emeritus. She is a manager in New Jersey Supreme Court Committee Minority Concerns Unit.
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Yuen-Ying Chan is a writer and founder of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at Hong Kong University. She has additionally worked as a journalist for the New York Daily News and NBC News. She has worked as an advisor to The GroundTruth Project, a left-of-center news organization that runs Report for
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Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, is a singer, songwriter, and musician. He rose to prominence in the U.K. beginning in the late 1960s and converted to Islam in 1977. In 1979, he auctioned his guitars off for charity and pivoted to making Islamic music and raising money for
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Yvon Chouinard is the socialist billionaire founder and former owner of Patagonia, a sportswear apparel company known for its environmentalist activism, including donating 1 percent of annual revenue to philanthropic causes (totaling roughly $230 million through 2022).
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Yvonne Garrett is a Democratic political operative and CEO of O’Brien Garrett, a major Democratic-aligned consulting firm in Washington, D.C. Garrett is a former staffer for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign before becoming a consultant for center-left political groups.
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Zach Wamp is a retired former Republican Congressman who, from 1995 to 2011, represented Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. During his tenure, he served on the Committee on Appropriations and was a member of the right-leaning Liberty Caucus (also known as the Liberty Committee). In
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Zack Exley is a former senior adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and co-founder of the left-wing political committees Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress.
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Zeph Capo is a labor union official and president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers (Texas AFT) and the Houston Federation of Teachers, affiliates of the national American Federation of Teachers union. Capo was an outspoken opponent of the Texas government’s decision to reopen schools in the fall
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Zoe Baird is the president of the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation. She has held that position since 1998. Prior to that, Baird served in the administration of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton, and in various positions in corporate America. She
