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Florence Elizabeth “Beth” Lynk is a left-leaning political activist, advocate, strategist, and communications specialist. She supports left-progressive policies including abortion,1 government-funded health care,
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Bhairavi Desai is a New York City-based union organizer best known as the founder and president of both the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and the National Taxi Workers Alliance, both of which are unions of largely independent contractor taxi drivers, rideshare app drivers, chauffeurs, and other private drivers.
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Bianca Yarborough is a left-wing activist with Organizing For Action.
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William “Bill” Ackman is a Democratic political donor, investor, and hedge fund manager. Ackman has shorted stocks betting they would fall in value while pushing negative media stories about those companies. Ackman is also an “activist” investor who has pushed for policy and leadership changes at companies in which he
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For more see: Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society, and Bernardine Dohrn Bill Ayers was an original co-founder and one of the top leaders of the Weather Underground, a radical-left violent extremist group that was active from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. Prior to
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Bill Byrnes is on the board of trustees of WashREIT.
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Bill Clinton is a Democratic politician who served as President of the United States from January 20, 1993 until January 20, 2001. He is the husband of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the father of Chelsea Clinton. In December 1998 he was impeached by
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Bill de Blasio is a New York City Democratic politician who has served as mayor of New York City since 2014 after serving lesser roles in the city government for twelve years. He ran for the Democratic nomination for President in 2020 but suspended his campaign after four months. De
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Bill Gallegos is an environmental consultant and activist organizer involved in organized labor, climate change activism, and various left-of-center social causes. Since 2014, Gallegos has been operating Gallegos and Associates, a private consulting firm offering strategic planning and leadership training to nonprofits and foundations in the climate and social justice
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Bill Gates is the founder and former CEO of technology giant Microsoft. He also founded the philanthropic Bill Gates Foundation, known since Gates’s marriage to Melinda Gates (nee French) as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Since founding Microsoft in the 1970s, Gates has become one of the world’s
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Bill Lipton is a left-of-center political organizer and activist who co-founded and was the New York state director for the Working Families Party (WFP) until 2020. WFP is a New York-based political party that utilizes New York’s electoral fusion voting system which allows multiple parties to nominate candidates and
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Bill McKibben is an influential environmentalist author and activist. A former journalist who wrote a seminal book in the anthropogenic global warming movement, McKibben founded the environmentalist organization 350.org and has been involved in the People’s Climate Marches movement. McKibben’s first book, The End of Nature, has been
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Bill Moyers is a left-wing journalist best known for his various documentaries and specials on PBS. He also served as White House Press Secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson. He also served as president of the Schumann Media Center, which funds left-wing projects. He also formerly served as a
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Bill Ritter (born August William Ritter Jr.) is a Democratic politician who served as the 41st Governor of Colorado from 2007-2011. Since stepping down from the governorship, he has worked as director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University.
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William (Bill) J. Roberts is a left-of-center political activist, environmentalist, and philanthropist who works as the principal consultant of Corridor Partners consultancy firm. He is also a board member of League of Conservation Voters (LCV), a left-of-center environmentalist political advocacy group, and has held leadership positions at both
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William H. or Bill Scripps is a businessman and philanthropist from the San Diego, California, area. He is an heir to the E.W. Scripps family fortune. Scripps and his wife Kathy are major supporters of universities and other civic causes. Their giving vehicle is the William and Kathryn Scripps Family
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Bill Smith is a political consultant and founding principal of Civitas Public Affairs Group, a political consultancy that caters to Democratic Party candidates and center-left clients. Smith is the former national political director of Gill Action Fund, a now-defunct gay and lesbian advocacy group.
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Bill Vandenberg is a program director for the Open Society Foundations (OSF), a left-of-center private grantmaking organization that forms the core of George Soros’s Soros Network of advocacy philanthropy institutions. He helps oversee OSF’s grantmaking among state-level organizations.
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Billy Pitts is a board member of American Action Forum and the president of Capitol BrainTrust.
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Billy Wimsatt is an author and political activist. Wimsatt has founded or co-founded a number of left-of-center advocacy organizations, including the League of Young Voters, Generational Alliance, and Rebuild the Dream.
