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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 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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Bill Roberts is a progressive political activist, environmentalist, and philanthropist who has held non-profit leadership positions at both Atlantic Philanthropies and the Beldon Fund.
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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.
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Bishop M. Garrison, Jr. is the senior advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) on human capital, diversity, equity, and inclusion. 1
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Blaine Rummel is the director of communications at AFSCME. 1 He has previously worked at In the Public Interest, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Fenton, and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. He
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Blair Bowie is a lawyer and career left-of-center activist. She works for the Campaign Legal Center, which promotes campaign finance laws and electoral district boundary-drawing that favors left-of-center politicians. Previously, Bowie worked at Free Speech for People, another campaign finance advocacy group, as well as the environmentalist organization
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Blair Hull is an American businessman, investor, Democratic politician, and philanthropist. Hull founded Hull Trading Company in 1985 and served as the firm’s Chairman and chief executive officer before selling it to Goldman Sachs in 1999 for $531 million.
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Blyth van Dam is the founder, chair, and chief executive officer (CEO) of technology firm Audtra Benefit Corp, or simply “Audtra.” Audtra, previously titled Dream Entries Blocker Corp., was officially incorporated in 2016 and is based in Delaware.
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Robert “Bob” Avakian is the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP) which he formed in 1975. Since the 1960s, Avakian has been involved with Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union, and the RCP. Avakian’s politics have aligned more with People’s
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Mari Lynn “Bob” Bland is a fashion designer and left-wing activist best known as a co-chair of the 2017 Women’s March and a former board member of Women’s March, Inc. Her activism has drawn controversy by her attacks on white women who continue to support Republicans. In addition to
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Bob Callahan is the chief of staff of Change to Win, a federation of labor unions. 1