People (Page 15)


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    Bren Simon

    Bren Simon is the widow of Simon Property Group co-founder Melvin Simon.
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    Brendan DeMille

    Brendan DeMille is an environmentalist journalist and executive director of DeSmogBlog.
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    Brian Acton

    Brian Acton is an American software engineer best known as the co-founder of internet messaging service WhatsApp. Along with his wife, Tegan, Acton is a major giver to left-aligned charitable causes through his foundation, Sunlight Giving, and two donor-advised funds (DAFs) maintained with Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund,
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    Brian Deese

    Brian Christopher Deese was a senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama. Earlier in the Obama Administration, Deese served as the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget and was the acting director of the office in the summer of 2014.
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    Brian Fallon

    Brian Fallon is the founder and executive director of the left-wing judicial advocacy group Demand Justice. Fallon’s career includes service in the Obama administration as well as campaign work for 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, former Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts), and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
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    Brian Kettenring

    Brian Kettenring is one of four Co-Executive Directors of the Center for Popular Democracy and its affiliated Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund.
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    Brian Krassenstein

    Brian Krassenstein is a left-leaning investigative reporter and founder of HillReporter (HillReporter.com), an outlet known for its criticism of the Trump administration.
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    Brian Stults

    Brian Stults is former senior vice president of operations at Polimetrix, Inc.
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    Brian Weeks

    Brian Weeks is a left-of-center political operative and labor union activist who currently serves as political director for the American Federation State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a major government worker union known for advancing left-leaning polices and liberal grassroots advocacy. Most of Weeks’ work at AFSCME consists of
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    Brian Williams

    Brian Williams is an American journalist. He has worked as an anchor and managing editor for NBC Nightly News and as chief anchor for MSNBC.
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    Brittany Packnett

    Brittany Packnett is a left-wing political activist and vice president of Teach for America. She previously served in the Barack Obama administration.
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    Bruce Aylward

    Bruce Aylward is a Canadian epidemiologist and World Health Organization official.
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    Bruce Boyd

    Bruce Boyd is the senior managing director of Arabella Advisors, and he oversees the company’s strategic planning, program implementation, and social impact evaluations. Boyd’s investment portfolio largely focuses on environmentalist issues including climate change and water and land conservation.
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    Bruce Raynor

    Bruce Raynor is a labor organizer and union official who worked as the former head of UNITE, Unite Here, and Workers United. He is best known for his involvement in the merger of UNITE and HERE into Unite Here and its later dissolution. Raynor spent over twenty
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    Bruce Smith

    Bruce Smith is a labor union official who worked as president of the Glass, Molders, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union before its incorporation into the United Steelworkers.
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    Bryan Stevenson

    Bryan Stevenson is a criminal justice lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a left-of-center nonprofit that provides legal defense to death-row inmates in Alabama. Stevenson is a member of the Open Society Foundations U.S. Programs board.
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    Caitlin Heising

    Caitlin Heising is the daughter of Liz Simons and Mark Heising, left-progressive advocacy philanthropists and the founders of the Heising-Simons Foundation. As a vice chair of the foundation, she develops philanthropic programs focusing on human rights and left-of-center criminal justice policy.
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    Calvin Sims

    Calvin Sims is the CEO of nonprofit organization International House. From 2007-2013, he worked as a program officer for the left-wing Ford Foundation. He sits on the board of The GroundTruth Project, a left-of-center news organization that runs Report for America.
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    Campbell Brown

    Campbell Brown is a television journalist and education reform advocate. After working as a host and anchor for NBC and CNN, she formed the education advocacy group The 74.
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    Candice Owley

    Candice Owley is a retired labor union official who worked as president of Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, an American Federation of Teachers-affiliated union.