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Aida Diaz Rivera is a labor union official who serves as president of the Asociacion de Maestros de Puerto Rico, a teachers union in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. She concurrently holds a position as a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers.
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Ajamu Sibeko Baraka is a far-left civil rights and environmental activist. He ran for Vice President of the United States as the running mate of Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein in the 2016 presidential election. Baraka works as an associate fellow at the far-left Institute for Policy
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Albert Arnold “Al” Gore Jr. is a Democratic Party politician and environmentalist activist. He has served as a U.S. Representative, United States Senator from Tennessee, and the 45th Vice President of the United States. He was the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 2000 Presidential election, which he lost to
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Al Sharpton (born Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr.) is a political activist, Baptist preacher, and commentator for MSNBC. In 2004, he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. He is founder and president of the National Action Network (NAN), a 501(c)(3) left-wing political advocacy organization that
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Alan Khazei is the founder of social nonprofit Be the Change Inc. as well as the former CEO of City Year, an educational organization and a program of civil society program AmeriCorps, which had been started under President Bill Clinton. He sits on the board of
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Alan Patricof is a Democratic donor and fundraiser. He made his fortune as a pioneer in venture capitalism and private equity firms.[92] He has been a strong supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, contributing to and holding fundraisers for their political campaigns[93] and the Clinton philanthropies.
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For more on the “Colorado Model,” see Colorado Democracy Alliance and Democracy Alliance Dr. Albert C. Yates is a retired academic administrator who served as the president of Colorado State University from 1990 until 2003 and served on a number of high-profile executive boards. Since retiring from academia, he
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Albert J. Dwoskin is a real estate developer, activist, and major left-of-center donor to the Democratic Party and left-wing causes who resides in Virginia. In addition to being a major donor to left-wing candidates and causes,[141] he sits on the boards of numerous left-wing organizations, at one time
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Alejandro Ruelas is a corporate advertising executive currently working as managing partner of LatinWorks, a Hispanic-focused ad agency.
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Alex Bozmoski is the Managing Director of RepublicEn, a nominally right-leaning environmentalist advocacy organization.
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Alex Caputo-Pearl is the president of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) union and a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). He is an outspoken opponent of charter schools and other education reform measures. Caputo-Pearl has always been seen as a more radical and
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Alex Friedmann is a prison reform advocate and was previously a consultant for the Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Campaign. He was arrested in January 2020 for entering an unfinished Nashville prison facility disguised as a construction worker while attempting to hide firearms and tools inside for prisoners to use in
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Alex Kotch is a left-wing investigative journalist that writes articles supporting environmentalism, highlighting money in politics, and attacking right-of-center groups. Kotch has worked at the left-of-center Institute for Southern Studies and The Young Turks Network. [192] He currently writes for Sludge, a website dedicated to
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Alex Nussbaum is a reporter at Bloomberg news who specializes in energy- and environment-related issues. Before this, he specialized in climate change and environmental issues for Bloomberg. Early Life Nussbaum is a native New Yorker. He is a graduate of Cornell University. [211] In 2002, he attended the
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Alexander Soros is the son of left-progressive finance billionaire and political mega-donor George Soros and deputy chair of the Open Society Foundations, his father’s left-of-center private grantmaking foundation. [219] [220] Alexander Soros has created a foundation under his own name which gives awards to activists working
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Alexandra Boyle is the community impact assistant at Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties.
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Alexandria Bratton is a liberal political activist in the state of Virginia focusing on ethnic representation and Census issues. She is presently a program manager for the Virginia Civic Engagement Table. Career Alexandria Bratton is currently the program manager of the Virginia Civic Engagement Table (VCET), a non-profit organization
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as “AOC,” is a Democratic politician and leader of the radical left of the Party. In 2018, she was elected U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th District located in the Bronx and Queens. First elected at 28 years old, Ocasio-Cortez is as of mid-2020 the youngest
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Alexis Herman is a Democratic Party operative and former United States Secretary of Labor in the Bill Clinton administration. She held multiple positions in the Clinton and Carter administrations, and has taken senior roles with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and other Democratic political efforts. Since leaving government,
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Alexis McGill Johnson is the acting President and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She entered the role on July 16, 2019 following the departure of Leana Wen. [348] Johnson is the co-founder and co-director of the left-of-center Perception Institute and served as
