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Adrian Johnston is an academic philosopher teaching at the University of New Mexico as of February 2024. He specializes in Marxist thought. In 2024, his book Infinite Greed argued that people in capitalist societies pursue wealth through work at the expense of their own dreams and desires.
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Adriana Dakin is the senior director of marketing at Do Big Things.
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Adrienne Coleman is a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) trainer based in Illinois. In addition to working as the director of equity and inclusion at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), Coleman conducts trainings and presentations for other businesses, schools, and organizations. In one of her presentations, she presented
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Ady Barkan is a political activist and project director at the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) and founder of the Fed Up campaign. He is a former fellow for the left-wing Make the Road New York and speaker at the April 2018 Democracy Alliance Conference.
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Aftyn Behn is a far-left activist and the Campaign Director for advocacy group RuralOrganizing.org. 1 She was previously the statewide Indivisible organizer for Tennessee
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Agnes Gund is an heiress and philanthropist known for her work as a patron of the arts and as a funder of left-of-center causes. She is the chair of the left-of-center organization Art for Justice Fund, which works to release inmates and works to reduce prison sentences. In addition
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Ahsia Badi is the Census Director of Emgage, a Muslim-American advocacy and voter mobilization group. As such, she campaigns at both the local and state levels to maximize Muslim participation in the 2020 Census. Badi partners with community organizations, mosques, and cultural institutions..
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Ai-jen Poo is a left-of-center labor organizer and executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA). Poo is closely aligned with a range of left-of-center foundations and organizing groups, sitting on the advisory boards of MoveOn.org, MomsRising, and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.
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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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Aileen Adams is chair of the board of the Weingart Foundation, a left-of-center California grantmaking institution. She was appointed to high-ranking positions in the administrations of former President Bill Clinton, former California Governor Gray Davis (D), and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D). She has
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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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Akash Shendure is a Seattle, Washington-based environmentalist who created ClimateJets.org, a website that tracks the carbon dioxide emissions of private jets and examines the disparity in emissions between the wealthy and ordinary people. At the time of the creation of the website, Shendure was just 17 years old. His father
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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 M. Parker is a British businessman and major support of left-of-center environmentalist projects and the Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road Initiative. Parker made his fortune primarily through selling his shared in the DFS Group, a Hong Kong-based retailer that operates luxury duty-free shops in airports and resorts. He
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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.1 He has been a strong supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, contributing
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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,
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Alberto Olivas-Reyes has been involved in numerous community organizations, both nationally and in his state of Arizona, as well as held several different positions in the government of Arizona. He was formerly on the board of the get-out-the-vote organization Democracy Works, and currently is the executive director of the
