People (Page 29)


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    Derrick Jensen

    Derrick Jensen is a radical author and environmental activist. He has been described as an “anarchoprimitivist” ecophilosopher.
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    Derrick Johnson

    Derrick Johnson is the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He previously served as Vice Chairman of the NAACP National Board of Directors. 1
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    Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear

    Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear is an advocate for Native American interests. She is the co-founder of the United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network (USIDSN), a nonprofit which collects data on Native American populations for research and advocacy purposes, including increasing government benefits. Recently, the organization has been outspoken in its promotion of
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    Devon Goss Buffett

    Devon Goss Buffet is a children’s book author and a philanthropist. She is married to Howard G. Buffett, the second son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and has five children.
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    Diana Barrett

    Diana Barrett is the founder of the Fledgling Fund and a former Harvard University professor of business and public health. A professor from 1980 to 2004, she launched The Fledgling Fund in 2005 for the purposes of funding media projects promoting left-of-center advocacy interests, most prominently environmentalist documentary films.
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    Diana Blank

    Diana Blank is a funder of environmentalist causes through the Kendeda Fund.
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    Diane Babineaux

    Diane Babineaux is a trustee for the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, a board member of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, a board member of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, and a board member of IAM’s Guide Dogs of America.
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    Diane Feeney

    Diane Feeney is the former Director of the French American Charitable Trust and former President of FACT Services Co. Inc. She is currently a chair in the Development Committee of the Center for Community Change.
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    Diane Ravitch

    Diane Ravitch is a self-described “public school activist” and an opponent of charter schools 1 who is the founder and president of Network for Public Education.
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    Diann Woodard

    Diane Woodard died on May 6, 2018.
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    Dick Gephardt

    Richard Andrew “Dick” Gephardt is a former Democratic Party politician and lobbyist for corporate, labor union, and Democratic Party-aligned organizations. 1  Gephardt played a role in the 2020 presidential election by shoring up corporate donations to create a messaging
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    Dick Mark

    Dick Mark is a left-of-center political consultant that specializes in environmental advocacy work and political non-profits.
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    Dipayan Ghosh

    Dipayan Ghosh is a left-leaning technology policy advisor and computer scientist who currently is a fellow and co-director of the Platform Accountability Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He previously was a White House technology policy advisor
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    Dirk Wiggins

    Dirk Wiggins is the CEO of echo19, a Washington, D.C.-based telecommunications platform that consults for and assists left-of-center political and advocacy groups. He is also the chairman of the board for Code for Progress. 1 Wiggins
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    Ditas Katague

    Ditas Katague is the director of California Complete Count Census 2020 (CCCC), an advisory committee to the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research. She has over 20 years’ experience working with legislatures for the public and private sector in a wide variety of roles. Katague is a specialist in
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    Divesh Makan

    Divesh Makan is an investment advisor who has worked with many Silicon Valley billionaires, most prominently Mark Zuckerberg.
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    Dolores Huerta

    Dolores Huerta, born Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta, is a labor union activist and community organizer best known for co-founding the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union with Cesar Chavez. She has had close associations with community organizers like Cesar Chavez, Fred Ross, and Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky.
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    Don Carlisto

    Don Carlisto is the co-president of the Saranac Lake Teachers Association, and a member of the New York State United Teachers board of directors.
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    Don Chen

    Don Chen has been President of the Surdna Foundation since 2018. He had previously spent ten years at the Ford Foundation, most recently serving as Director of the Just Cities and Regions program.
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    Donald Gips

    Donald Gips is president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, a leading environmentalist funding organization founded by former eBay president Jeffrey Skoll. Gips’s career spans the Clinton and Obama administrations, anti-poverty efforts domestically and internationally, and four years as the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. Gips