People (Page 47)


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    James O’Sullivan

    James O’Sullivan is a left-of-center activist and career nonprofit manager. While he works as a senior staffer of Stand Up To Cancer, an organization ostensibly dedicated to fighting cancer, he previously spent decades at organizations promoting left-of-center policies and social movements. He formerly worked as a program officer for the
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    James P. Hoffa

    James P. Hoffa is the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, commonly known as the Teamsters Union. He is the son of James R. “Jimmy” Hoffa, the mid-20th century leader of the same union who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1975. In February 2020, Hoffa announced that he
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    James Rucker

    James Rucker is a left-of-center political activist who co-founded the left-of-center advocacy and activist groups Color of Change and Citizen Engagement Lab. He is considered a pioneer of contemporary left-of-center “Netroots Nation”-style digital activism, especially on racial issues. Background Rucker was born and raised in Seaside, a town in Monterey
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    James Simons

    James Simons is a billionaire retired manager of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies and mathematician. Forbes lists Simons the second-highest-earning hedge fund manager in 2018. 1 He is a top donor to liberal causes and the Democratic
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    James Tucker

    James Tucker is an associate with Morrison Foerster, a law firm.
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    James Zogby

    James Zogby is the Managing Director of Zogby Research Services, as well as co-founder of the Arab American Institute and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He was a member of the Democratic National Committee’s Executive Committee for sixteen years, and worked on the presidential campaigns of Jesse
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    Jamie Gorelick

    Jamie Gorelick is an attorney and longtime Washington, D.C. Democratic political operative. She is currently a partner at the DC-based WilmerHale law firm. Her career has been marked by controversy. As Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, she drafted a memo that greatly restricted information sharing between federal law
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    Jamie Rappaport Clark

    Jamie Rappaport Clark is the current CEO of Defenders of Wildlife, an environmental nonprofit that focuses on conservation.
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    Jamie Williams

    Jamie Williams is the current President of The Wilderness Society.
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    Jan Hochadel

    Jan Hochadel is a left-of-center labor union activist who works as vice president of the American Federation of Teachers Connecticut and as Vice President of the Connecticut AFL-CIO. Background Before becoming involved in labor activism, Jan Hochadel was a science teacher at J.M. Wright Technical High School in
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    Janai Nelson

    Janai Nelson is an academic, entrepreneur, and civil rights attorney. After working at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) for 13 years and establishing herself as the organization’s “long-time second-in-command,”
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    Janaye Ingram

    Janaye Ingram is a political activist, director of national partnerships for the home-sharing service Airbnb, and a co-founder and board member of the Women’s March Inc. Ingram previously served as executive director of National Action Network (NAN), a left-wing activist group led by the controversial activist Al Sharpton.
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    Jane Carter

    Jane Carter is a labor economist working for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) government worker labor union.1 She is known for her liberal ideology and pro union work, including outspoken
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    Jane Fonda

    Jane Fonda is an Academy Award-winning actress and a longtime left-wing political activist. The daughter of actor Henry Fonda,1 Jane Fonda won two Oscars for her
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    Jane Goodall

    Jane Goodall is an English primatologist and far-left environmentalist. Though Goodall is best known for her chimpanzee research, she has spent much of her career as an environmentalist activist, supporting left-of-center environmental projects in both climate change and radical animal rights activism. To provide a platform for her environmentalism, Goodall
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    Jane Kleeb

    Jane Kleeb is chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party and a political strategist.
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    Jane Mayer

    Jane Mayer is a left-of-center investigative reporter and contributor the New Yorker. Prior to joining that publication, Mayer worked as a White House correspondent and as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Mayer has covered issues including U.S. military policy, the Trump administration, and campaign finance.
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    Jane O’Meara Sanders

    Jane O’Meara Sanders is the former President of Burlington College, wife of Senator Bernie Sanders, and founder of the progressive nonprofit The Sanders Institute.
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    Janelle Hu

    Janelle Hu is a progressive political activist that does political advocacy on behalf of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Native Hawaiian immigrant communities.
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    Janet Domenitz

    Janet Domenitz is a left-of-center activist and executive director of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), one of the largest members of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG), an alliance of left-of-center research and advocacy groups founded by former left-wing activist and presidential candidate Ralph