People (Page 48)


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    Janet Maughan

    Janet Maughan is a left-of-center advocacy-philanthropic executive currently working as executive director of the Passport Foundation. She previously worked for both the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation and is a board member for Earthjustice. Occupation Janet Maughan is the executive director of the Passport
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    Janet McCabe

    Janet McCabe is a lawyer and environmental activist who in 2021 was appointed the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Biden administration.
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    Janet Murguia

    Janet Murguia is the president and CEO of UnidosUS, a left-of-center Hispanic activist group formerly known as National Council of La Raza (NCLR), or simply “La Raza.” Murguia worked as a deputy assistant to the President in the Clinton administration before becoming deputy director of legislative affairs and
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    Janet Shenk

    Janet Shenk is a board member and former executive director of the Arca Foundation, one of several left-of-center funding entities associated with the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune. Shenk is a former editor of the San Francisco-based social-democratic magazine Mother Jones. She has also been active in labor union
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    Janine Yass

    Janine Yass is an education philanthropist and the wife of Jeffrey Yass, the right-of-center billionaire founder of Susquehanna Capital. Janine is a supporter of school choice and directs tens of millions of dollars toward school choice programs annually. In 2021, she founded the Yass Prize to award education providers
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    January C. Romero Reissman

    January C. Romero Reissman is a nonprofit management official who currently works as vice president for community impact at the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties. Personal Life and Education January C. Romero was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1984. She attended Yale University where she
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    Jared Bernstein

    Jared Bernstein is a left-of-center economist and chair of President Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers.1 He was one of the architects of President Biden’s economic policies in his first proposed
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    Jared Huffman

    Jared Huffman is a Democratic Party politician and the U.S. Representative for California’s 2nd Congressional District, a position he has held since 2013. Prior to his election to the California State Assembly, Huffman was a practicing consumer attorney and senior attorney to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a
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    Jared Isaacman

    Jared Isaacman is an American billionaire, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and commercial space pilot notable for founding and managing both Draken International, a private military contractor specializing in aviation, 1 and Shift4
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    Jared Polis

    Jared Polis is a liberal politician, internet businessman, and political donor. From 2009 to 2018, he served as the Democratic U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 2nd district, which is dominated by the university town of Boulder. In the 2018 midterm election, Polis was elected governor of Colorado. Polis earned a fortune
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    Jason Franklin

    Jason Franklin is a co-founder of the left-of-center Solidaire Network. 1 Franklin has spent over twenty years engaged with left-progressive philanthropy.
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    Jason Kauppi

    Jason Kauppi is a board member of Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, a right-leaning environmental advocacy organization funded by and connected to left-wing environmentalist organizations. Kauppi formerly worked as a spokesperson Republican Governors Paul Cellucci and Jane Swift of Massachusetts.
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    Jason Kint

    Jason Kint is the chief executive officer of Digital Content Next (formerly the Online Publishers Association), a trade group for digital content producers. Kint is an outspoken critic of Google and Facebook, which he has labeled a “duopoly,”
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    Jason Leopold

    Jason Leopold is an American reporter who currently works as a senior investigator for Buzzfeed News. He has previously worked for numerous other left-of-center media outlets, including Al Jazeera America,1 Vice News,
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    Javier Valdes

    Javier Valdes is a left-of-center operative working as the U.S. director of civic engagement and government at the Ford Foundation. He is the former head of Make the Road New York and Make the Road Action. Valdes has been credited with limiting the enforcement of federal immigration
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    Jay Faison

    Jay Faison is an advocate of “conservative clean energy solutions” to tackle climate change. He founded the nonprofit organization called ClearPath, which promotes Republican-oriented climate solutions. He also founded the company SnapAV. Background Jay Faison is a businessman, environmentalist and major contributor to the Republican Party who founded ClearPath
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    Jay Halfon

    Jay Halfon is an attorney who serves as legal counsel, board member, and strategist for several left-of-center non-profits, focusing mostly on environmentalist policy. As of 2019, Halfon is a board member at Earthworks, 350.org, the Sustainable Markets Foundation (where he is also general counsel
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    Jean Ross

    Jean Ross is the Co-President of National Nurses United, a labor union representing registered nurses. 1
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    Jeanne Kracher

    Jeanne Kracher is the executive director of the Crossroads Fund, a Chicago-based foundation that primarily promotes left-of-center causes.
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    Jee Kim

    Jee Kim is the co-founder of 18MillionRising, a center-left Asian American advocacy group. Kim previously worked as a program officer and program director for the Surdna Foundation. He is the former program officer for civic engagement and government for the Ford Foundation.