People (Page 54)


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    John Haas

    John Charles Haas was an American businessman and philanthropist, at one time considered the second richest man in Philadelphia. He was the chairman of global chemical company Rohm and Haas from 1974 to 1978. His family created the William Penn Foundation, a major left-of-center grantmaking foundation in the city;
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    John Holdren

    John P. Holdren is a physicist who co-authored a textbook that commented on the advisability of compulsory abortion as a response to global population growth.
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    John Hunting

    John R. Hunting is a philanthropist who is the son of David D. Hunting, a founder of Steelcase, an office furniture manufacture based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 2006 he was noted as a major contributor to liberal or progressive 527 organizations.
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    John Jackson

    John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D. is the dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University Pennsylvania. His research topics include critical race theory and media studies. 1 “John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D.” Annenberg School for Communication – University of Pennsylvania. Accessed August 19,
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    John Kerry

    John Kerry is a former U.S. Senator, presidential candidate, and U.S. Secretary of State. Kerry is currently the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate under President Joe Biden. Special Envoy Kerry’s politics have been assessed in the past as on the left wing of the Democratic Party.
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    John Koza

    John Koza is a left-leaning California mathematician, businessman, and registered Democratic voter. Koza is the co-founder, chair, and a member of the board of directors of National Popular Vote, an organization attempting to replace the state-by-state Electoral College in Presidential elections with a plurality-at-large national vote. Anti-Electoral College Advocacy
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    John Lefebvre

    John Lefebvre, is a Canadian musician, composer, author, entrepreneur, retired lawyer and philanthropist, currently active as an author and activist on climate change issues.
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    John Lindback

    John Lindback is a co-founder and former executive director 1 of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) voter-registration monitoring system.
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    John Lowenthal

    John Lowenthal is the son of former Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) and a former candidate for California’s 72nd Assembly District.
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    John McDonald

    John McDonald is a Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and has been the president of and chief negotiator for the Henry Ford Community College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1650, in Dearborn, Michigan, since 1978.
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    John Morgan

    John Morgan is a Florida-based trial lawyer and a partner and founder of one of the nation’s largest law firms, Morgan and Morgan. Morgan has donated millions of dollars to Democratic candidates
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    John Neffinger

    John Neffinger is the principal of of KNP Communications. He is also on the advisory committee of Our Story Hub, a project of the Proteus Fund, which advises left-of-center politicians and groups on communication strategies.
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    John Palmer

    John Palmer is an international organizer for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters since 2003 for labor unions.
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    John Pang

    John Pang is a former member of the global board of the Open Society Foundations, the flagship organization within the international grantmaking and advocacy network of Hungarian billionaire financier and activist George Soros. Originally from Malaysia, Pang has advised the offices of the Malaysian minister of education and
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    John Podesta

    John Podesta is a Democratic political operative who has served as White House Chief of Staff in the Clinton administration, Counselor to the President in the Obama administration, and chair of the Hillary Clinton 2016 Presidential campaign. He is also the co-founder and former president of the Center
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    John R. McKernan

    John R. McKernan is a board member of American Action Forum and a former governor of Maine.
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    John R. Taylor

    John R. Taylor is the managing partner of the private philanthropy consulting firm Wellspring Advisors and the founder of its associated left-of-center foundation, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund. Taylor previously worked for Berger & Montague P.C. from 1989-1997 and as a litigator for Dechert LLP from 1986 to 1989.
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    John Rutherford Seydel III

    John Rutherford Seydel III is the oldest grandson of media mogul Ted Turner, the founder of CNN. He holds positions with a variety of non-profit organizations founded or run by his family and works as the director of sustainability for the city of Atlanta.
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    John Seitz

    John Seitz, a former investment manager, is the founder and CEO of Foundation Financial Research LLC, a foundation-focused financial analytics firm with three divisions: FoundationMark, FoundationIQ, and FoundationAdvocate. Background Prior to founding Foundation Financial Research, Seitz worked for various nonprofit organizations through an Outsourced Chief Investment Office and also
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    John Stankey

    John Stankey serves as chief executive officer of WarnerMedia, the largest entertainment company in the world. 1 Prior to taking up the head of WarnerMedia,