People (Page 59)


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    Kali Akuno

    Kali Akuno  is the co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, a nonprofit that focuses on building a cooperative network of social justice-oriented businesses in Jackson, Mississippi.
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    Kalle Lasn

    Kalle Lasn is an Estonian-Canadian film maker, author, magazine editor, and activist. Near the end of World War II, his family fled Estonia and Lasn spent some time in a German refugee camp.
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    Kamala Harris

    Kamala Harris is Democratic politician from California. Before her election to the Vice Presidency of the United States in the Biden administration, she was a United States Senator, California Attorney General, a former district attorney, and a former prosecutor. Harris started her career as a prosecutor in California. She
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    Kamau Franklin

    Kamau Franklin is the board president of Community Movement Builders, Inc., a left-leaning community organizing nonprofit. He previously served as the director of the Mississippi NAACP and the south regional director of American Friends Service Committee.
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    Kandace Montgomery

    Kandace Montgomery is a left-wing anti-police organizer based out of Minneapolis. She is a co-founder and leading member of the Black Visions Collective (BVC) activist group, and she helped found Reclaim the Block (RTB), which has lobbied the Minneapolis City Council to defund law enforcement. She has previously worked
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    Karen Ackerman

    Karen Ackerman is an American author of children’s books.
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    Karen G. J. Lewis

    Karen G. J. Lewis (born Karen Jennings) was a teachers union activist based in Chicago, Illinois, who worked as president of the Chicago Teachers Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union in the United States. In 2012, she organized a teachers’ strike
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    Karen Hobert Flynn

    Karen Hobert Flynn is president of Common Cause, a progressive advocacy group oriented around campaign finance law and policy, redistricting, and left-of-center policy objectives, as well as respectively co-chair and member of the board of the similarly-aligned Democracy Initiative and Democracy21. Background Prior to working for
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    Karen Hughes

    Karen Hughes is a former counselor to President George W. Bush and senior advisor of Americans for Carbon Dividends, a nominally right-leaning advocacy group created in 2018 to lobby Congressional Republicans for a carbon tax-and-dividend program.
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    Karen Leaffer

    Karen Leaffer is a left-of-center nonprofit lawyer based in Denver, Colorado. She is the founder and managing partner of Leaffer Law Group, a specialized firm which provides legal counsel to nonprofit organizations. Leaffer is an active philanthropist and member of left-of-center donor networks, serving on the board of the
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    Karen Nussbaum

    Karen Nussbaum is a career left-of-center organizer and feminist activist who has spent more than 50 years working to increase the political and societal influence of labor unions. She has held leadership positions with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the AFL-CIO, two of the most powerful
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    Karen Paget

    Karen Paget is a former Open Society Foundations fellow, author, and contributor to The American Prospect, a left-of-center publication that advocates for expanding the size of the federal government and increased welfare spending. 1 Open Society Foundations
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    Karine Jean-Pierre

    Karine Jean-Pierre is a Haitian-American political campaign organizer, activist, political commentator, and lecturer in international and public affairs at Columbia University. She is the Senior Advisor and National Spokeswoman for MoveOn.org.
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    Karl Frisch

    Karl Frisch is a Democratic politician and political operative who has worked with several left-progressive political campaigns and organizations as a communications director, press secretary, and field director at the federal level. He is member of the Fairfax County School Board in Virginia and sits as chair of the board’s
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    Karla Jurvetson

    Karla Jurvetson is a physician, philanthropist, and the wife of businessman and investor Steve Jurvetson. 1 Jurvetson is a
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    Kate Fleury

    Kate Fleury is the acting communications director of State Innovation Exchange (SIX). Previously, she had worked as the deputy communications director of Colorado House Democrats. She 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
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    Kate Krontiris

    Kate Krontiris is a researcher, strategist and facilitator associated with left-of-center activism. 1 Krontiris has provided consulting services to several large organizations such as Google, Facebook, and the Democracy Fund, as well
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    Kate Shaw

    Kate Shaw is a professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and a left-of-center political commentator. She frequently comments on legal and election-related issues. In addition to being a law professor, Shaw is a legal analyst for ABC News. She is also the co-host of the
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    Kate Snyder

    Kate Snyder is a consultant at Snyder Strategies. She was formerly a communications director at America Votes. She 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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    Katherine Lorenz

    Katherine Lorenz is the chair of the board of the left-of-center environmental activist Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation (CGMF). 1