People (Page 64)


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    Kris Hayashi

    Kris Hayashi is a left-of-center activist and transgender man who is the current executive director of the Transgender Law Center, a left-of-center public interest law firm that advocates for the rights of transgendered and gender nonconforming people. The Transgender Law Center was founded in 2002 as a project of
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    Kriss Deiglmeier

    Kriss Deiglmeier is a career nonprofit executive and the former CEO of Tides, a center-left pass-through funding nonprofit and part of the larger Tides Nexus, a position she held from February 2014 to late 2019. In addition to her work with Tides, Deiglmeier has supported left-of-center activism as a
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    Kristen Clarke

    Kristen Clarke is a left-of-center activist lawyer currently serving as Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division in the Biden administration. Prior to joining the Biden administration, she worked as president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under
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    Kristen Grimm

    Kristen Grimm is a Democratic-aligned political consultant and campaign strategist. She is founder and president of Spitfire Strategies, a consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. that caters to professional groups on the Left.
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    Kristen Lee

    Kristen Lee, a former Democratic Congressional staffer, is a policy analyst at the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). She has authored material on behalf of ACLU on matters related to election administration and District of Columbia statehood. Capitol Hill Career Starting on March 9, 2015, Kristen Lee worked
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    Kristin Engberg

    Kristen Engberg is a left-wing social justice activist and CEO of Beespace – a left-of-center advocacy group that seeks to initiate social change.
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    Kristin Mugford

    Kristin Mugford is a former director at Bain Capital, who now teaches courses on finance at Harvard Business School. She is involved in left-of-center politics as a contributor to Democratic politicians and left-of-center interest groups, most prominently serving on the board of directors of the Democratic establishment-aligned think tank
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    Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

    Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner is a feminist author and the co-founder and executive director of MomsRising, a left-of-center activism group. Before she co-founded MomsRising, she was an environmental consultant and worked on other left-of-center causes, particularly environmentalist ones. Rowe-Finkbeiner is also an advocate for expansive access to abortion. She criticized the
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    Kristina Curtis

    Kristina Curtis is senior vice president of Green Century Capital Management (Green Century Funds), a left-leaning investment management firm affiliated with Doug Phelps and the Public Interest Network.
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    Kyle Herrig

    Kyle Herrig is an activist and attorney who serves on the boards of, or as an adviser to, various left-of-center advocacy projects. Several projects he serves with are connected to the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit organization created and managed by philanthropic firm Arabella
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    Kyle Kulinski

    Kyle Kulinski is the socialist-leaning host of Secular Talk, a YouTube-based political talk show he created in 2008 while a student at Iona College. A report on the show in the socialist opinion journal Jacobin stated that its format is part of the YouTube “logic warriors” trend, “a battleground that
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    Laleh Ispahani

    Also known as Lalehnaz Ispahani, Laleh Ispahani is the U.S. executive director of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF). Laleh, who had been serving as co-director of OSF, was appointed to succeed former OSF executive director Tom Perriello in April 2023.
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    Lamis Deek

    Lamis Deek is a Palestinian-American lawyer, activist for controversial Palestinian initiatives, and opponent of the State of Israel’s existence. 1 She is a member of
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    Land Tawney

    Land Tawney is a left-of-center sportsmen’s advocate who is closely aligned with the Democratic Party of Montana and environmentalist groups. He leads Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, an organization ostensibly involved in outdoors advocacy that is heavily funded by left-environmentalist institutions.
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    Lanny Davis

    Lanny Jesse Davis is an American lawyer, consultant, lobbyist, author, and television commentator. He is the co-founder and partner of the law firm of Davis Goldberg & Galper PLLC, and co-founder and partner of the public relations firm Trident DMG. Background Davis has previously served as special counsel to former
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    Laphonza Butler

    Laphonza Butler is a left-of center Democratic activist with a history of work as a labor organizer and abortion activist. Buter worked as president of EMILY’s List, the prominent Democratic donor collaborative from September 2021 to October 2023.
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    Lara Siree Johnson

    Lara Siree Johnson is deputy director for the center-left environmental litigation nonprofit EarthRights International (ERI) and a former ERI board member. Prior to that, she was senior development officer for the Rocky Mountain Institute. From 2008 to 2014, she was regional coordinator for George Soros’ Open
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    Larry Alcoff

    Larry Alcoff is a labor union official who works as a lead negotiator for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). A close ally of SEIU president Mary Kay Henry, Alcoff has led negotiations for a variety of SEIU units, including SEIU Healthcare Illinois, and was appointed as
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    Larry Carter

    Larry Carter Jr. is a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers union. He is also the president of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers and School Employees union, a statewide affiliate of the AFT. United Teachers of New Orleans Carter began his teaching career in 1993 at
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    Larry Cohen

    Larry Cohen is a former trade union official who headed the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and a Democratic political operative who chairs Our Revolution, the political action committee associated with socialist-aligned U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Cohen began his career as a union activist and spent