People (Page 78)


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    Michael Podhorzer

    Michael Podhorzer is the assistant to the president for strategic research for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation of labor unions in the United States. 1  Podhorzer was
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    Michael Quattrone

    Michael Quattrone is a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family who is a poet, singer-songwriter, and nonprofit consultant, board member, and founder. He has personally funded Democratic candidates and used his position in philanthropy to fund left-of-center organizations. He is a grandson to David Rockefeller and recently become more involved
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    Michael S. Regan

    Michael S. Regan is a left-of-center environmental activist who is serving as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Biden administration. Previously, Regan was Secretary of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality under Governor Roy Cooper (D-NC).
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    Michael Sacco

    Michael Sacco is an American labor leader from Brooklyn, New York. He was appointed as the president of the Seafarers International Union of North America, AFL-CIO in June 1988 by the SIUNA Executive Board.
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    Michael Skolnik

    Michael Skolnik is a left-wing activist and co-founder of the media campaign firm Soze Agency. Skolnik is a board member for a number of center-left organizations, including Rock the Vote, the Trayvon Martin Foundation, PolicyLink, and the Gathering for Justice (affiliated with the Women’s March).
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    Michael Sozan

    Michael Sozan, a former Democratic Party political operative and left-leaning governance policy scholar, is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. with close ties to the Democratic Party establishment. Background Following his graduation from law school, Michael Sozan, served as
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    Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein

    Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein is a Democratic Party-aligned consultant and operative who was the Wisconsin lead for the left-of-center National Vote at Home Institute (NVAHI) in Green Bay, Wisconsin, for the 2020 election. 1 In his role
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    Michael Steele

    Michael Steele is a Republican politician and pundit who formerly served as the lieutenant governor of Maryland and as chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Steele is considered an economic conservative and gained popularity as an African American conservative. However, his tenure as chairman of the RNC was
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    Michael T. Morley

    Michael T. Morley is a law professor who has written extensively on election and constitutional law. He has contributed to both the conservative-leaning Federalist Society and the National Task Force on Election Crises, an ostensibly nonpartisan commission on election security that criticized President Donald Trump. Morley is
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    Michael Vachon

    Michael Vachon serves as a spokesman for billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros and as Chairman of the Soros Management Fund.1 He is active on the boards of left-of-center enterprises with
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    Michael Yang

    Michael Yang works as general counsel to Pinterest. He formerly worked as deputy general counsel for Google where he made regular contributions to left-wing electoral candidates. He is a grantor to the left-wing advocacy organization Civic Participation Action Fund.
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    Michel Foucault

    Michel Foucault was a French philosopher best known for his contributions to post-structuralism and postmodernism. Foucault is often considered one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, particularly due to the emergence of critical theory. Foucault’s philosophical work focused on the idea that knowledge and power are inseparable.
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    Michele Lord

    Michele Lord is president of the center-left fiscal sponsorship and pass-through funder NEO Philanthropy as well as chair of the Funders Committee for Civic Participation, a NEO project. Lord is also director of the Ottinger Foundation, a small center-left foundation. She previously worked as director of the Norman
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    Michelle Rhee

    Michelle Rhee is an education reform activist, former Chancellor of the District of Columbia public schools, and spouse of Kevin Johnson, the former Mayor of Sacramento, California. She is the founder of Students First, an education advocacy group, and served as its executive director until the organization merged with
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    Michelle Ringuette

    Michelle Ringuette is a left-of-center political operative and organizer who since 2013 has worked as an official at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) where she has the title of assistant to the president for labor, government relations, and political affairs. She has worked in public relations and as
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    Miguel Cardona

    Miguel Cardona is a longtime educator and the Secretary of Education in the Biden administration. Prior to becoming Secretary of Education, Secretary Cardona worked as an educator in Connecticut and as the state Education Commissioner. During his time as Education Commissioner, Secretary Cardona oversaw the implementation of a statewide
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    Mika Brzezinski

    Mika Brezezinski is a co-host of the MSNBC show “Morning Joe” and the wife of co-host Joe Scarborough.1
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    Mike Cannon-Brookes

    Mike Cannon-Brookes is an Australian technology billionaire who has expanded his interest and investment from software to various environmentalist activism concerns. These efforts have ranged from an attempt to take over Australia’s largest power company and carbon emitter to force it to close coal-fired power plants, to experiments with alternative
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    Mike Lux

    Mike Lux is a Democratic political strategist affiliated with Democracy Partners, and his own firm, Progressive Strategies LLC. His client list has included the League of Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood, and Democracy Alliance. He is a board member at the Arca Foundation and was
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    Mike McCabe

    Michael “Mike” McCabe is a Democratic Party activist and the former founding executive director of the left-leaning Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a position he served in for fifteen years. McCabe now serves as the founder and director of Blue Jean Nation, a platform he founded in 2015 that has allowed