People (Page 80)


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    Morris Dees

    Morris Dees is the co-founder and former chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Dees was involved with the SPLC for 48 years and grew the organization into one of the largest civil rights organizations in the United States. The SPLC bankrupted numerous prominent extremist organizations
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    Morris Pearl

    Morris Pearl is a left-of-center financier and activist. He is the board chair of The Patriotic Millionaires, an organization of wealthy individuals who advocate for higher taxes on high-income Americans. The group also pushes for other left-leaning economic and social policies such as an increased minimum wage. Pearl also
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    Morton Halperin

    Morton Halperin is an activist and political advisor who has worked for the Nixon, Johnson, and Clinton administrations. He sits on the board of directors for ONE Action, is the chair emeritus for J Street, was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and
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    Muhammad Khalifa

    Muhammad Khalifa is a professor of educational administration and executive director of Urban Education Initiatives at Ohio State University. 1 He is founder, president, and CEO of Adjusted Equity Solutions,
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    Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook) is a former leader in the Black Panther Party and supporter of Philadelphia’s MOVE organization. He has been incarcerated in Pennsylvania since 1982 when he was convicted of murdering a Philadelphia police officer after a trial that his supporters have described as unfair and
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    Mutulu Shakur

    Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams) is an American activist who led far-left Black nationalist and separatist groups in the late 1960s and 1970s. He co-founded the Republic of New Afrika Movement, was a member of New Afrikan Independence Movement, and worked in collaboration with the Black Panther Party.
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    Myron Mitchell

    Myron Mitchell is a professor of Environmental Resources Engineering at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.1  He also works for the Hubbard
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    Nan Aron

    Nan Aron is an American lawyer and the founder and president of Alliance for Justice, a liberal judicial advocacy group in the United States. Staunchly progressive, Aron has been a noted opponent of conservative judicial nominees in the United States.
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    Nan Hayworth

    Nan Hayworth is a Republican politician who served as U.S. Representative from New York’s 19th Congressional District from 2011 until 2013. In 2018, Hayworth was appointed by President Donald Trump to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition.
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    Nana Gyamfi

    Nana Gyamfi is an attorney and the executive director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI). She has previously worked as an adjunct professor at the Pan African Studies Departmentat California State University Los Angeles and hosted a radio show and podcast called Conversations On the Way: The Asafo
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    Nancy Beeuwkes

    Nancy Beeuwkes is a retired psychiatric nurse, Democratic Party donor, and spouse of Reinier Beeuwkes, a scientist and entrepreneur in the biomedical-pharmacy field. Beeuwkes and her husband between 2016 and 2020 collectively made $1,752,100 in contributions to the Democratic Party and left-of-center organizations,
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    Nancy Packard Burnett

    Nancy Packard Burnett is an heiress and philanthropist. She is the daughter of technology entrepreneur David Packard, who co-founded Hewlett-Packard. Burnett sat on the board of trustees of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation until her retirement in 2022. While on the foundation’s board, she steered grants to environmentalist
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    Nancy R. Bagley

    Nancy Bagley is the president of the Arca Foundation, a foundation funder of various left-of-center causes and groups. She is also on the board of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, a North Carolina-based funder of left-wing groups and causes in that state. She also is the editor of
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    Nancy Wohlforth

    Nancy Wohlforth is an American activist and union leader for labor and LGBTQ causes. She served as the former Secretary-Treasurer for the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU)1
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    Nancy Youman

    Nancy Youman is a career left-of-center philanthropic strategist and consultant. Since the summer of 2020, she has worked for Unbound Philanthropy, a New York City-based grantmaking organization which primarily supports initiatives to loosen immigration laws. The organization is closely tied to the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the flagship
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    Nandini Jammi

    Nandini Jammi is a co-founder of the advertising consultancy Check My Ads, which pressures brands and advertisers that advertise on center-right and right-of-center websites and media programs to terminate their sponsorship under the guise of “rooting out disinformation and hate speech from their digital media buys.”
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    Naomi Aberly

    Naomi Aberly is a left-of-center activist best known for chairing the board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). She is an activist donor for a number of left-of-center and liberal PACs and candidates for public office. Aberly also sits on the board of directors for State Innovation
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    Naomi Klein

    Naomi Klein is a prominent Canadian activist, syndicated columnist, and author of four books. She is a Writing Fellow at the Nation Institute and contributing editor for The Nation magazine. She has written articles for Harpers, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Guardian,
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    Naomi Oreskes

    Naomi Oreskes is a historian of science and climate activist. 1 She is the author of a number of books critical of non-weather-dependent sources of energy including Merchants of Doubt, Why Trust Science, and
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    Naomi Roth

    Naomi Roth is the Massachusetts organizing director of Families for Excellent Schools and a board member of Green Corps, an advocacy group affiliated with the Public Interest Network.