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Rajasvini Bhansali is the director of the activist group Solidaire, which is a project of the Proteus Fund, another “dark money” funder. She previously served on Tide Advocacy’s board of directors. 1
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the director of policy and strategy at The Emes Project LLC, a project of Starbucks founder and CEO Howard Schultz, that works with the left-of-center Schultz Family Foundation. 1 Prior to
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Rajiv Shah is a former Democratic Party operative who currently works as president of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports environmentalist organizations and social policy advocacy through support for organizations such as New America, the Urban Institute, and the
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Rakim Brooks is a left-leaning attorney who since July 2021 has been the president of the Alliance for Justice, a left-leaning legal policy advocacy organization known for its advocacy on behalf of left-leaning federal judicial nominees and opposition to Republican-nominated judicial nominees. Brooks previously worked for the American
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Ralph Nader is an American environmentalist and consumers’-interests activist and left-of-center politician. Though he affiliates with neither major party, his views are generally considered left-wing and he focuses on promoting anti-free-market regulations. Nader became a household name in the 1960s with Unsafe at Any Speed, his investigative report on the
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Ralph Wilson is a cofounder of UnKoch My Campus and an activist who campaigns against the funding of free-market intellectuals in higher education, with a focus on attacking contributions from free-market philanthropist Charles Koch and his late brother, David Koch. Florida State University While at student at Florida State
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Rampa Hormel, a left-of-center environmentalist activist and supporter of Democratic Party candidates, is the president of the Enlyst Fund (formerly known as the Global Environment Project Institute), a board member of the League of Conservation Voters, and a partner of the Democracy Alliance donor collective. Background Rampa
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Randall Akee is a nonresident fellow in the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution, a center-left think tank. He has sat on the U.S. Census Bureau National Advisory Committee since 2013.
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Randi Weingarten is a 30-year union executive who, aside from a brief one-semester stint as a full-time teacher, 1 has almost exclusively served as a union leader. Joining the
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Rashad Robinson is president of the left-progressive pressure group Color of Change. 1
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Rashida Bumbray is a choreographer and performance artist who is the head of culture and art programs at the Open Society Foundations, a large grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and left-leaning philanthropist George Soros. Bumbray joined the Open Society Foundations in 2015 and was promoted to
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Ray D. Madoff is a Boston College Law School professor and academic who focuses on modern philanthropy. She is best known for her criticisms of the donor-advised fund (DAF), a popular charitable investment tool which Madoff has claimed is used by wealthy Americans to avoid paying taxes. In 2020, Madoff
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Ray Haynes is a Republican Party politician and the president of the Institute for the center-left Institute for Research on Presidential Elections as well as spokesman for its advocacy arm, National Popular Vote. Haynes was first elected to the California State Assembly in 1992, the California State Senate
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(Freddie) Ray Marshall is a labor union-aligned, progressive economist and retired University of Texas professor who served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter Administration.
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Raymond Howard, also known as Raymond G. Howard II, is a Black Lives Matter activist who has worked at New Impact Partners (NIP) and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF).
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Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza is a liberal writer and activist.
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Rebecca Fox is a senior program officer for the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) program at the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, a left-of-center foundation founded by three hedge fund billionaires. Fox is a career activist for left-of-center causes, particularly abortion access, health care, and LGBT-interest issues. Career Fox took a
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Rebecca H. Gordon is a partner in the left-leaning law firm Perkins Coie.
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Rebecca Green is an associate professor of law and co-director of the Election Law Program at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is an expert on election law and frequently is sought out by the media and others to comment on the issue. In the aftermath
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Rebecca Klaper is a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, where she is the Associate Dean of the School of Freshwater Sciences and the Director of the Great Lakes Genomics Center.1
