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For more information, see BerlinRosen (For-Profit) Valerie Berlin is a Democratic political strategist and operative based in New York City. She is a principal and co-founder of the for-profit consulting firm BerlinRosen, which she founded with business partner Jonathan Rosen.
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Valerie Jarrett is a Democratic Party operative who served as a senior advisor to President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017 and as co-chair of the Obama-Biden Presential Transition Team following the 2008 presidential election.
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Valerie Rockefeller is a member of the Rockefeller political and philanthropic family who is the board chair of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She is also the co-chair of BankFWD, a network to encourage banks to divest from conventional energy sources. She is the
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Van Jones is a CNN commentator, left-of-center political activist, and former Obama administration official. Jones previously described himself as a communist 68 and as a
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Vanessa Daniel is the founder and executive director of grassroots organization Groundswell Fund and its 501(c)(4) affiliate Groundswell Action Fund. 100
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Vanessa Wruble is a left-progressive activist and co-founder of the Women’s March. Shortly after the first march in January 2017, Wruble left the Women’s March organization due to what she alleges were anti-Semitic statements by fellow senior March leadership.
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Vani Deva Hari is a controversial food blogger, activist, and affiliate marketer. She and her husband operate the Food Babe blog and Food Babe LLC.
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Vanita Gupta is a civil rights attorney, government official, and nonprofit executive. She served as associate attorney general in the Biden Administration from 2021 to 2024, and before that was president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR).
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Vasser Seydel is an environmentalist and a philanthropist. She is the daughter of environmentalist Laura Turner Seydel and the granddaughter of CNN founder and media mogul Ted Turner. Seydel is a campaign director for The Oxygen Project, an organization that her father, Rutherford Seydel, founded. Currently, she is working
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Vatsala Pathy is a member of the board of directors for nonprofit group New Venture Fund, which is managed by left-leaning philanthropic consulting firm Arabella Advisors. In addition, she is the founder and former managing director for nonprofit healthcare firm Rootstock Solutions, as well as the prior State
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Vernetta Walker is a nonprofit attorney who has worked or consulted for a number of left-progressive organizations.
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Vijay Prashad is a Marxist journalist and historian. An ardent supporter of communism, Prashad is the author of many books defending the ideology’s legacy and is a frequent contributor to a number of left-wing news sites and publications.
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Vincent Ryan is the founder of Schooner Capital, and runs the Schooner Foundation, which gives to a variety of progressive causes. 184
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Virginia Kase (also known as Virginia Kase Soloman) is the CEO of the League of Women Voters (LWV), a left-of-center policy and voting rights advocacy group. She was previously the COO of CASA, a left-of-center immigrant advocacy group. Early Life Virginia Kase grew up in Hartford, Connecticut. She
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Vivek Ramaswamy is the co-founder and executive chairman of Strive Asset Management. He is the founder and former CEO of Roivant Sciences. 194 He is the author the 2021 book Woke Inc. about
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Vivian Schiller is the CEO of media group Civil Foundation as well as the former CEO of center-left media group NPR and the Global Chair of News for Twitter. She sits on the board of The GroundTruth Project, a left-of-center news organization that runs Report for America.
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Wade Henderson is the Interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a 501(c)(4) organization which advocates for legislation to protect civil and human rights.
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Wade Rathke is a professional political organizer, labor union activist, and co-founder of the now-defunct Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a controversial, left-of-center community organizing group. Rathke also worked as ACORN’s chief organizer from 1970 to its closure in 2008. Aside from his work with ACORN,
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Walker Hamilton was the former chief technology officer for the Democratic campaign consulting firm Revolution Messaging. Currently, he is the chief technology officer for the online business process software company Tallyfy, Inc.
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Wallis Annenberg is the president of the Annenberg Foundation, a multibillion-dollar private foundation which funds various left-of-center political groups and causes in the Greater Los Angeles area and throughout the nation. According to the Annenberg Foundation’s 2018 tax return, the foundation has over $1.4 billion in assets, putting it
