People
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Beyers Naude
Tags Share Reverend Allan Boesak and Beyers Naude fought tenaciously to end apartheid in South Africa. Beyers Naude was a South African cleric and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist, who was routinely placed under severe house arrest, monitored by police surveillance, and imprisoned due to his vocal opposition to apartheid. Despite continued legal persecution and…
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CoMadres
Tags Share CoMadres traces its origins to the late 1970s, when a number of women’s groups in El Salvador sought the same truth: the whereabouts of relatives who had gone missing or been assassinated during their nation’s civil war. When Archbishop Oscar Romero encouraged them to unite behind a single banner, CoMadres was born. In…
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Dr. Anthony Fauci
Tags Share Dr. Anthony Fauci was appointed director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 1984. He oversees an extensive portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, and malaria, emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika,…
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Dolores Huerta
Tags Share Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and community organizer who has worked to promote civil rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union; she served as vice president and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four…
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Colin Kaepernick
Tags Share Colin Kaepernick is a professional athlete and human rights activist, known for protesting police violence and racialized systemic oppression by taking a knee rather than standing during the playing of the national anthem while he was the quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. In 2016 he co-founded the Know Your Rights Camp (KYRC),…
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Dan Schulman
Tags Share As president and CEO of PayPal, Dan Schulman is focused on democratizing and transforming financial services and e-commerce to improve the financial health of billions of people and businesses around the world. Under his leadership, PayPal has been named one of the top companies on JUST Capital and Forbes’ list of the JUST…
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Dan Springer
Tags Share Dan Springer is the CEO of DocuSign, the company that pioneered e-signature and now helps organizations to automate their entire agreement process. Under Dan’s leadership, the company is also committing money, time and other resources to help preserve the world’s forests—through DocuSign for Forests, and other initiatives under the ‘DocuSign IMPACT’ umbrella. Dan…
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Deven Parekh
Tags Share Deven Parekh is a managing director at Insight Partners. Since joining the firm in 2000, he has been a vocal advocate for opportunity and inclusion, initiating efforts to promote women and minority leaders across Insight’s internal team, portfolio, and the wider software and investment ecosystems as a whole. Parekh is a member of…
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José E. Feliciano
Tags Share José E. Feliciano is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., a private investment firm founded in 2006. In addition to his investing responsibilities, Mr. Feliciano is responsible for the day-to day management of the firm. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with world-class management teams by providing…
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Stacey Abrams
Tags Share Stacey Abrams is a political leader, voting rights activist, entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author. After serving for 11 years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as minority leader, Abrams became the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, winning more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. Dedicated…
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Tags Share Nancy Pelosi is the 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected the first woman to serve in that role. Now in her third term as speaker, Pelosi made history again in January 2019 when she regained her position as second in line to the…
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Wendy Abrams
Tags Share Wendy Abrams is an environmentalist and social activist. She is the founder of Cool Globes, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of climate change that originated as a project stemming from the Clinton Global Initiative in 2006. Designed to utilize the venue of public art and education, the inaugural Cool Globes:…
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