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Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022)
journalist, historian, essayist, peace activist, politician, immunologist, opinion journalist, political activist, feminist
- Reed College, The Rockefeller University
Dave Eggers (born 1970)
editor, journalist, activist shareholder
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, UIUC College of Media
Jeremy Brecher (born 1938)
social worker, historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, opinion journalist, documentarian, political activist
Lyndon LaRouche (1922-2019)
politician, peace activist, political activist, presidential candidate, economist
- Northeastern University
Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)
politician, trade unionist, peace activist, political activist
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812-1887)
translator, historian, playwright, journalist, poet, painter, opinion journalist, drawer, collector, literary critic, national revival activist
- Vilnius University
Andrée Chedid (1920-2011)
poet, women's rights activist, playwright
- The American University in Cairo
Miles Franklin (1879-1954)
women's rights activist