Endorsements

Barbara Boxer (Honorary Chair), former U.S. Senator and former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-CA)

Antonio Villaraigosa, former Los Angeles Mayor and California Assembly Speaker

Rick Caruso, Philanthropist, Business Leader, Founder of Steadfast LA, and former Los Angeles Police Commission President

Councilmember Kate Anderson, Agoura Hills

Dr. Howard Mandel, Chairman of the City of Los Angeles Health Commission

Dr. Barry Pressman, Member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District

Helena Rosenthal, Business Leader and Chair, Beverly Hills Health and Safety Commission

Erica Felsenthal, PhD, Neuropsychologist and Vice Chair, Beverly Hills Health and Safety Commission

Terri Smooke, Philanthropist and Vice Chair, Beverly Hills Architectural and Design Review Commission

Josh Flagg, Realtor and Beverly Hills Cultural Heritage Commissioner

George Nickle, Business Leader and West Hollywood Public Safety Commissioner

Jordan Cockeram, Business Executive and West Hollywood Business License Commissioner

Lynn Hoopingarner, Business Executive and West Hollywood Planning Commissioner

Teamsters Joint Council 42

International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 13

International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 63

International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 94

Ada Horwich, MSW, Member of the Board of Directors, Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) 

Adam Sieff, Attorney and Member of the Board of Directors of Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California (JPAC)

Alex Kissin, Member, Venice Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and Co-Founder, Venice Insider Pass

Andrea Grossman, Founder of Writers Bloc Presents

Annie Gilbar, Journalist and Author

Art Ochoa, Chief Advancement Officer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Barry Meyer, Business Leader and Philanthropist

Barry Porter, Business Leader and Philanthropist

Rabbi Beau Shapiro, Rabbi in Residence, Skirball Cultural Center

Bob Beyer, Business Leader and Philanthropist

Ambassador Robert Tuttle, Co-Managing Partner, Tuttle-Click Automotive Group and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Camilo Becdach, Partner, McKinsey & Co. and Board Member, Para Los Ninos

Cara Natterson, MD, Author and Activist 

Carole Goldberg, Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA Law

Chad Tew, Education Entrepreneur

Chris Keyser, Screenwriter and former President, Writers Guild of America West 

Cindy Flagg, Attorney and Philanthropist

Cliff Gilbert-Lurie, Attorney and Philanthropist

Dan Clivner, Attorney, Philanthropist, and LGBTQ Leader

Daniel Weinstock, Entrepreneur and Restaurateur

David Herbst, former Chairman, El Segundo Chamber of Commerce and Founding Partner, Vectis Strategies

David Hochman, Attorney and Founder and President of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Foundation

David Nathanson, Media Entrepreneur, Co-owner, Angel City FC and Treasurer, U.S. Soccer Foundation

Debbie Powell, Philanthropist

Donna Black, Attorney

Ellen Ziffren, Co-Founder, Stand Up To Cancer

Erald Sejdini, Entertainment Executive and Community Volunteer

Eric George, Attorney and former Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary to the CA Governor 

Florence Sloan, Film Producer and Philanthropist

Gary Freedman, Attorney and Civic Leader

Gary Gilbar, Architect and former member of the Beverly Hills Planning, Architectural, and Design Review Commissions

Gelila Puck, Designer and Philanthropist

Harry Sloan, Business Leader and Philanthropist

Harvey Englander, Founding Partner, Englander, Knabe & Allen and Nonprofit Leader

Heather Karatz, Business Leader and Co-owner, Angel City FC

Helen Mirren, Academy Award-winning Actress

Hope Warschaw, Civic Leader and Philanthropist

Jacki Karsh, Journalist and Jewish Activist

Ambassador James Costos, Entertainment Executive and former U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain and Principality of Andorra

Jane Nathanson, MA, MFCC, Philanthropist, Licensed marriage, family and child therapist and Founder of the Nathanson Family Resilience Center at UCLA

Jane Olson, Author and Humanitarian

Jason Blum, Entertainment Executive and Philanthropist

Jay Roth, former National Executive Director, Director’s Guild of America

Jay Sures, Member of the Board of Regents, University of California and Vice Chairman, United Talent Agency

Jeffrey Karsh, Business Leader

Jennie Tucker, Co-Founder, Venice Insider Pass

Jerrold Green, Ph.D, Interim President & CEO, Pacific Council for International Policy

Joan Kessler, Arbitrator, Mediator and Nonprofit Leader

Rabbi Joel Simonds, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, founding Executive Director, Jewish Center for Justice (JCJ), and founding President of Partnership for Growth LA

Jon Favreau, Co-Founder, Crooked Media

Jonathan Tucker, Actor and Activist

Joyce Rey, Philanthropist and Realtor

Julie Platt, Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, and Philanthropist

Julie Waxman, Writer and Philanthropist

Ken Ziffren, Attorney and former Los Angeles Film Czar

Kimberly Marteau Emerson, Activist, Philanthropist, and former Member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council

Laura Shell, Activist, Philanthropist, former member of the Los Angeles County Planning Commission, and former Planning Deputy to Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky

Laurel Baker Tew, Educator and Nonprofit Leader

Lauren Schuker Blum, Screenwriter, Journalist, and Philanthropist

Lauryn Harris-Pimstone, Attorney and Philanthropist

Lea Porter, Realtor and Philanthropist

Les Bider, Business Leader and Philanthropist

Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, Attorney, Author, Philanthropist, Founding Board Member of the Alliance for Children’s Rights, former member of the Los Angeles County Board of Education, and former Vice Chair of the Los Angeles Blue Ribbon Commission on Child Welfare

Lindsay Rachelefsky, Philanthropic and Political Advisor and Nonprofit Leader

Lynn Bider, Philanthropist and Vice Chair, Jewish Federation Los Angeles

Lynn Vavreck, Author and Professor

Ambassador Marc Nathanson, Business Leader, Philanthropist, and former U.S. Ambassador to Norway

Maria Hummer-Tuttle, Attorney, Philanthropist, and former Chair of the Getty Trust

Marjorie David, Screenwriter and CA Democratic Party Delegate

Martha Karsh, Attorney and Philanthropist

Marylouise Oates, Journalist, Activist, and Philanthropist

Matt Kozlov, Managing Director of Techstars LA, Techstars Healthcare, and Techstars Space

Matthew Louchheim, Business Leader and Jewish Philanthropist

Michael Flagg, Business Leader

Ambassador Michael Lawson, Attorney and former U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and former President and CEO of the Los Angeles Urban League

Michael Smith, Designer and Philanthropist

Mitchell Kaplan, Co-Founder and President, Kaplan Stahler Agency and Board Member of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare

Nanci Rascoff, MD, MPH, Doctor and Philanthropist

Nancy Rubin, Philanthropist and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights

Neema Sahni, Attorney

Ambassador Noah Mamet, Business Leader and former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina

Rachel Storm, Community Volunteer

Richard S. Ziman, Business Leader and Philanthropist, CEO and Co-Trustee of The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and Founder of the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and the Ziman Family Oncology Outpatient Center at City of Hope

Rick Grossman, Business Leader

Rick Powell, Business Leader and Past Chair of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple

Ron Olson, Attorney and Philanthropist

Sabina Nathanson, Entertainment Executive, Philanthropist, Founding Board Member and Officer of Baby2Baby, and Founding Investor in Angel City FC

Scott Edelman, Attorney, Philanthropist, and former Board President of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Bet Tzedek Legal Services, and American Jewish Committee LA

Seth Freeman, MPH, Screenwriter, Healthcare Activist, and Philanthropist

Shayna George, Business Leader and Philanthropist

Sherry Grant, Attorney and Philanthropist

Sherry Lansing, Philanthropist, Retired Entertainment Executive, Co-Founder of Stand Up To Cancer, and Recipient of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Skip Kessler, Attorney and Philanthropist

Spencer Rascoff, Business Leader and Philanthropist

Susan Edelman, Attorney and Philanthropist

Susan Estrich, Attorney and Activist

Susan Sprung, CEO and National Executive Director of the Producer Guild of America and Philanthropist

Tara Tucker, Community Volunteer

Taylor Hackford, Award Winning Director and Past President of the Directors Guild of America

Teddy Karatz, Business Leader

Tina Caruso, Philanthropist

Tony Storm, Attorney and Incoming Chair of the Beverly Hills Bar Association

Vishal Sahni, Attorney

Wendy Levine, Founder of Beauty Bus and Philanthropist

Wendy Smith Meyer, PhD, LCSW, Retired Educator, Philanthropist, and Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Foster Youth Institute