Campaign for America’s Future was founded in July 1996 as “the strategy center for the progressive movement.”
Current Board of Directors
Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Drum Major Institute
Lara Bergthold, Act III Productions
Jeff Faux, Economic Policy Institute
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers
Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org
Hilary Shelton, NAACP Washington Bureau
Co-Directors of the Campaign for America’s Future
Roger Hickey, President
Robert L. Borosage, Secretary-Treasurer
Democratic Socialists of America connection
Of the founders listed above John Atlas, Paul Berman, Norman Birnbaum, Julian Bond, Mitchell Cohen, Richard Cloward, William Domhoff, Peter Dreier, Barbara Ehrenreich, Richard Flacks, Adam Hochschild, Michael Kazin, Charles Knight, Peter Laarman, Nelson Lichtenstein, Steve Max, Jay Mazur, Harold Meyerson, Lawrence Mishel, Frances Fox Piven, Frank Riessman, Richard Rorty, Sumner Rosen, Richard Rothstein, Theda Skocpol , Stanley Sheinbaum, Jack Sheinkman, John Sweeney, Michael Walzer, Roger Wilkins and William Julius Wilson, were confirmed members of Democratic Socialists of America or of one of its two predecessors
Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee or the New American Movement.
Institute for Policy Studies connection
Of the founders listed above, many have ties to the far left Institute for Policy Studies
Robert L. Borosage is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Progessive bridge
Campaign for America’s Future leader Robert Borosage boasts of close relationship with top Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Dick Durbin.
“I’d say we are the bridge,” Borosage said. “We are attuned to the grassroots and in touch with the progressive leadership in Congress.”