Some CAP Fellows and senior staffers (as of September 2012) with noteworthy left-wing ties:

• David Abromowitz in 2006 co-chaired the Housing Policy Working Group of then-Governor-elect Deval Patrick (D-Massachusetts).
• Eric Alterman is a media critic who claims that American media outlets are largely conservative.
• Cynthia Brown in 1980 was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as the first assistant secretary for civil rights in the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to that, she had worked for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Children’s Defense Fund.
• Kate Gordon served as the first policy director, and eventually the national co-director, of the Apollo Alliance.
• Sheila Greeve Davaney was a program officer at the Ford Foundation from 2007-11.
• Michael Ettinger spent six years at the Economic Policy Institute prior to joining CAP.
• Ken Gude was a policy analyst at the Center for National Security Studies (CNSS), where he focused on post-September 11 civil liberties issues. (The CNSS began as an ACLU project that sought to slash U.S. defense expenditures and undermine the nation's intelligence capabilities.)
• John Halpin was a senior associate at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, providing strategic guidance and public opinion research for political parties and candidate campaigns, including Al Gore’s 2000 presidential bid.
• Lori Lodes previously worked as the Service Employees International Union’s deputy communications director.
• Tara McGuinness served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Congressman Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts), and as a press secretary for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.
• Sasha Post worked at George Soros's Open Society Institute from 2005-09.
• Andrea Purse managed the TV and Radio outreach for a “John Edwards for President” campaign. Prior to that, she had worked as a press advisor for House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. She has also worked in communications and government relations for the Campaign for America’s Future and the Children’s Defense Fund.
• Amy Rosenbaum served nearly five years as policy director for then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
• Daniel Weiss spent 16 years with the Sierra Club, first as a Washington representative, then as director of the Environmental Quality Program, and for the final eight years as political director.