Jane Sanders Launches ‘The Sanders Institute’ To Promote Progressive Leaders
Senator Bernie Sanders’s wife, Jane Sanders, announced she is launching a think tank aimed at helping “progressive leaders.”
“The purpose is to revitalize democracy in support of progressive institutions,” Jane Sanders said of the Sanders Institute in a Wednesday interview with The Washington Post.
“Our feeling is at our point in time, our country is at a crossroads, and people are engaged in a political process that can be opaque. A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking. Hopefully, it’s going to increase the number of progressive voices in the mainstream media.”
The Sanders Institute will be a 501c3 spinoff of Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Democratic presidential campaign.
According to Sanders the group’s initial “progressive leaders” will conduct live events on Facebook, make documentaries, pen op-eds and more to reach larger audiences.
The Washington Post reports that Senator Sanders is not officially part of the organization.
Jane Sanders also said “It will not be about Trump,” she said. “It will be about the issues facing the country. I’m not getting paid anything.”
According to the Washington Post, the organization’s leadership will include “Princeton’s Cornel West, Berkeley’s Robert Reich, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), Maryland gubernatorial candidate and former NAACP president Ben Jealous and economist Jeffrey Sachs.”
