List of Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign endorsements

U.S. senators

U.S. representatives

U.S. shadow congresspersons

Former cabinet-level officials

• Robert Reich, U.S. Secretary of Labor (1993–1997)^[17] (co-endorsement with Elizabeth Warren)

State executive officials

State legislators

Mayors

Municipal executive officials

Municipal legislators

DNC members

Other party officials

• Arun Chaudhary, political operative and filmmaker^[149]
• Peter Daou, former strategist for Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Arlen Specter^[150]
• Faiz Shakir, political aide and 2020 campaign manager^[4]
• Brianna Westbrook, Arizona Democratic Party vice chair and candidate for Arizona's 8th congressional district in 2018^[151]

Heads of state and government

Members of national and supranational parliaments

Other international politicians

Activists, humanitarians, and labor leaders

• Ana Maria Archila, activist and executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy^[173]
• Ady Barkan, healthcare activist and attorney^[174] (previously endorsed Elizabeth Warren)^[174]
• Jabari Brisport, activist, actor, teacher, and Democratic candidate for New York State Senate's 25th District^[175]
• Randy Bryce, ironworker, activist, and Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative from WI-01 in 2018^[128]
• Cori Bush, political activist, nurse, pastor, and former U.S. Representative from MO-1 (2021–2025)^[176]
• Tiffany Cabán, candidate for Queens County District Attorney in 2019 and criminal justice reform activist^[177]
• Bonnie Castillo, executive director of National Nurses United and California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee^[178]
• Charles R. Chamberlain, political leader and executive director at Democracy for America^[179]
• Rosa Clemente, community organiser, journalist, hip-hop activist, and Green Party of the United States vice-presidential nominee in 2008^[180]
• Patrisse Cullors, activist and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement.^[181] (co-endorsement with Elizabeth Warren)
• Ryan Deitsch, gun control activist and March for Our Lives co-founder^[182]
• RoseAnn DeMoro, former executive director of NNU and CNA/NNOC^[183]
• Barbara Ehrenreich, political commentator and author^[184]
• Noura Erakat, legal scholar, human rights attorney, activist, and writer^{[citation needed]}
• Jodie Evans, political activist, author, and documentary film producer^[185]
• George Goehl, executive director of People's Action^[186]
• Isra Hirsi, environmental activist and co-founder and co-executive director of U.S. Youth Climate Strike (daughter of Ilhan Omar)^[187][188]
• Leah Hunt-Hendrix, activist, political theorist, and movement builder^[185]
• Ben Jealous, 2018 nominee for Governor of Maryland, president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (2008–2013)^[189]
• Cameron Kasky, gun control activist and March for Our Lives co-founder (previously endorsed Andrew Yang)^[190]
• Bob King, union leader and former UAW President^[191]
• Shaun King, writer and civil rights activist^[192]
• Naomi Klein, author and activist^[193]
• Nomiki Konst, political activist^[194]
• José La Luz, labor activist^[195]
• Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, trans woman activist and community leader for transgender rights, Stonewall riots veteran, and former executive director of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project^[196]
• Winona LaDuke, American environmentalist, economist, writer, executive director of Honor The Earth, and Green Party of the United States vice-presidential nominee in 1996 and 2000^[63]
• Jamie Margolin, climate activist^[187]
• Jane F. McAlevey, union organizer, scholar, author, and political commentator^[185]
• Maurice Mitchell, activist, musician, and National Director of the Working Families Party^[197]
• David Oks, political activist and campaign manager of Mike Gravel 2020 presidential campaign^[198]
• Carmen Perez, activist and national co-chair of the 2017 Women's March^[185]
• Varshini Prakash, environmental activist and founder and executive director of Sunrise Movement^[199]
• Qasim Rashid, political activist and Democratic candidate for Virginia's 28th Senate district in 2019 and Virginia's 1st congressional district in 2020^[200]
• Linda Sarsour, political activist and former executive director of Arab American Association of New York^[201]
• Azadeh N. Shahshahani, human rights attorney and former president of the National Lawyers Guild^[202]
• Barbara Smith, lecturer, author, scholar, lesbian feminist, and socialist^[188]
• Richard Stallman, founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation^[203]
• Paula Jean Swearengin, social and environmental activist and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from West Virginia (2018, 2020)^[176]
• Delaney Tarr, gun control activist and March for Our Lives co-founder^[182]
• Jonathan Tasini, former President of National Writers Union^[204]
• Henry Williams, political activist and chief of staff of Mike Gravel 2020 presidential campaign^[6]
• Marianne Williamson, spiritual leader, author, political activist, and 2020 presidential candidate^[205]
• Eddy Zheng, immigrant and criminal justice activist and youth counselor^[206]

Journalists and commentators

• Elizabeth Bruenig, writer and commentator^[207]
• Matt Bruenig, lawyer, blogger, policy analyst, commentator, and founder of the left-wing think tank People's Policy Project^[208]
• Laura Flanders, broadcast journalist^[185]
• Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and founder of The Intercept^[209]
• Ana Kasparian, main-host and producer at The Young Turks^[210]
• Rania Khalek, journalist and political activist^[211]
• Aya de Leon, novelist, hip-hop theater and spoken-word artist, and professor at the University of California Berkeley^[185]
• Abby Martin, journalist and TV presenter^[212]
• Paul Mason, commentator and radio personality^[213]
• Chirlane McCray, editor, poet, and First Lady of New York City (2014–present)^[214]
• John Nichols, journalist and writer^[215]
• Hasan Piker, Twitch streamer and political commentator^[216]
• Nathan J. Robinson, editor-in-chief of Current Affairs^[217]
• Sarah Schulman, novelist, playwright, gay activist, AIDS historian, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at College of Staten Island (CSI), Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities, and recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award^[185]
• Sam Seder, journalist, political commentator, and comedian^[218][219]
• David Sirota, political commentator, radio host, and 2020 campaign advisor and speechwriter^[220]
• Beverly Smith, writer, feminist, health advocate, instructor of Women's Health at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and author and member of the Combahee River Collective^[185] (twin sister of Barbara Smith)
• Norman Solomon, journalist, media critic, antiwar activist^[221]
• Bhaskar Sunkara, editor and publisher of Jacobin^[222]
• Mark Thompson, newscaster, anchor, and activist^[223]
• Opal Tometi, writer, human rights activist, strategist, community organizer, and co-founder of Black Lives Matter^[185]
• Cenk Uygur, co-host and founder of The Young Turks, co-founder of Justice Democrats, founder of Wolf PAC, candidate for California's 25th congressional district in 2020^[224]
• Antonia Zerbisias, journalist^[225]

Businesspeople

• Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's and 2020 national co-chair^[11]
• Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's^[226]
• Prabal Gurung, fashion designer^[227]
• Christine Hallquist, former CEO of Vermont Electric Cooperative and 2018 nominee for Governor of Vermont^[228]
• Adriel Hampton, digital media, fundraising, and organizing entrepreneur, strategist for political campaigns, and 2022 candidate for Governor of California^[229]
• Joe Sanberg, entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Aspiration, Inc.^[230]
• Michael Sayman, app creator^[231]

Scholars and academics

• Melina Abdullah, civic leader, chair of Pan-African Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles, and co-founder of the L.A. chapter of Black Lives Matter^[185]
• Abdul Alkalimat, professor of African-American studies and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign^[180]
• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, professor of sociology at Duke University, former President of the American Sociological Association^[180]
• Hazel Carby, Charles C & Dorathea S Dilley Professor of African American Studies & American Studies at Yale University^[180]
• Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT^[232]
• Carole Boyce Davies, professor, author, scholar, and Professor of English and Africana Studies at Cornell University^[180]
• Dána-Ain Davis, professor of Urban Studies at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)^[180]
• Norman Finkelstein, political scientist, activist, and Israeli–Palestinian conflict and Holocaust scholar^[233]
• Nancy Fraser, philosopher, feminist theorist^[234][235]
• James K. Galbraith, economist and professor at The University of Texas at Austin^[236]
• Dayo Gore, African-American feminist scholar, professor of Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego^[180]
• Nikhil Goyal, sociologist^[237]
• Darrick Hamilton, microeconomist, social scientist, and executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University^[238]
• Michael Hanchard, political scientist, Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor, and Chair of the Africana Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania^[180]
• Kelly Lytle Hernández, historian, Thomas E. Lifka Chair in History at the UCLA, and MacArthur Fellowship recipient^[180]
• Marc Lamont Hill, academic, author, activist, television personality, and Steve Charles Chair in Media, Cities and Solutions at the College of Media and Education at Temple University^[180]
• Elizabeth Hinton, historian, professor in the Departments of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and 2017 recipient of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award^[180]
• Gerald Horne, historian, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston^[180]
• Peter Kalmus, climate scientist, writer, and activist^[239]
• Harvey J. Kaye, historian and sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay^{[240][241][242]}
• Robin Kelley, academic, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at the University of California, Los Angeles, former Hamsworth Chair of American History at Oxford University (2009), and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient^[180]
• Stephanie Kelton, professor of public policy and economics at Stony Brook University^[243]
• Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of English and Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia^[180]
• Mireille Miller-Young, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara^[180]
• Leith Mullings, author, anthropologist, former President of the American Anthropological Association (2011–2013), Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emerita at the Graduate Center of City University of New York^[180]
• Mark Anthony Neal, author, commentator and academic, and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Duke University^[180]
• Adolph L. Reed Jr., political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania^[244]
• Margo Okazawa-Rey, feminist, activist, writer, founding member of the Combahee River Collective, Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership at Mills College, and professor emerita of San Francisco State University^[180]
• Barbara Ransby, writer, historian, and Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago^[180]
• Russell J. Rickford, scholar, author, associate professor of history at Cornell University, and 2010 co-winner of the American Book Award^[180]
• Jeffrey Sachs, economics professor at Columbia University^[245][246]
• Jane O'Meara Sanders, 4th President of Burlington College, wife of Bernie Sanders^[192]
• Kesho Y. Scott, professor emerita, Grinnell College, and 1988 winner of the American Book Award^[180]
• Lester Spence, media commentator and Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University^[180]
• Ramesh Srinivasan, professor at UCLA, founder of Digital Cultures Lab^[247]
• Sandra Steingraber, biologist and author^[185]
• Susan O'Neal Stryker, author, filmmaker, theorist, and professor of Gender and Women's Studies, former director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona^[185]
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, academic and writer^[248][249]
• Zephyr Teachout, attorney, author, professor at Fordham University, and candidate for New York State attorney general in 2018^[250]
• Cornel West, philosopher, political activist, and social critic^[251]
• George Yancy, philosopher and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University^[180]
• Slavoj Žižek, philosopher, researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts, and International director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London^[252]

Writers, filmmakers, and visual artists

Actors

Athletes and sports figures

Comedians

Media and internet personalities

Musicians

National

• APWU – American Postal Workers Union, representing 200,000^{[b][428][429]}
• NNU – National Nurses United, representing 150,000^[430][431]
• NUHW – National Union of Healthcare Workers, representing 15,000^[432] (co-endorsement with Elizabeth Warren)
• UE – United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, representing 35,900^[433][434]

State, regional, and local divisions

• Vermont State Labor Council AFL–CIO – representing 10,000

National

State, regional, and local divisions

International

Newspapers and magazines

General newspapers and magazines

Student newspapers

Social media

• Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash, Facebook group with roughly 390,000 members^[526]
• da share z0ne, "Weird Twitter" account with 135,000+ followers^[527]
• New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens, Facebook group with roughly 175,000 members^[528]

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