WRobert S. Adler is a consumer advocate in the United States. He is a member of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and currently serves as its acting chairman. He is a Democrat, and was elected due to a surprise vote crossing party lines from former acting chair Ann Marie Buerkle.
WStanley Aronowitz is a professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a veteran political activist and cultural critic, an advocate for organized labor and a member of the interim consultative committee of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. In 2012, Aronowitz was awarded the Center for Study of Working Class Life's Lifetime Achievement Award at Stony Brook University.
WMedea Benjamin is an American political activist who was the co-founder of Code Pink with Jodie Evans and others. Along with activist and author Kevin Danaher, the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. Benjamin was the Green Party candidate in California in 2000 for the United States Senate, receiving the highest raw vote total of any Green Party U.S. Senate candidate. She has contributed to OpEdNews and The Huffington Post.
WJoseph Carcione was a consumer advocate known as "The Green Grocer."
WDavid Keith Cobb is an American attorney, political activist, and campaign manager, who was the Green Party presidential candidate for the 2004 election. Cobb later became the campaign manager for fellow Green Jill Stein for her presidential run in 2016.
WElizabeth Mary Furness was an American actress, consumer advocate, and current affairs commentator.
WMark Joseph Green is an American author, former public official, public interest lawyer and Democratic politician from New York City. He worked with Ralph Nader from 1970 to 1980, eventually as director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch, and was president of Air America Radio from 2007 to 2009. His 2001 campaign for mayor of New York is chronicled in the 2002 Sundance film Off the Record: The 9/11 Election.
WElliot F. Kaye is one of five commissioners on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. He led the CPSC as chairman from 2014 to 2017 under the Obama administration, directing the U.S. government's oversight and recall of everyday products that can cause injury or death.
WFlorence Moltrop Kelley was a social and political reformer and the pioneer of the term wage abolitionism. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights is widely regarded today.
WBoaz Keysar is the Chair of the Cognition Program at the University of Chicago, and broadly researches communication, negotiation, and decision making.
WGene Kimmelman is a consumer protection advocate who specializes in competition law and United States antitrust law.
WWillem "Wim" Kok was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and trade union leader who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 August 1994 until 22 July 2002.
WMeglena Shtilianova Kuneva is a Bulgarian and EU politician.
WAlice Lakey was an American activist supporting the Pure Foods Movement and the use of insurance. Lakey lectured, wrote, and lobbied extensively. She was instrumental in obtaining passage of the federal Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, and in creating state laws to protect the quality of milk in 1909. At a time when women were not allowed to vote, she was credited with mobilizing over one million women to write letters in support of the food and drug act through her work with women's groups.
WDavid Lazarus is an American business and consumer columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He joined the paper in August 2007.
WLucy Randolph Mason was a 20th-century American labor activist and suffragette. She was involved in the union movement, the consumer movement and the civil rights movement in the mid-20th century.
WJoseph P. Mohorovic was a member of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. He resigned from the Commission effective October 20, 2017, to join a law firm and work in Chicago and Washington, D.C.
WHazel Monteith, O.D., J.P. was an Afro-Jamaican consumer rights advocate, radio personality and social worker. Graduating from the first course in social work offered by the University of the West Indies, Monteith worked for twelve years as a traveling field agent coordinating social welfare projects for the Jamaica Federation of Women. In 1972 she became a regional officer at the Council of Voluntary Social Services and was tasked with creating the Citizen's Advice Bureau. Through innovative programs, she developed training and advice centers and radio broadcasts to help citizens with a wide variety of issues from how to register vital records, to employment training, to where to obtain assistance for household goods. She was honored as an officer in the Order of Distinction in 1982 and subsequently appointed a Senator from 1986 to 1989.
WRalph Nader is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes.
WEsther Eggertsen Peterson was an American consumer and women's advocate.
WHubertus Primus is a lawyer, journalist and manager. At the present time (2011) he is the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine test and a member of the Management Board of Stiftung Warentest, the German consumer organisation.
WAnaseini Qionibaravi was a Fijian politician. She was the first woman to serve in the Senate.
WPhilip David Radford is an American activist who served as the executive director of Greenpeace USA. He is the founder and President of Progressive Power Lab, an organization that incubates companies and non-profits that build capacity for progressive organizations, including the Progressive Multiplier Fund and Membership Drive. Radford is a co-founder of the Democracy Initiative, was founder and executive director of Power Shift, and is a board member of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. He has a background in grassroots organizing, corporate social responsibility, climate change, and clean energy.
WFlorence M. Rice is an American Harlem-based consumer activist and educator. She is the founder of the Harlem Consumer Education Council. She has been called the "Ralph Nader of Harlem" and is also known as the mother of the Harlem Consumer Movement.
WEirlys Rhiwen Cadwaladr Roberts was a Welsh consumer advocate and campaigner, and a co-founder of the Consumers' Association. She edited Which? magazine from 1957 to 1973.
WHarvey Rosenfield is an American lawyer, author and consumer advocate. In 1985, he founded Consumer Watchdog, a nationally recognized, nonpartisan nonprofit public interest group. He serves as the group's counsel.
WIn the United States, Donald K. Ross is a public interest lawyer. Ross proposed the model of Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGS) with Ralph Nader. Ross became the first director of the NYPIRG. He helped to found the Albany law firm of Malkin & Ross, and its associated advocacy organization M+R Strategic Services. He has served on the board of directors of environmental organizations.
WMary Harriman Rumsey was the founder of The Junior League for the Promotion of Settlement Movements, later known as the Junior League of the City of New York of the Association of Junior Leagues International Inc. Mary was the daughter of railroad magnate E.H. Harriman and sister to W. Averell Harriman, former New York State Governor and United States Diplomat. In 2015 she was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
WHari Dev Shourie (1911–2005) was a well-known consumer activist in India.
WJeffrey M. Smith is an American consumer activist, self-published author, and former politician. He is the author of two books on genetically engineered foods, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating, and Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives, which he made into a film in 2012. He has appeared twice on each of the shows -The Dr. Oz Show and The Doctors. Smith has worked with organic food marketers and alternative health product promoters to advocate against genetically modified food. Supporters identify Smith as an influential educator on the alleged risks associated with genetically modified foods, while others point out Smith's lack of formal scientific training. In 1998, Smith ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a candidate for the Natural Law Party. As of 2021, Smith is the executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, and executive director of the global campaign Protect Nature Now.
WHermann-Josef Tenhagen is the former Editor-in-Chief of Finanztest, the German monthly magazine dealing with financial issues published by Stiftung Warentest, the German consumer organisation.
WMichael J. Vernon, AM was a prominent Australian consumer activist. Vernon was born in Portsmouth, United Kingdom in 1932 to John Ernest Vernon and Caroline Clark Vernon. In 1955, he emigrated to Australia, where he settled in Canberra. He was a joint founder of Canberra Consumer in 1962 and served on the Executive of Canberra Consumer until his death in 1993.
WHarvey Washington Wiley was an American chemist who fought for the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and subsequently worked at the Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories. He was the first commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration. Wiley was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1904. He was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1910.
WMarvin Harold Zindler was a news reporter for television station KTRK-TV in Houston, Texas, United States. His investigative journalism, through which he mostly represented the city's elderly and working class, made him one of the city's most influential and well-known media personalities.