The North Face was founded in San Francisco by Douglas Tompkins and his wife Susie Tompkins Buell.
Susie Tompkins Buell is noted for her close friendship with Bill and Hillary Clinton and her status as a Democratic Party mega-donor
Susie Tompkins Buell is often described as Hillary Clinton's soul mate
Buell along with George Soros and other Democracy Alliance members funded the Secretary of State Project, an American non-profit, 527 political action committee focused on electing reform-minded progressive Secretaries of State in battleground states, who typically oversee the election process
In 2016, Tompkins Buell donated $500,000 to lawyer Lisa Bloom's firm in order to assist women who came forward with sexual harassment and assault allegations against Donald Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election.