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Notable Alumni by Category
Business, Finance
Paul Bennett ’75—Vice president and treasurer, Chevron Texaco
Marta Benson ’84—Senior vice president, Strategy and Business Development, Williams-Sonoma
Binswanger Family—Philadelphia-based national and international commercial real estate advisory and brokerage services firm (John ’54, Frank Sr. ’50, Jeff ’78)
William Bissell ’88—Managing director of Fabindia Overseas Limited, Reg’d, India’s largest private retail platform for products made by artisans treated as shareholders
Ron Bloom ’77—Senior adviser, Lazard; former senior counselor for manufacturing policy for Obama administration and head of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry
John Borthwick ’87—Founder and CEO, Betaworks, investment company
Brad Burnham ’77—Founding partner, Union Square Ventures, investment company
Jonathan Bush ’93—Co-founder, CEO, and president of Athenahealth, Inc., a health care technology company
David Campbell ’75—President, Ring’s End Lumber, a prominent retail lumber, millwork, and building specialties company in Connecticut
Marc Casper ’90—CEO, Thermo Fisher
Tos Chirathivat ’85—CEO, Central Retail Corporation, the largest Thai retailer
Bob Coleman ’68—Senior vice president, Merrill Lynch
Robert Crispin ’68—Former president and CEO, ING Investment Management
Alan Dachs ’70—President, CEO and director of The Fremont Group (private investment company); former chair of the Wesleyan Board of Trustees
David Daniel ’77—CEO, Spencer Stuart and Associates (executive search firm)
D. Ronald Daniel ’52—Director and former CEO, McKinsey and Company; former treasurer, Harvard Corporation
Dana Dunne ’85—Chief commercial officer, EasyJet
James van B. Dresser ’63—Former senior vice president and chief administrative officer, Boston Consulting Group; former chair of the Wesleyan Board of Trustees
Sid Espinosa ’94—Director of corporate citizenship and philanthropy at Microsoft; councilmn and former mayor, Palo Alto, California
Charles Exley ’51—Director, Merck; retired CEO and chairman, NCR, Inc.
John Frank ’78 ’12—Managing principal, Oaktree Capital Management in Los Angeles, one of the world’s leading alternative investment managers
James Frischling ’90—President and co-founder, NewOak Captial
Lexy Funk ’91—Co-founder and CEO, Brooklyn Industries
Lindsay Gaskins ’99—Founder and CEO, Marbles: The Brain Store
Thomas Giuffrida ’71—President of JRT Ltd., telecommunications company
Ian Hague ’83—Co-founder and principal of Firebird Management LLC, a financial fund management company with expertise in Russia
Darryl Hazel ’70—Retired senior vice president, Ford Motor Company; former president, Ford Customer Service Division
Anita Hersh ’76—CEO, Lister Butler Consulting, Inc., a Manhattan marketing agency
Robert Hunter ’62—Senior adviser, Rand Company; former United States ambassador to NATO
Herb Kelleher ’53—Founder and retired chairman, president and CEO, Southwest Airlines
Thomas Kelly ’73—President and CEO, Schaller Anderson, Inc., health management company
Edward ("Ted") Kennedy Jr. ’83—Co-founder and president, Marwood Group, healthcare advisory and financial services firm
Will Lansing ’80—CEO, FICO
Douglas Levin ’84–Former CEO, Fresh Samantha
David Lipton ’75—First deputy managing director, International Monetary Fund; previously member of the National Economic Council at the White House and treasury undersecretary
Gary Loveman ’82—CEO, Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc., and former professor at Harvard Business School
Karin Mayhew MALS ’92—Senior vice president, Health Net, Inc.
Mary McWilliams ’71—Executive director, Puget Sound Health Resources; previously president and CEO, Regence Blue Shield
David Meadvin ’03—President, Inkwell Strategies, executive communications company
Jack Mitchell ’61—CEO and chair, Mitchells and Richards, two high-end clothing stores in southwestern Connecticut/Long Island; author of Hug Your Customers
Donna Morea ’76—Retired president, CGI-AMS
Stephanie Oppenheim ’84—Child development expert and publisher; co-founder of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio and a consumer authority on children’s media and toys
Robert Patricelli ’61—Chairman and CEO, Women’s Health, USA; director, Newman’s Own and Northeast Utilities
Andrew Parkinson ’80 and Thomas Parkinson ’82—Founders, Peapod, Inc.; Andrew is president and Thomas is senior VP and technology officer
Robert Pruzan ’85—Founding partner, Centerview Partners, financial advisory and private equity firm; former president and CEO in investment banking, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
Amy Radin ’79—Senior executive vice president and chief marketing officer, AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company
David Resnick ’81—Managing director and co-head of investment banking, Rothschild North America
Steven Rhinesmith ’65—Senior partner at Mercer Delta Executive learning center
Gregg Ribatt ’90—Former president and CEO, Collective Brands Performance + Lifestyle Group
John Rice ’74—Former president and CEO of Unilever
Stefan Selig ’84—Executive vice chairman of global and investment banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Frank Sica ’73—Managing director, Tailwind Capital LP; president, Menemsha Capital Partners, Ltd., a private investment firm
John Shapiro ’74—Co-founder and managing director, Chieftain Capital Management
Todd Snyder ’84—Managing director, Rothschild North America
Jonathan Soros ’92—CEO, JS Capital Management; senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank based in New York City
Joel Tillinghast ’80—Portfolio manager, Fidelity Investments
Adam Usdan ’83—Founder, president, and general partner, Trellus Management Co., LLC
John Usdan ’80—President of Midwood Management, a company specializing in real estate ownership, development, and management
John Woodhouse ’53—Co-founder, CLW Group; previously senior chair, chief executive officer, Sysco Corporation
Comedy
Andrew Gottlieb ’88—Co-creator and executive producer of the Independent Film Channel
Meredith (Orren) Hoffa ’98—Writer and comedian
Wendy Spero ’97—Comedian, actress, and author (Who’s Your Daddy? Microthrills)
Adam Stone ’05 and Todd Stone ’05—Comedy duo twins who have appeared in commercials and on the reality TV show Last Comic Standing
Education
Douglas Bennet ’59—Former president, Wesleyan University; former president and CEO, National Public Radio
Anthony Caprio ’67—President, Western New England College, and a French language scholar
Gerald Baliles ’63—Director, Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia; former governor of Virginia
Beverly Daniel Tatum ’75—President of Spelman College and author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Gordon Eaton ’51—Retired director, U.S. Geological Survey; former director, Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, and former president, Iowa State University
Peter Dybwad ’61—President, The Wright Institute, a clinical psychology graduate school in Berkeley
Ted Fiske ’59—Educational writer, creator of The Fiske Guide to Colleges
Karl Furstenberg ’67—Retired dean of admissions and financial aid, Dartmouth; former dean of admission, Wesleyan
Leslie Greengard ’79—Director, Department of Mathematics; director, Courant Institute of Mathematics, New York University
Charles Ingrao ’69—Professor of history at Purdue University and director of the Scholars’ Initiative, a project on the history of the Yugoslav conflicts
Patricia Keir MAT ’69—Eastern Iowa Community College district chancellor
David Klatell ’70—Chair of international studies and professor of professional practice, the Journalism School at Columbia University
John Lipsky ’68—Distinguished visiting scholar of international economics, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University; former first deputy managing director, International Monetary Fund
Anthony Marx ’81—President and CEO, New York Public Library; former president, Amherst College
Jerome Parker ’69—President, Delaware County Community College in Media, Pennsylvania
David Rhodes ’68—President of the School for the Visual Arts in NYC, leader and innovator in the education of artists
Michael Roth ’78—President, Wesleyan University; former president, California College of the Arts
Richard Schneider MALS ’73—President of Norwich College in Vermont, the nation’s oldest private military college
Francis Voigt ’62—Co-founder, president, and CEO, New England Culinary Institute
Robert Weisbuch ’68—Former president of Drew University, and former president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Energy
Steve Badanes ’65—Founder of Jersey Devils, an architectural firm specializing in energy-efficient structures; Howard Wright Endowed Chair, University of Washington
David Brewster ’95—Co-founder, COO, and president of EnerNOC, Inc., the Energy Network Operations Center, offering technology-enabled energy management consulting services
Lisa Frantzis ’79—Managing director, Navigant Consulting, and specialist in renewable energy issues
Ladeene Freimuth ’89—Founder and president, The Freimuth Group, LLC, a domestic and international energy and environmental consulting firm
W. David Montgomery III ’66—Vice president, CRA International; authority on energy and environmental policies and regulation
Film, TV
Philip Abraham ’82—Film and television director and cinematographer (Annapolis, The Sopranos, Mad Men, I Love You, Beth Cooper)
Sasha Alpert ’82—Former producer, Project Runway
Miguel Arteta ’89—Film and television director (Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Youth in Revolt, Cedar Rapids, The Carrie Diaries)
Michael Bay ’86—Film producer and director (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, The Island, Transformers film series)
Carter Bays ’97—Co-creator and writer of television comedy shows (How I Met Your Mother, The Goodwin Games)
Jordan Belfi ’00—Actor (Entourage)
Shari Springer Berman ’85–Film director and screenwriter (with Robert Pulcini—American Splendor, The Nanny Diaries, The Extra Man, Cinema Verite, Imogene)
Mark Bomback ’93—Screenwriter (Live Free and Die Hard, Godsend, Race to Witch Mountain, Unstoppable, Jack the Giant Killer, Total Recall)
Jacob Bricca ’93—Documentary filmmaker and editor (Pure, Indies Under Fire, Lost in La Mancha)
Bruce Corwin ’62—Chairman and CEO, Metropolitan Theatres Corp.
Jennifer Crittenden ’92—Television and film producer and writer (The New Adventures of Old Christine, Everybody Loves Raymond, Seinfeld, What's Your Number?)
Dana Delany ’78—Emmy Award-winning actress whose credits include television shows (China Beach, Desperate Housewives, Body of Proof) and films (Tombstone, Fly Away Home)
Eric Dachs ’98—Sound editor and designer; founder and CEO, PIX System
Ed Decter ’79—Screenwriter and director (There’s Something About Mary, The Santa Clause 2 and 3, The New Guy, In Plain Sight)
Jan Eliasberg ’74—Director (NCIS: Los Angeles, Blue Bloods), producer, writer (Sisters)
Matt Ember ’83—Screenwriter (Failure to Launch, Get Smart)
Toby Emmerich ’85—President and CEO of New Line Cinema
Jennifer Flackett ’86—Screenwriter (Madeline, Wimbledon, Little Manhattan)
Ruben Fleischer ’97—Film director (Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less, Gangster Squad)
Stephen Friedman ’91—President, MTV
Michael Fries ’85—President and CEO, Liberty Global Inc., international cable operator
Liz W. Garcia ’99—Television writer and producer; film director and writer (Wonderfalls, Cold Case, Memphis Bea, The Lifeguard)
Willie Garson (William Paszamant) ’85—Actor (John from Cincinnati, Sex and the City, White Collar)
Daniel C. Gold ’75—Cameraman (The Perfect Storm, Spider-Man, Tropic Thunder, I Love You Man, Fame)
Akiva Goldsman ’83—Producer and Oscar-winning screenwriter (A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Angels and Demons)
David Goodman ’95—Television producer and writer (Fringe, Without a Trace)
Matthew Greenfield ’90—Vice president of production, Fox Searchlight Pictures; film producer (The Motel, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl)
Eleo Hensleigh ’80—Senior vice president, marketing and communications, Travel Channel
Jon Hoeber ’93—Screenwriter (Red, Man on the Ledge, Battleship)
Dina Kaplan ’93—Co-founder of Blip TV; former news reporter, winning Emmy Award for Spot TV
Evan Katz ’83—Television and executive producer and writer (The Commish, 24, The Event, Awake)
David Kendall ’79—Film and television writer, director, producer (Growing Pains, Boy Meets World, iCarly, Hannah Montana)
David Kohan ’86—Co-creator and executive producer (Will and Grace, Partners)
Alex Kurtzman ’95—Film and television screenwriter and producer (Alias, Transformers, Fringe, Star Trek [2009]); director and co-writer, People Like Us
Jeffrey Lane ’76—Television producer and writer (Mad About You); also, book writer for the musicals Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Adam Leff ’90—Screenwriter and producer (PCU, Valentino: The Last Emperor)
Dylan Leiner ’93—Executive vice president, acquisitions and production, Sony Pictures Classics
James Longley ’94—Documentary filmmaker (Iraq in Fragments); recipient of MacArthur grant
Laurence Mark ’71—Film and television producer (Jerry Maguire, As Good As It Gets, Dreamgirls, Julie & Julia, Political Animals, Last Vegas)
Jim Margolis ’93—Showrunner, Newsrunners; co-executive producer (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
C. Richard (Rick) Nicita ’67—Independent manager; former co-chairman and COO, Morgan Creek Productions
Sascha Paladino ’98—Documentary filmmaker (Throw Down Your Heart)
Matt Penn ’80—Television director and executive producer (NYPD Blue, Law and Order)
Zak Penn ’90—Screenwriter and television producer (The Incredible Hulk, X-Men: The Last Stand, Alphas); director (Incident at Loch Ness, The Grand)
Katey Rich ‘06—Writer, Cinema Blend
Tom Rogers ’75—President and CEO, TiVo; former chairman and CEO of media conglomerate Primedia
Jessica Sanders ’99—Documentary filmmaker (After Innocence)
Paul Schiff ’81—Film producer (My Cousin Vinny, Rushmore, Mona Lisa Smile, Solitary Man)
Stephen Schiff ’72—Screenwriter (Lolita, True Crime, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)
Peter Schube ’81—President and COO, Jim Henson Company
Matt Senreich ’96—Emmy-nominated screenwriter, television producer, and director, Robot Chicken
Sadia Shepard ’97—Documentary filmmaker (In Search of Bene Israel) and producer (The September Issue); also, author (The Girl from Foreign)
Dan Shotz ’99—Television writer and producer (Harper’s Island, Jericho, Common Law)
Marc Shmuger ’80—Former CEO and chairman, Universal Pictures
Craig Thomas ’97—Co-creator and writer of television comedy shows (How I Met Your Mother, The Goodwin Games)
Jon Turteltaub ’85—Film director (Phenomenon, While You Were Sleeping, National Treasure, Last Vegas); creator of television dramas (Jericho, Harper’s Island, Common Law)
Matthew Tyrnauer ’91—Documentary filmmaker (Valentino: The Last Emperor)
Jason Weinberg ’89—Founding partner, talent manager, Untitled Entertainment
Matthew Weiner ’87—Emmy Award-winning creator, writer, executive producer of Mad Men; film director and writer (You Are Here)
Roger Weisberg ’75—Award-winning documentary filmmaker (Road Scholar, Sound and Fury, Why Can’t We Be a Family Again?, Aging Out)
Paul Weitz ’88—Film director (In Good Company, American Dreamz, Little Fockers, Being Flynn, Admission; and with brother Chris Weitz, American Pie, About a Boy); also, playwright (Privilege, Show People, Trust, Lonely, I'm Not)
Joss Whedon ’87—Creator, producer, director, and writer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog [Emmy Award]); film director and screenwriter (Speed, Toy Story, Serenity, The Cabin in the Woods, The Avengers)
Mike White ’92—Screenwriter and television producer (Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, School of Rock, Nacho Libre, Enlightened); director (Year of the Dog)
Bradley Whitford ’81—Film, television, and stage actor (The West Wing [Emmy Award], Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Billy Madison, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Cabin in the Woods)
Bill Wrubel ’85—Television producer and writer (Will and Grace, Ugly Betty, Modern Family)
Benh Zeitlin ’04—Film director and screenwriter (Glory at Sea, Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Food, Wine
Eric Asimov ’79—Chief wine critic at The New York Times
Bruce Cost ’66—Co-founder of Wow Bao, an Asian fusion restaurant in the Chicago Loop; partner in Big Bowl restaurants; author of several cookbooks, including Big Bowl Noodles and Rice
Paul Levitan ’85—Co-founder, president and CEO, Galaxy Desserts
Michael Leviton ’88—Owner and chef of Lumiere Restaurant outside Boston; also owner of Area Four in Cambridge; named one of “America’s Best New Chefs 2000” by Food and Wine magazine
Jim Lacrosse ’57—Chairman and president, National Wine & Spirits Inc.
Candace Nelson ’96—Founder, Sprinkles
Ariel Rubissow Okamoto ’81—Owner and vinter with her husband of Rubissow Wines, a second-generation, single vineyard producers of limited-edition artisan red wines
Doug Polaner ’86—Founder (with wife Tina Fischer), Polaner Selections, Mount Kisco-based wine importer and distributor in the fine wine wholesale market
Steven Tanzer ’71—Editor and publisher of the bimonthly International Wine Cellar, read by wine professionals and others in all 50 states and 34 countries
Journalism, Media, Publishing, Public Relations
Robert Allbritton ’92—Publisher of Politico; chairman and CEO of Allbritton Communications, based in Washington, D.C.
Doug Berman ’84—Peabody Award-winning producer who launched NPR’s hit comedy show, Car Talk; currently CEO of Dewey Cheatham & Howe
William Blakemore ’65—Correspondent and journalist with ABC for more than 35 years, known for spearheading the network’s coverage of global warming
David Brancaccio ’82—Special correspondent for Marketplace
Ethan Bronner ’76—Legal affairs reporter, national desk, The New York Times; previously Times Jerusalem bureau chief, deputy foreign editor and assistant editorial page editor, helped edit a series of articles on al Qaeda that were awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize
Marysol Castro ’96—CBS News; former weather anchor
Dorothy Crenshaw ’77—CEO and creative director, Crenshaw Communications
Alex Crippen ’82—Executive producer, CNBC Business News
Pamela Dorman ’79—Vice president and publisher, Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Jane Eisner ’77—Editor of The Jewish Daily Forward and the first woman to hold the position; previously held numerous news positions at the Philadelphia Inquirer
Cassi Feldman ’96—Associate producer, 60 Minutes
Smokey Fontaine ’93—Chief content officer, Interactive One, the largest online African American network; author of EARL: The Autobiography of DMX
Pauline Frommer ’88—Editor of Budget Travel Online and an award-winning writer
Jordan Goldman ’04—Founder and CEO of Unigo, an online students’ guide to colleges
Christopher Graves ’81—President and CEO, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide; one of the founders of Wall Street Journal television
Alberto Ibargüen ’66—President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (journalism); former publisher of the Miami Herald and of El Nuevo Herald
Lisa Kaufman ’80—Vice president and marketing director, Public Affairs Books
Robert King ’84—Editor-in-chief, ESPN.com
Julie Lasky ’82—Editor, Design Observer and Change Observer
Susan Lehman ’81—Publisher and editor-in-chief, Twelve
Ariel Levy ’96—Staff writer, The New Yorker; author (Female Chauvinist Pigs)
Caroline Little ’81—CEO, Newspaper Association of America
Emilie Marcus ’82—CEO, Cell Press
Paul Mason ’77—President and CEO, Link TV; co-founder of Mezclado, an independent television production company; former senior vice president, ABC Inc.
Alan Miller ’76—Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, formerly with the Los Angeles Times; now founder of the News Literacy Project
Nicole Phelps ’94—Executive editor at Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines; an expert on fashion trends
Randall Pinkston ’72—Emmy award-winning correspondent, CBS News
Barbara Roessner ’75—Executive editor, Hearst Connecticut Newspapers
Randy Siegel ’83—President of local digital strategy, Advance Publications
Harold Sogard ’74—Chairman, Publicis & Hal Riney, advertising agency
C. Sumner (Chuck) Stone ’48—Former Professor of journalism at University of North Carolina; trailblazing African American journalist
Johnny Temple ’88—Publisher, Akashic Books
Laura Walker ’79—President and CEO, WNYC Radio
Jonathan Weber ’82—West coast bureau chief, Reuters; former editor-in-chief, The Bay Citizen
Susan Weinberg ’80—Publisher, Public Affairs Books
John Yang ’80—Correspondent, NBC
Angela Yee ’97—Radio personality on The Breakfast Club, Power 105.1, New York City
Matvei Yankelevich ’95—Editor, Ugly Duckling Presse
Strauss Zelnick ’79—CEO, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.; founder and president of ZelnickMedia
Law
Neal Brody ’80—Vice president and technical director of ENTRIX, Inc.; specialist in environmental cases
Denise Casper ’90—U.S. District Court federal judge, Massachusetts
Fritz Faerber ’65—Principal at Faerber & Anderson, renowned as an exceptional trial lawyer
Stephen Ferruolo ’71—Dean, University of San Diego School of Law
Evan Flaschen ’79—Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP
Karen Freedman ’75—Founder and executive director, Lawyers for Children, Inc., a not-for-profit legal corporation providing free legal and social work services for children
Seth Gelblum ’75—Partner at the law firm of Loeb & Loeb, chair of the theater practice group
Russell ("Rusty") Hardin ’64—Trial attorney and founding partner of Hardin and Associates; founded Texas People Against Crime (TPAC), dedicated to addressing criminal justice issues from the perspective of crime victims and law enforcement
Monica Noether ’74—Executive vice president and head of the litigation and applied economics platform at CRA International, a management consulting firm
Steven Pfeiffer ’69—Chair of the executive committee at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP (Washington, D.C. office); board member of the Africa-America Institute
Sara Rosenbaum ’73—Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University Law School
Brian Schorr ’79—Executive vice president and chief legal officer, Trian Fund Management, L.P.
Amy Schulman ’82—Executive vice president and general counsel for Pfizer; previously at DLA Piper, where she focused on complex class action litigation for numerous Fortune 500 clients
Hon. Anthony Scirica ’62—Chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Philadelphia) and also chair of the executive committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States
Theodore Shaw ’76—Professor of professional practice at Columbia Law School; one of the nation’s leading civil rights litigators and former director-general counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
David Skaggs ’64—Senior strategic advisor and independent consultant, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP; former executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education
Paul Singarella ’80—Partner in the Orange County office of Latham & Watkins, chair of its Environment, Land and Resources Department
Hon. Stephen Trott ’62—Senior judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit and one of the original Highwaymen singing group
Susan Webster ’77—Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, a member of the firm’s corporate law department
Melissa Woods ‘94—Of counsel at Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C.; part of the labor and employment law practice groups
Medicine
Peter Adamson ’80, MD—Chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
George Allen ’63, MD—The William F. Meacham Professor and chair of the department of neurology at Vanderbilt University
Herbert Benson ’57, MD—Professor, Harvard Medical School; founding president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute; author of The Relaxation Response
Charles Cleeland ’60—Director, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
William Dietz ’66, MD—Director, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Centers For Disease Control and Prevention; expert on obesity
Joseph Fins ’82, MD—Chief of the division of medical ethics, Weill Medical College, Cornell University; director of medical ethics, New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center
Geoffrey Ginsburg ’78, MD—Founding director of the Center for Genomic Medicine in the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy; also professor of medicine and of pathology at Duke University Medical center
N. Thorne Griscom ’52, MD—Physician at Children’s Hospital Medical Center; leader in the field of diagnostic radiology in infants and children
Dennis Gross ’80, MD—Physician in private practice; expert in cosmetic dermatology and the anti-aging process
Laman Gray Jr. ’63, MD—Leader in the fields of cardiovascular surgery and development of artificial hearts and circulatory support systems; implanted the world’s first self-contained artificial heart, the AbioCor
Jay Levy ’60, MD—Pioneering AIDS researcher and educator; professor, department of medicine, University of California, San Francisco; head of the Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research at UCSF
Michelle Anderson Lyn ’84, MD—Chief of child protection in the department of emergency medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital
Shonni Silverberg ’76, MD—Endocrinologist and a professor of medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, director of the Post-doctoral Training Program in endocrinology and metabolism
Joseph Wright ’79, MD—Senior vice president. Children’s National Medical Center, in Washington, D.C.; professor of pediatrics, emergency medicine, and health policy at the George Washington University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Music
Amazing Baby (Will Roan, Simon O’Connor ’05)—Brooklyn-based glam-influenced rock-band
Bear Hands (Dylan Rau ’07, Ted Feldman ’09, Val Loper, TJ Orsher)—Indie rock experimental band
Bottle Up and Go (Keenan Mitchell ’08, Fareed Sajan ’09)—Brooklyn-based pop soul band
Boy Crisis (Alex Kestner ’06, Tal Rosen ’06, Lee Pender ’07, Owen Roberts ’07)—Brooklyn-based band
Taylor Ho Bynum ’98—Jazz cornetist and co-partner in Firehouse 12 Records
Das Racist (Victor Vasquez ’06, Himanshu Suri ’07, Ashok Kondabolu)—Alternative hip-hop group
Chris Dingman ’02—Vibraphoinst
James Fei ’99—Composer
Fort Lean (Jake Aron ’08, Zach Fried ’08, Sam Ubl ’08, Keenan Mitchell ’09, Will Runge ’09)—Indie band
Kiff Gallagher ’91—Co-executive director of the Music National Service Initiative, a program that hires musicians to teach music in schools and after-school programs
Bobbito Garcia ’88—Internationally known DJ; co-founder of Bounce Magazine; co-director (with Kevin Couliau) of the documentary Doin’ It In The Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC
Mary Halvorson ’02—Jazz guitarist and composer with several recordings
Jay Hoggard ’76—Jazz musician, premiere vibraphonist, and Wesleyan professor
Chris Jonas ’99—Director of programs and operations, Warehouse 21
Steve Lehman ’00—Alto and soprano jazz saxophonist; composer
MGMT (Ben Goldwasser ’05, Andrew VanWyngarden ’05, Will Berman ’04)—Brooklyn-based pop music duo with acclaimed recording, Oracular Spectacular
Hafez Modirzadeh PhD ’92—Saxophonist
Amanda Palmer ’98—Singer and songwriter; former lead singer of Dresden Dolls
Chris Pureka ’01—Singer and songwriter
Steve Roslonek ’93—Award-winning children’s songwriter and performer (SteveSongs), with his own TV show
Santigold (Santi White ’97)—Brooklyn-based rapper/singer/songwriter
Tyshawn Sorey MA ’11—Jazz drummer
Francis Farewell Starlite ’06—Performer and songwriter who leads the band Francis and the Lights
Tierney Sutton ’86—Acclaimed jazz singer with several recordings
Dar Williams ’89—Award-winning singer and songwriter with several albums
Public Service
Jennifer Alexander ’88—Middletown activist and organizer, entrepreneur and supporter; founder and executive director of the nonprofit Kidcity Children’s Museum
Andrea Barthwell ’76—President, Encounter Medical Group, P.C., (“EMGlobal”); former deputy director at the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy
Michael Bennet ’87—U.S. senator from Colorado; previously superintendent of schools in Denver
Lael Brainard ’83—Undersecretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department; former director, Poverty and Global and Economy at The Brookings Institution
Majora Carter ’88—President of The Majora Carter Group, an environmental consulting company; founder and former executive director, Sustainable South Bronx; recipient of MacArthur grant; founder of River Heroes, offering job training
Ka-keung Ceajer Chan ’79—Hong Kong’s secretary for financial services and the treasury; dean, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School
Sasha Chanoff ’94—Founder and executive director, RefugePoint, which protects forgotten refugees
Kathleen Clyde ’01—Ohio state representative, 68th district
Diana Farrell ’87—Director, McKinsey Center for Government, McKinsey & Company; former deputy director, National Economic Council at the White House
Graeme Freeman ’77—Executive director, The Freeman Foundation
Brian Frosh ’68—Maryland state senator, 16th district
Leslie Gabel-Brett ’76—Director of education and public affairs, Lambda Legal; previously executive director of Connecticut Permanent Commission on the Status of Women
John Hickenlooper Jr. ’74—Governor of Colorado; formerly mayor of Denver
The Hon. Robert Hunter ’62—Senior adviser, Rand Company; former United States ambassador to NATO
David Jones ’70—President and CEO, Community Service Society of New York
Yoriko Kishimoto ’77—Former city council member and former mayor of Palo Alto, California
Daphne Kwok ’84—Executive director, Asians and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California; chair, President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Matt Lesser ’10—Connecticut state representative, 100th district
Eli “Ted” Lilly ’66—Past president of Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, on the board of Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Mora McLean ’77—Former president and CEO, Africa-America Institute
Kennedy Odede ’12—Co-founder, president, and CEO, Shining Hope for Communities, Kenya
Jessica Posner ’09—Co-founder and COO, Shining Hope for Communities, Kenya
Tucker Reed ’02—President, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
Ellen Remmer ’75—President and CEO, The Philanthropic Initiative, Inc; expert on the subjects of family philanthropy, strategic giving, and women as donors
John Rhea ’87—Chairman, New York City Housing Authority
Muzzy Rosenblatt ’87—Executive director, Bowery Residents Committee; former chief of staff for New York City’s Homeless Services
Larry Selzer ’82—President and CEO, The Conservation Fund
Peter Shumlin ’79—Governor of Vermont
Jonathan Spector ’78—President and CEO, The Conference Board
Jacob Walles ’79—U.S. ambassador-designate to Republic of Tunisia
Kate Whitman ’88—Former communications director of news media for the House Republican Policy committee; a lobbyist and advocate
Daniel Wolf ’79—Massachusetts state senator, the Cape and Islands district
Science
Taber Allison ’74—Director of research and evaluation, American Wind Wildlife Institute
Taft Armandroff ’82—Director, W. M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii (world’s largest observatory)
Joshua Boger ’73—Executive chairman, Alkeus Pharmaceuticals; founder and retired chairman, president and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Linda Brinen ’88—Director of structural biology, Sandler Center for Basic Research in Parasitic Diseases, University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Neil J. Clendeninn ’71—Board member at NCI/NIH; former corporate vice president; head of clinical affairs at Agouron Pharmaceuticals Inc.
George DuPaul ’79—Professor at Lehigh University and an internationally recognized expert on Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder
Dr. Geoffrey M. Duyk ’80—Partner, TPG Growth; former president of research and development at Exelixis, Inc.
Michael Greenberg ’76—Chair of the department of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and holder of the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professorship; directs the F. M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Children’s Hospital Boston
Gerald Holton ’41—Retired physics professor at Harvard University and world’s leading authority on the life of Albert Einstein
Laurence Kedes ’59, MD—William M. Keck Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California
Jerry Melillo ’65—Co-director, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, at Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Ellen Prager ’84—Marine and earth scientist; president, Earth2Ocean, Inc.; author (Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime)
David Schenkein ’79—CEO, Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc.
H. Eugene Stanley ’62—Award-winning physicist and University Professor at Boston University; director, Center for Polymer Studies at BU
Peter Tontonoz ’89—Associate professor/physician/scientist at the School of Medicine at the University of California/Los Angeles
Nicholas Turro ’60—Award-winning chemistry professor, Columbia University
Sports
Bill Belichick ’75—Head coach, New England Patriots, winner of three Super Bowls
Ambrose Burfoot ’68—First collegian to win the Boston Marathon; executive editor, Runner’s World Magazine
Larry DeGaris ’86—Associate professor of sports marketing, University of Indianapolis
Jeff Galloway ’67—Olympic runner and author of Galloway’s Book on Running
Jennifer Heppel ’90—Associate commissioner at the Big Ten Conference
Jed Hoyer ’96—Executive vice president and general manager, Chicago Cubs
Kathryn Keeler ’78—Gold medalist in rowing at ’84 Olympics; Olympics coach in ’96
Ted Li ’68—One of the world’s leading experts on fencing weapons, gear, and scoring equipment; armorer to the NCAA
Eric Mangini ’94—Sports analyst, ESPN; former head coach, Cleveland Browns
Dennis Robinson ’79— CEO, The Grand Prix of America
Bill Rodgers ’70—Renowned runner, winner of four New York and four Boston marathons
Technology
Steve Chambers ’86—Chief marketing officer and executive vice president, Nuance Communications
Jennifer Chayes ’79—Managing director, Microsoft Research New York City and Microsoft Research New England
Joe Choti ’82—Chief technology officer and senior vice president, Major League Baseball Advanced technology
Marcelo Halpern ’85—Nationally recognized speaker and author on legal and technology issues
Amir Hasson ’98—Chief development officer (USA), Oxigen, India's largest service delivery and payment platform; founder, United Villages, low-cost Internet access for remote villages in developing nations
Gregory LoPiccolo ’83—Vice president of product development, Harmonix (in the music industry)
Rishad Premji ’99—Chief strategy officer, IT Business, Wipro Technologies
Hong Qu ’99—Product and UX lead at Upworthy; adjunct professor, CUNY School of Journalism
Giles Richter ’87—Expert on Japan’s mobile Internet and wireless industry
Jonathan Schwartz ’87—CEO, CareZone; former CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
James Shepherd Jr. ’72—Expert on e-business planning
Peter Watkins ’77—Former CEO, Webroot Software
Theater and Dance
Natalia Alonso ’00—Dancer (Ballet Hispanico, Complexions)
Suzanne Appel ’02—Managing director, The Cutting Ball Theater, San Francisco
Ken Barnett ’94—Actor
Joshua Borenstein ’97—Managing director, Long Wharf Theater
David Brick '91, Andrew Simonet '92, and Amy Smith '92—Founders of Headlong Dance Theater
Jeremy Dobrish ’90—Theater director, playwright, teacher; co-founder, Midtown Direct Rep, New Jersey-based theater company
Kirsten Greenidge ’96—Playwright (Bossa Nova, Milk Like Sugar, The Luck of the Irish)
Willy Holtzman ’74—Playwright (Hearts, Something You Did, The Morini Strad) and screenwriter (Edge of America)
Thomas Kail ’99—Theater director (In the Heights, Broke-ology, Lombardi)
Kate MacCluggage ’04—Actress
Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02—Creator, Tony Award-winning composer, actor (In the Heights, Bring It On, House, Modern Family)
Johanna Pfaelzer ’90—Artistic director, New York Stage and Film
Michael Rau ’05—Artistic director and co-founder of Wolf 359 theater company; director specializing in new plays, re-imagined classics, and opera
Jeffrey Richards ’69—Theater producer (Spring Awakening, August: Osage County, Hair, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess)
Howard Shalwitz ’74—Artistic director, Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Bill Sherman ’02—Tony and Grammy Award-winning orchestrator, arranger, musician (In the Heights)
Stephen Trask ’89—Composer and lyricist of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch; also, film composer (In Good Company, Dreamgirls, The Savages)
Christopher Wink ’83—Founder of the Blue Man Group and Blue Man Creativity Center3Frank Wood ’84—Tony Award-winning actor
Visual Arts, Museums
Desiree Alvarez ’85—New York City-based artist who prints on fabric
Ben Boothby ’97—Painter
Abby Carter ’83—Creative director of Samantha Premium Juice Co., illustrated numerous books for children
Rutherford Chang ’02—Artist
Jem Cohen ’84—New York-based filmmaker/media artist whose works are built from his ongoing collection of street footage, portraits, and sound
Carl Crossman ’62—Recognized expert and lecturer in the field of Chinese art and ceramics; appeared for eight seasons as a guest appraiser on the PBS series Antiques Roadshow
Jeffrey Deitch ’74—Director, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Ellen Driscoll ’74—Professor of sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design; work in major public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of Art
Vincent Armand Fecteau ’91—San Francisco–based artist known for transforming ordinary materials, such as foamcore, seashells, string, rubber bands, paper clips, walnut shells, and popsicle sticks, into handcrafted sculptures
Carl Goodman ’88—Executive director, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York
Lyle Ashton Harris ’88—Photographer and artist on the faculty at NYU Steinhardt; work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Rachel Harrison ’89—New York-based sculptor whose work has shown widely in North America and Europe
Morrison Heckscher ’62—Chairman of the American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and author
Dana Hoey ’89—Photographer who takes pictures of herself and others in intimate, quotidian settings; work in public collections, including the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Jonathan Horowitz ’87—Multimedia artist working in video, sculpture, sound installation, and photography
Michael Joo ’88—Artist whose work explores the boundaries between art and science, recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship
Bruce Eric Kaplan ’87—New Yorker cartoonist
Brooks Kraft ’87—Nationally recognized photojournalist who specializes in portrait photography and photojournalism in Washington, D.C., including pictures of U.S. presidents and the White House
Liz Magic Laser ’03—New-York City-based photographer and video artist; adjunct professor of art history at the School of Visual Art
Glenn Ligon ’82—Painter and printmaker known for his works which explore questions of race, sexuality, history, representation, and language
Michael Lobel ’90—Author and art historian (Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art, James Rosenquist)
Anne Arden McDonald ’88—Photographer and sculptor; best known for self-portraits, building installations in the landscape or in abandoned interiors, included in her book Installations and Self Portraits
Anissa Mack ’92—Conceptual artist, “Pies for a Passerby” held in New York City, outside the Brooklyn Public library in 2002
Melissa R. Marks ’87—Artist for her drawings, paintings, and installations, including a whimsical painting series, The Adventures of Volitia
Robert L. Marshall ’82—Writer and artist who draws and paints on reflective surfaces such as mirrors and Mylar
K. L. McKenna ’79—Landscape painter and owner of Coffey Gallery, Inc., noted for her signature, color, light and spirit technique
Thomas McKnight ’63—Leading figure in the world of fine art, whose paintings, limited edition serigraphs, and aquatints have found a wide audience in the United States, Europe and Japan
Sasha Rudensky ’01—Photographer and visiting professor of art at Wesleyan
Christopher Russell ’83—Artist known for his architectural ceramics; his custom tile projects have been featured in the New York Times, New York Newsday, Food & Wine, and Tile and Stone
Wade Saunders ’71—Prolific modernist sculptor who draws upon a variety of materials
Alan Shestack ’60—Former deputy director of the National Gallery of Art
Franklin Sirmans ’91—Department head and curator of contemporary art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Keith Sklar ’80—Los Angeles-based painter and large-scale muralist
Jill Snyder ’79—Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Karin Stack ’88—Artist noted for her drawings; also a printmaker and graphic designer
Mark Steinmetz ’82—Photographer whose books include Tuscan Trees and South Central; work is part of the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art; recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship
Melissa Stern ’80—New York City-based artist, who has shown her ceramic sculpture and drawings all over the United States and in Amsterdam
Philip Trager ’56—Photographer noted for his dance portraits, as well as for his evocative photography of place and of architecture; books include Villas of Palladio, Dancers, Changing Paris: A Tour Along the Seine, and Faces
Nancy Troy ’74—Professor of art history, University of Southern California; expert on 20th-century design
Ben Weiner ’03—New York City artist who works in oil, creating hyper-realistic paintings and finding the extraordinary in everyday objects
Marion Wilson ’83—Installation artist
Andrew Witkin ’00—Boston-based conceptual artist and director of the Barbara Krakow Gallery; winner of Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art’s Foster Prize
Victoria Wyeth MA ’05—Museum curator, Brandywine Museum, which showcases three generations of Wyeth paintings, as well as American illustration, still life, and landscape painting
Carrie Yamaoka ’79—New York City-based artist who makes reflective and optically intriguing paintings of mylar encapsulated in resin
Michael Yamashita ’71—Award-winning photographer who has worked for National Geographic for more than two decades; publications include Marco Polo: A Photographer’s Journey, and Zheng He: Tracing the Epic Voyages of China’s Greatest Explorer
Jody Zellen ’83—Los Angeles-based artist who works in many media simultaneously, making photographs, installations, net art, and public art, as well as artists’ books that explore the subject of the urban environment
Brenda Zlamany ’81—Portrait, still life, and landscape painter; serves as master etching printer at Erie Lackawana Editions
Writing
Steve Almond ’88—Writer (Candyfreak, Not That You Asked, God Bless America)
Rick Barot ’92—Poet (The Darker Fall, Want)
Rachel Basch ’80—Novelist (Degrees of Love, The Passion of Reverend Nash)
Ruth Behar ’77—Writer (An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba), filmmaker, professor of anthropology, University of Michigan; recipient of MacArthur grant
Suzanne Berne ’82—Novelist (A Crime in the Neighborhood, The Ghost at the Table); winner of the Orange Prize
Peter Blauner ’82—Mystery writer (The Last Good Day, The Intruder, Slipping Into Darkness); television writer (Law and Order: SVU)
Amy Bloom ’75—Author (Love Invents Us, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, Away); creator and writer of television show State of Mind
Jonathan Bloom ’99—Author (American Wasteland); food waste expert
Jennifer Finney Boylan ’80—Author (She’s Not There, I’m Looking Through You, Stuck in the Middle with You)
Andrew Bridge ’84—Author (Hope’s Boy)
Dominique Browning ’77—Author and editor (Slow Love, Paths of Desire)
Alexander Chee ’89—Novelist (Edinburgh)
Gabriel Cohen ’82—Writer (Red Hook, The Graving Dock, Storms Can’t Hurt the Sky)
Robin Cook ’62, MD—Medical mystery writer (Chromosome 6,Coma, Shock, Crisis, and other best sellers)
Beverly Donofrio ’78 (Riding in Cars with Boys, Looking for Mary)
Paul Dickson ’61—Writer (Sputnik, Slang, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick)
Ellen Forney ’89—Author and cartoonist (Monkey Food, I Love Led Zeppelin, Marbles)
David Garrow ’75—Author of Bearing the Cross, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
Elizabeth Graver ’86—Novelist (The Honey Thief, Awake)
Daniel Handler ’92—Fiction writer (under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket), A Series of Unfortunate Events children’s book series; also Adverbs and Why We Broke Up
Kaylie Jones ’81—Author (A Solder’s Daughter Never Cries, Lies My Mother Never Told Me)
Sebastian Junger ’84—Author and journalist (The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War) and documentary filmmaker (Restrepo)
James Kaplan ’73—Author (Two Guys from Verona, Dean and Me, Frank: The Voice)
Alex Kotlowitz ’77—Journalist, activist, author (There Are No Children Here, The Other Side of the River) and documentary producer (The Interrupters)
Seth Lerer ’76—Author (Inventing English, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter); winner of National Book Critics Circle Award
Andrew Meier ’85—Author (Black Earth, The Lost Spy)
Blake Nelson ’84—Young adult novelist (Girl, Paranoid Park, Dream School)
Eric Oliver ’88—Author (Fat Politics)
Alix Olson ’97—Activist folk poet
Michael Palmer ’64, MD—Medical mystery writer (Flashback, Extreme Measures, Natural Causes, The Fifth Vial, and other best sellers)
Carolyn Parkhurst Rosser ’92—Novelist (The Dogs of Babel, Lost and Found, The Nobodies Album)
Christina Pugh ’88—Poet (Rotary, Restoration, Grains of the Voice)
Mary Roach ’81—Author (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook, Bonk, Packing for Mars)
Carlo Rotella ’86—Author (Good with Their Hands, Cut Time)
Juliet Schor ’75—Author (Born to Buy, The Overspent American, Plentitude)
Sara Shandler ’02—Author (Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self)
Jonathan Thirkield ’95—Poet (The Waker’s Corridor)
Wells Tower ’96—Fiction writer and journalist (Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned)
Ayelet Waldman ’86—Author (Mommy Track Mysteries, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Bad Mother, Red Hook Road)
Sam Wasson ’03—Author (A Splurch to the Kisser: The Films of Blake Edwards; Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's and the Dawn of the Modern Woman; Paul on Mazursky)
Robert Wilder ’88—Nonfiction writer, journalist (Daddy Needs a Drink, Tales from the Teachers Lounge)
Paul Yoon ’02—Fiction writer (Once the Shore)
Simone Zelitch ’84—Novelist (Moses in Sinai, Louisa)
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