21 Notable alumni of
Bard College at Simon's Rock
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Bard College at Simon's Rock is 1696th in the world, 602nd in North America, and 567th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 21 notable alumni from Bard College at Simon's Rock sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ronan Farrow
- Enrolled in Bard College at Simon's Rock
- Studied in 1999
- Occupations
- lawyerjuristhuman rights activistjournalistdocumentarian
- Biography
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Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow is an American journalist. The son of actress Mia Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen, he is known for his investigative reporting on allegations of sexual abuse against film producer Harvey Weinstein, which was published in The New Yorker magazine. The magazine won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for this reporting, sharing the award with The New York Times. Farrow has worked for UNICEF and as a government advisor.
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Tom Ford
- Occupations
- film directorfashion designerscreenwriterfilm producer
- Biography
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Thomas Carlyle Ford is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched his eponymous luxury brand in 2005, having previously served as the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Ford wrote and directed the films A Single Man (2009) and Nocturnal Animals (2016). From 2019 to 2022 he served as Chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
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John McWhorter
- Occupations
- creolistwriterprofessor
- Biography
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John Hamilton McWhorter V is an American linguist with a specialty in creole languages, sociolects, and Black English. He is currently an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University, where he also teaches American studies and music history. He has authored a number of books on race relations and African-American culture, acting as political commentator especially in his New York Times newsletter.
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Alison Bechdel
- Occupations
- novelistcartoonistcomics artist
- Biography
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Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home, which was subsequently adapted as a musical that won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. In 2012, she released her second graphic memoir Are You My Mother? She was a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She is also known for originating the Bechdel test.
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Tokata Iron Eyes
- Occupations
- environmentalist
- Biography
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Tokata Iron Eyes is a Native American activist and member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Iron Eyes was a youth leader of "ReZpect our Water", a campaign against the proposed route of the Dakota Access Pipeline, and served on the board of a sustainable energy group called Indigenized Energy. Iron Eyes is also a singer and songwriter.
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Ben Goertzel
- Occupations
- bioinformaticiancomputer scientistmathematicianartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Ben Goertzel is a computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, and businessman. He helped popularize the term 'artificial general intelligence'.
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Curse
- Occupations
- rappermusician
- Biography
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Michael Sebastian Kurth, better known as Curse, is a German rapper.
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Mike Doughty
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterguitariststreet artistsingerengineer
- Biography
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Michael Ross Doughty is an American singer-songwriter and author. He founded the band Soul Coughing in 1992, and as of The Heart Watches While the Brain Burns (2016), has released 18 studio albums, live albums, and EPs, all since 2000.
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Daisy Eagan
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Daisy Eagan is an American actress.
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Eli Pariser
- Occupations
- peace activistbusinesspersonwriterjournalistopinion journalist
- Biography
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Eli Pariser is an author, activist, and entrepreneur. He has stated that his focus is "how to make technology and media serve democracy". He became executive director of MoveOn.org in 2004, where he helped pioneer the practice of online citizen engagement. He is the co-founder of Upworthy, a website for meaningful viral content, and Avaaz, a global citizen's organization. His bestselling book, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, introduced the term “filter bubble” to the lexicon. He is currently an Omidyar Fellow at New America and co-directs the Civic Signals project at the National Conference on Citizenship.
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Ada Palmer
- Occupations
- novelistscience fiction writerhistorianwriter
- Biography
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Ada Palmer is an American historian and writer and winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her first novel, Too Like the Lightning, was published in May 2016. The work has been well received by critics and was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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Dosh
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- percussionistmusicianrecord producer
- Biography
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Martin Chavez Dosh, better known mononymously as Dosh, is a multi-instrumentalist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Veronica Chambers
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Veronica Chambers is an Afro-Latina author, teacher, and magazine executive. Chambers has been an editor and writer for New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Premiere, Esquire, Parade and O, The Oprah Magazine.
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Annie Finch
- Occupations
- translatorwriterpoetlibrettistlinguist
- Biography
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Annie Finch is an American poet, critic, editor, translator, playwright, and performer and the editor of the first major anthology of literature about abortion. Her poetry is known for its often incantatory use of rhythm, meter, and poetic form and for its themes of feminism, witchcraft, goddesses, and earth-based spirituality. Her books include The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells, Spells: New and Selected Poems, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self, A Poet's Craft, Calendars, and Among the Goddesses.
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Meg Hutchinson
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Meg Hutchinson is an American folk singer-songwriter. Originally from rural westernmost Massachusetts, Hutchinson is now based in the Boston area. Influences include poet Mary Oliver, songwriter Shawn Colvin, and mood maker David Gray. She has won numerous songwriting awards in the US, Ireland and UK, including recognition from John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Billboard Song Contest and prestigious competitions at Merlefest, NewSong, Kerrville, Falcon Ridge, Telluride Bluegrass and Rocky Mountain Folks festivals.
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Henry Alford
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Henry Alford is a humorist and journalist who has written for The New Yorker magazine for more than two decades. He was previously a columnist for The New York Times and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. He has written six books, including How to Live and Big Kiss, an account of his attempts to become a working actor, which won a Thurber Prize.
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Mark Clifford
- Occupations
- DJ producermusicianguitarist
- Biography
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Mark Clifford is a British musician and producer known primarily for his involvement with his band Seefeel. He has been involved in a number of solo and collaborative projects which have resulted in a wide range of material released on many different labels including Warp Records, Rephlex Records, Bella Union, Editions Mego and his own Polyfusia label.
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Abby Franquemont
- Occupations
- lecturerwriterblogger
- Biography
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Abigail M. Franquemont is an American textile crafts writer, lecturer and educator, based in Cusco, Peru. She spent her early childhood among the Quechua people of Chinchero, Peru, where "women spun to eat and pay for the home they lived in." As a revivalist of the ancient art of hand spinning with the spindle, she published her book, Respect the Spindle, in 2009.
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Nat Gertler
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Enrolled in Bard College at Simon's Rock
- Studied in 1980-1983
- Occupations
- writereditorpublisher
- Biography
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Nat Gertler is an American writer known for his comic books and his books about comics, including six on Charles Schulz's Peanuts. Gertler is the publisher of About Comics, and founded an annual cartoonists' challenge, 24 Hour Comics Day. He has been nominated for three Eisner Awards and won one.
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Jah Levi
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Jah Levi is a music producer and multi-instrumentalist songwriter, bandleader, luthier and archivist of folk and world music.
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Kazys Varnelis
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Kazys Varnelis is an American historian and theorist of architecture, specialising in network culture. He is Director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a founding member of conceptual architecture practice AUDC.
