100 Notable alumni of
Bard College
Bard College is 461st in the world, 182nd in North America, and 169th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Bard College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jonah Hill
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- television actorwriterfilm actorfilm producerscreenwriter
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Jonah Hill is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is known for his comedic roles in films including Superbad (2007), Knocked Up (2007), 21 Jump Street (2012), This Is the End (2013), and 22 Jump Street (2014). For his performances in Moneyball (2011) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Chevy Chase
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- comediantelevision actorsingeractorvoice actor
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Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, actor and writer. He became a key cast member in the first season of Saturday Night Live (SNL), where his recurring Weekend Update segment became a staple of the show. As both a performer and a writer, he earned three Primetime Emmy Awards out of five nominations and two Golden Globe Award nominations.
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Peter Sarsgaard
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- actorfilm actorvoice actorstage actor
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John Peter Sarsgaard is an American actor. His first feature role was in Dead Man Walking in 1995. He then appeared in the 1998 independent films Another Day in Paradise and Desert Blue. That same year, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), playing Raoul, the ill-fated son of Athos. Sarsgaard later achieved critical recognition when he was cast in Boys Don't Cry (1999) as John Lotter. He landed his first leading role in the 2001 film The Center of the World.
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Ronan Farrow
- Enrolled in Bard College
- Studied in 1999
- In 2004 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in philosophy
- Occupations
- documentarianjournalistjuristhuman rights activistlawyer
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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 of 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
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- film directorfilm producerscreenwriterfashion designer
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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). He currently serves as the chairman of the Board of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
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Blythe Danner
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- television actorenvironmentalistvoice actorfilm actorstage actor
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Blythe Katherine Danner is an American actress. Accolades she has received include two Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Izzy Huffstodt on Huff (2004–2006), and a Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in Butterflies Are Free on Broadway (1969–1972). Danner was twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for portraying Marilyn Truman on Will & Grace (2001–06; 2018–20), and the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her roles in We Were the Mulvaneys (2002) and Back When We Were Grownups (2004). For the latter, she also received a Golden Globe Award nomination.
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Adam Yauch
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- singer-songwriterfilm directorsingerrecord producerrapper
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Adam Nathaniel Yauch, better known under the stage name MCA, was an American rapper, bass player, filmmaker and a founding member of the hip hop group Beastie Boys. Besides his musical work, he also directed many of the band's music videos and did much of their promotional photography, often using the pseudonym Nathaniel Hörnblowér for such work.
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Larry Hagman
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- voice actorfilm directorwriterfilm producerdub actor
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Larry Martin Hagman was an American film and television actor, director, and producer, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1978–1991 primetime television soap opera Dallas, and the befuddled astronaut Major Anthony Nelson in the 1965–1970 sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. Hagman had supporting roles in numerous films, including Fail-Safe, Harry and Tonto, S.O.B., Nixon, and Primary Colors. His television appearances also included guest roles on dozens of shows spanning from the late 1950s until his death, and a reprise of his signature role on the 2012 revival of Dallas. Hagman also worked as a television producer and director. He was the son of actress Mary Martin. Hagman underwent a life-saving liver transplant in 1995. He died on November 23, 2012, from complications of acute myeloid leukemia.
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Adrian Grenier
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- composerfilm producersingerfilm actormusician
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Adrian Sean Grenier is an American actor, producer, director and musician. He is best known for his portrayal of Vincent Chase in the television series Entourage (2004–2011). He has appeared in films such as Drive Me Crazy (1999), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Trash Fire (2016) and Marauders (2016). In 2021, he acted in the Netflix series Clickbait.
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Gaby Hoffmann
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- actorfilm actortelevision actorstage actor
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Gabrielle Mary Antonia Hoffmann is an American actress. She initially found success as a child actress, appearing in Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, and Sleepless in Seattle, and then later as a teenager with Now and Then, Volcano, All I Wanna Do, and 200 Cigarettes.
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Lola Glaudini
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- television actorfilm actoractor
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Lola Glaudini is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Elle Greenaway on CBS's Criminal Minds and for her role as Deborah Ciccerone-Waldrup on HBO's The Sopranos.
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Donald Fagen
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- singer-songwriterpianistrecording artistsingerrecord producer
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Donald Jay Fagen is an American musician best known as the co-founder, lead singer, co-songwriter, and keyboardist of the band Steely Dan, formed in the early 1970s with musical partner Walter Becker. In addition to his work with Steely Dan, Fagen has released four solo albums. He began his solo career in 1982 with the album The Nightfly, which was nominated for seven Grammy Awards. In 2001, Fagen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Steely Dan. Following Becker's death in 2017, Fagen has continued to tour as the only original member of Steely Dan.
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Tracy Nelson
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- television actorstage actorfilm actor
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Tracy Kristine Nelson is an American actress. From a long line of entertainers, she is the daughter of musician Ricky Nelson and actress and painter Kristin Nelson.
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Lola Kirke
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- actorfilm actortelevision actorstage actor
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Lola Clementine Kirke is a British-American actress and singer-songwriter. She starred in the 2015 film Mistress America and the Amazon Studios television series Mozart in the Jungle. She appeared in Gone Girl (2014), Gemini (2017), and Lost Girls (2020) among other films. Recent work includes HBO's Winning Time (2022) and upcoming Showtime limited series Three Women.
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Jordan Bridges
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- television actorfilm actoractor
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Jordan Bridges is an American actor, best known as Frankie Rizzoli on Rizzoli & Isles (2010–2016).
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Walter Becker
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- jazz guitaristcomposerrecord producerguitaristsongwriter
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Walter Carl Becker was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was the co-founder, guitarist, bassist, and co-songwriter of the jazz rock band Steely Dan.
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Ali Wentworth
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- film actorstage actorfilm produceractortelevision actor
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Ali Wentworth is an American actress, comedian, author, and producer.
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Todd Haynes
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- film produceractorscreenwritertelevision directorfilm director
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Todd Haynes is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films span four decades with themes examining the personalities of well-known musicians, dysfunctional and dystopian societies, and blurred gender roles.
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Adam Conover
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- podcastercomedianvoice actorWikipediantelevision presenter
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Adam Conover is an American comedian, writer, voice actor, television host, and labor organizer. He created and hosted the half-hour truTV show Adam Ruins Everything, based on the CollegeHumor series of the same name. He was also the host of the American version of The Crystal Maze on Nickelodeon. In 2022, Conover's limited series The G Word with Adam Conover debuted on Netflix. Conover currently serves on the board of the Writers Guild of America West.
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Gia Coppola
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- film actorfilm directoractorplaywrightscreenwriter
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Gian-Carla Coppola is an American film director and screenwriter. She is a granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola, the daughter of Jacqui de la Fontaine and Gian-Carlo Coppola, and the niece of Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola.
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Matt Taibbi
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- journalistopinion journalisteditorial columnistwriter
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Matthew Colin Taibbi is an American author, journalist, and podcaster. He has reported on finance, media, politics, and sports. A former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, he is an author of several books, co-host of Useful Idiots, and publisher of the newsletter Racket News (formerly TK News) on Substack.
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John McWhorter
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- professorwritercreolist
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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.
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Alison Bechdel
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- comics artistcartoonistnovelist
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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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Raphael Bob-Waksberg
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- television actorvoice actoractortelevision producerscreenwriter
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Raphael Matthew Bob-Waksberg is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, and voice actor. He is known as the creator and showrunner of the Netflix animated comedy series BoJack Horseman and the Amazon Prime Video animated series Undone. He is also an executive producer on the Netflix/Adult Swim animated series Tuca & Bertie, created by BoJack Horseman production designer Lisa Hanawalt.
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Chris Claremont
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- film actorcomics creatorwriterscience fiction writer
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Christopher S. Claremont is a British-born American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 16-year stint on Uncanny X-Men from 1975 to 1991, far longer than that of any other writer, during which he is credited with developing strong female characters as well as introducing complex literary themes into superhero narratives, turning the once underachieving comic into one of Marvel's most popular series.
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Richard M. Sherman
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- actorscreenwritercomposersongwriter
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Richard Morton Sherman is an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Robert B. Sherman. According to the official Walt Disney Company website and independent fact checkers, "the Sherman Brothers were responsible for more motion picture musical song scores than any other songwriting team in film history."
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Robert B. Sherman
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- songwriterplaywrightautobiographeressayistlyricist
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Robert Bernard Sherman was an American songwriter, best known for his work in musical films with his brother, Richard M. Sherman. The Sherman brothers produced more motion picture song scores than any other songwriting team in film history. Some of their songs were incorporated into live action and animation musical films including Mary Poppins, The Happiest Millionaire, The Jungle Book, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Slipper and the Rose, and Charlotte's Web. Their best-known work is "It's a Small World (After All)" possibly the most-performed song (in public) in history.
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Christian Scheider
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- actortelevision actor
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Christian Scheider is an American writer, filmmaker, and stage artist.
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Carolee Schneemann
- Enrolled in Bard College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- choreographerphotographerperformance artistpaintervideo artist
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Carolee Schneemann was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. in poetry and philosophy from Bard College and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois. Originally a painter in the Abstract Expressionist tradition, Schneeman was uninterested in the masculine heroism of New York painters of the time and turned to performance-based work, primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the individual in relation to social bodies. Although renowned for her work in performance and other media, Schneemann began her career as a painter, stating, "I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas." Her works have been shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the London National Film Theatre, and many other venues.
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Ben Goertzel
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- bioinformaticianartificial intelligence researchermathematiciancomputer scientist
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Ben Goertzel is a cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, CEO and founder of SingularityNET, leader of the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society, and chair of Humanity+. He helped popularize the term 'artificial general intelligence'.
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Olivia Cole
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- actorfilm actortelevision actorstage actor
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Olivia Carlena Cole was an American actress, best known for her Emmy Award-winning role in the 1977 miniseries Roots.
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Sonita Alizadeh
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- composerrapperwomen's rights activist
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Sonita Alizadeh is an Afghan rapper and activist who has been vocal against forced marriages. Alizadeh first gained attention when she released "Brides for Sale," a video in which she raps about daughters being sold into marriage by their families. With the help of Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, an Iranian documentary filmmaker who over three years documented her story in the film Sonita, Alizadeh filmed the video to escape a marriage her parents were planning for her, even though it is illegal for women to sing solo in Iran, where she was living at the time. After releasing the video on YouTube, Alizadeh was contacted by the Strongheart Group, which offered her a student visa and financial help to come and study in the United States of America, where she then relocated and has resided since. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.
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James Cox Chambers
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- actordancerchoreographer
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James Cox Chambers is an American billionaire heir, renewable energy businessman, biodynamic farmer, and filmmaker. As of May 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$4.7 billion.
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Maury Ginsberg
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractor
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Maury Ginsberg is an American theater, film and television actor. He is best known for his recurring roles as Steven Benowitz on season 2 of Jessica Jones and Simon White on season 2 of NBC's Manifest. Ginsberg is a graduate of Bard College and resides in the New York metro area.
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Mike Doughty
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- singer-songwriterbloggerengineersingerstreet artist
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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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Nick Zinner
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- record producerphotographermusicianguitaristsongwriter
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Nicholas Joseph Zinner is the guitarist and record producer for the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Zinner is also an accomplished photographer.
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Harry Dodge
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- sculptor
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Harry Dodge is an American sculptor, performer, video artist, professor, and writer.
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Asher Edelman
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- financierart dealer
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Asher Barry Edelman is an American financier.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
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- film criticjournalistauthor
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Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American film critic and author. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for The Chicago Reader from 1987 to 2008, when he retired. He has published and edited numerous books about cinema and has contributed to such notable film publications as Cahiers du cinéma and Film Comment.
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Lucian Wintrich
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- artistdigital strategistphotographerjournalistorator
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Lucian Baxter Wintrich IV is an American artist, photographer, writer, speaker, and the former White House correspondent for far-right fake news website The Gateway Pundit.
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Albert Jay Nock
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- autobiographerjournalistsociologistbiographeressayist
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Albert Jay Nock was an American libertarian author, editor first of The Freeman and then The Nation, educational theorist, Georgist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th century. He was an outspoken opponent of the New Deal, and served as a fundamental inspiration for the modern libertarian and conservative movements, cited as an influence by William F. Buckley Jr. He was one of the first Americans to self-identify as "libertarian". His best-known books are Memoirs of a Superfluous Man and Our Enemy, the State.
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Juliana Huxtable
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- performance artistphotographerdisc jockeyvisual artist
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Juliana Huxtable is an American artist, writer, performer, DJ, and co-founder of the New York-based nightlife project Shock Value. Huxtable has exhibited and performed at a number of venues including Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Project Native Informant, Artists Space, the New Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and Institute of Contemporary Arts. Huxtable's multidisciplinary art practice explores a number of projects, such as the internet, the body, history, and text, often through a process she calls "conditioning." Huxtable is a published author of two books and a member of the New York City-based collective House of Ladosha. She is on the roster of the talent agency Discwoman, a New York based collective and talent agency that books DJs for parties and events around the world. She previously lived and worked in New York City, and has been based in Berlin since 2020.
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Michael Tolkin
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- writerfilm producerscreenwriternovelistfilm director
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Michael L. Tolkin is an American filmmaker and novelist. He has written numerous screenplays, including The Player (1992), which he adapted from his own 1988 novel of the same name, and for which he received the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay (1993) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He later wrote a follow-up to the novel, titled The Return of the Player, which was published in 2006.
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Eli Pariser
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- peace activistpolitical activistopinion journalistjournalistwriter
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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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Sadie Benning
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- television producervisual artistmusicianpaintervideographer
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Sadie T. Benning is an American artist, who has worked primarily in video, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and sound. Benning creates experimental films and explores a variety of themes including surveillance, gender, ambiguity, transgression, play, intimacy, and identity. They became a known artist as a teenager, with their short films made with a PixelVision camera that have been described as "video diaries".
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Anne Bogart
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- playwrightwritertheatrical director
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Anne Bogart is an American theatre and opera director. She is currently one of the Artistic Directors of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Concentration and is the author of four books of essays on theater making: A Director Prepares; And Then, You Act; What's the Story; and The Art of Resonance. She is a co-author, with Tina Landau of The Viewpoints Book, a "practical guide" to Viewpoints training and devising techniques. Conversations with Anne, a collection of interviews she has conducted with various notable artists was published in March 2012.
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Ashim Ahluwalia
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Ashim Ahluwalia is a film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with the feature-length documentary John & Jane (2005), which had a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and a European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, and won him the 2005 National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director. This was followed by his first narrative feature film Miss Lovely, premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. which won him India's National Film Award – Special Jury Award (Feature film), and Best Production Design at the 61st National Film Awards.
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Daniel Pinkwater
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- writerchildren's writer
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater is an American author of children's books and young adult fiction. His books include Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Fat Men from Space, Borgel, and the picture book The Big Orange Splot. He has also written an adult novel, The Afterlife Diet, and essay collections derived from his talks on National Public Radio.
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Ada Palmer
- Occupations
- novelistwriterhistorianscience fiction writer
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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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Tom Begich
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas Scott Begich is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the Alaska Senate. He represented District J from 2017 to 2023 and was elected twice without general election opposition. In 2022, his seat was redistricted, and Begich chose to withdraw his candidacy for the seat.
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Christine Sun Kim
- Enrolled in Bard College
- Studied in 2013
- Occupations
- sound artist
- Biography
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Christine Sun Kim is an American sound artist based in Berlin. Working predominantly in drawing, performance, and video, Kim's practice considers how sound operates in society. Musical notation, written language, American Sign Language (ASL), and the use of the body are all recurring elements in her work. Her work has been exhibited in major cultural institutions internationally, including in the Museum of Modern Art's first exhibition about sound in 2013 and the Whitney Biennial in 2019. She was named a TED Fellow in both 2013 and 2015, a Director's Fellow at MIT Media Lab in 2015, and a Ford Foundation Disability Futures Fellow in 2020.
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Elliott Sharp
- Occupations
- composerjazz guitaristguitaristperformance artistclarinetist
- Biography
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Elliott Sharp is an American contemporary classical composer, multi-instrumentalist, and performer.
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Jeanne Lee
- Occupations
- writerrecording artistchoreographerjazz musiciansinger
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Jeanne Lee was an American jazz singer, poet and composer. Best known for a wide range of vocal styles she mastered, Lee collaborated with numerous distinguished composers and performers who included Gunter Hampel, Andrew Cyrille, Ran Blake, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown, Archie Shepp, Mal Waldron, Mark Whitecage and many others.
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Anthony Hecht
- Enrolled in Bard College
- Studied in 1944
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Anthony Evan Hecht was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work.
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David Horvitz
- Occupations
- conceptual artistvideo artistartistphotographerfilmmaker
- Biography
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David Horvitz is an American artist who uses art books, photography, performance art, and mail art as media for his work. He is known for his work in the virtual sphere. Horvitz is a graduate from Bard College.
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Layli Long Soldier
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- poet
- Biography
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Layli Long Soldier is an Oglala Lakota poet, writer, feminist, artist, and activist.
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Chidi Chike Achebe
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Chidi Chike Achebe is a Nigerian-American physician executive. He is currently the chairman and CEO of AIDE (African Integrated Development Enterprise). AIDE is a Boston-based organization dedicated to the development of the African continent. Dr. Achebe has also served as the president and CEO of Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center, Medical Director of Whittier Street Health Center and as assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine– all in Boston, Massachusetts. Achebe also serves as medical consultant; Clean water for kids – an NGO that brings fresh water to underserved communities in Liberia; and advisor for Tesfa Health, Bahirdar, Ethiopia.
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Ran Blake
- Occupations
- jazz musicianuniversity teacherpianistrecording artistmusic teacher
- Biography
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Ran Blake is an American pianist, composer, and educator. He is known for his unique style that combines blues, gospel, classical, and film noir influences into an innovative and dark jazz sound. His career spans over 40 recording credits on jazz albums along with more than 40 years of teaching jazz at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he started the Department of Third Stream (now called the Department of Contemporary Improvisation) with Gunther Schuller.
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Chaya Czernowin
- Occupations
- composeruniversity teachermusic teacher
- Biography
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Chaya Czernowin is an Israeli American composer, and Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University.
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Nayland Blake
- Occupations
- installation artistvideo artistvisual artistphotographerdrawer
- Biography
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Nayland Blake is an American artist whose focus is on interracial attraction, same-sex love, and intolerance of the prejudice toward them. Their mixed-media work has been variously described as disturbing, provocative, elusive, tormented, sinister, hysterical, brutal, and tender.
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John Yau
- Occupations
- writerjournalistpoetcuratorscreenwriter
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John Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, fiction, and art criticism.
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Baron Von Fancy
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Gordon Stevenson, known as Baron Von Fancy for certain artistic and commercial purposes, is a multimedia artist who lives and works in New York City.
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Andrew Zwicker
- Enrolled in Bard College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew P. Zwicker is an American physicist and politician who has served in the New Jersey Senate from the 16th Legislative District since 2022. He previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 16th District from 2016 to 2022. Zwicker was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in New Jersey's 12th congressional district in 2014.
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László Z. Bitó
- Enrolled in Bard College
- Studied in 1960
- Occupations
- ophthalmologistphysicianwriterphysiologist
- Biography
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László Z. Bitó was a Hungarian physiologist and writer. As a researcher, he developed a medication for glaucoma. As a writer, he wrote novels and essays.
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Martine Syms
- Occupations
- filmmaker
- Biography
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Martine Syms is an American artist based in Los Angeles who works in publishing, video, installation, and performance. Her work focuses on identity and the portrayal of the self in relation to themes such as feminism and Black culture. This is often explored through humour and social commentary. Syms coined the term "conceptual entrepreneur" in 2007 to characterize her practice.
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Tschabalala Self
- Occupations
- painter
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Tschabalala Self is an American artist best known for her depictions of Black female figures using paint, fabric, and discarded pieces of her previous works. Though she uses mixed media, all of her works are on canvas and employ a "painting language." Inspired by works done by an African-American artist, Romare Bearden, Tschabalala Self creates collages of various items that she has collected over time and sews them together to depict black female bodies that "defy the narrow spaces in which they are forced to exist", which she derives from the history behind the African-American struggle and oppression in society. Self reclaims the black female body and portrays them to be free of stereotypes without having to fear being punished. Her goal is to "create alternative narratives around the black body". Much of Self's work uses elements from black culture to construct quilt-like portraits.
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Annie Finch
- Occupations
- essayistlinguistlibrettistpoetwriter
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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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Juliana Spahr
- Occupations
- poetliterary criticwriter
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Juliana Spahr is an American poet, critic, and editor. She is the recipient of the 2009 Hardison Poetry Prize awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and daring.
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Chus Martínez
- Enrolled in Bard College
- In 2001 graduated with Master of Arts in curatorial studies
- Occupations
- philosopherart historianwriterexhibition curator
- Biography
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Chus Martínez is a Spanish curator, art historian, and writer. She is currently the director of the Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, where she also runs the Institute’s exhibition space Der Tank. Additionally, Martínez is the artistic director of Ocean Space, Venice, a space spearheaded by TBA21–Academy that promotes ocean literacy, research, and advocacy through the arts. In 2017, Martínez was curator of KölnSkulptur #9. She sits on the advisory boards of numerous international art institutions, including Castello di Rivoli, Turin; De Appel, Amsterdam; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg.
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Charlotte Dean
- Occupations
- illustrator
- Biography
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Charlotte Dean is a writer, illustrator, and visual artist known for writing and co-directing the show Charlotte's Shorts, along with Emmy award writer, director, and producer Tracy Newman.
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Pierre Joris
- Occupations
- anthologisttranslatorpoetessayistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Pierre Joris is a Luxembourg-American poet, essayist, translator, and anthologist. He has moved between Europe, North Africa & the US for 55 years, publishing over 80 books of poetry, essays, translations & anthologies — most recently Fox-trails, -tales & -trots: Poems & Proses (Black Fountain Press), the translations Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan (FSG) & Microliths: Posthumous Prose of Paul Celan (CMP) & A City Full of Voices: Essays on the Work of Robert Kelly. Earlier, Arabia (not so) Deserta (Essays, Spuyten Duyvil 2019), Conversations in the Pyrenees with Adonis (CMP 2018), & The Book of U/ Le livre des cormorans (with Nicole Peyrafitte, Simoncini 2017).
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Deborah Sussman
- Occupations
- artistdesignergraphic designer
- Biography
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Deborah Sussman was an American designer and a pioneer in the field of environmental graphic design. Her work incorporated graphic design into architectural and public spaces.
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Xaviera Simmons
- Occupations
- photographervisual artist
- Biography
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Xaviera Simmons is an American contemporary artist. She works in photography, performance, painting, video, sound art, sculpture, and installation. Between 2019 and 2020, Simmons was a visiting professor and lecturer at Harvard University. Simmons was a Harvard University Solomon Fellow from 2019-2020. Simmons has stated in her lectures and writings that she is a descendant of Black American enslaved persons, European colonizers and Indigenous persons through the institution of chattel slavery on both sides of her family's lineage.
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Jedediah Berry
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Jedediah Berry is an American writer. He is the author of a novel, The Manual of Detection (2009).
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Henry Alford
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- 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. A former columnist for The New York Times and contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he is the author of 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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Michael Jeffrey Shapiro
- Occupations
- conductorbroadcasterwritercomposer
- Biography
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Michael Jeffrey Shapiro is an American composer, conductor, and author.
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Alva Rogers
- Enrolled in Bard College
- Graduated with Master of Arts in teaching
- Occupations
- puppeteerperforming artistvisual artistsingeractor
- Biography
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Alva Rogers is an American playwright, composer, actor, vocalist, and arts educator. She is known for the use of dolls and puppetry in interdisciplinary work. Rogers performed in the role of Eula Peazant in Julie Dash's 1991 film Daughters of the Dust. and was a vocalist in the New York City alternative rock band Band of Susans.
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Elio Fox
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Elio Fox is an American professional poker player whose first World Series of Poker in the money finish was the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe main event that he won. He has played online, where he is a high-stakes No limit Texas hold'em rebuy specialist, since 2009 but had his first notable live play results in 2011. Prior to the World Series of Poker bracelet that he won at the 2011 WSOP Europe, his best live event finish was the 224-player $10,000 + $300 July 12 – 19, 2011 Bellagio Cup VII victory for a prize of $669,692. The event's final table included Ted Forrest, William Thorson and Brandon Cantu. Fox' other previous live event victory was the 251-player $1,590 June 24 – 26, 2011 Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza III No-Limit Hold'em Event 30 for a prize of $87,192.
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Candice Hopkins
- Enrolled in Bard College
- In 2003 graduated with Master of Arts in curatorial studies
- Occupations
- writercurator
- Biography
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Candice Hopkins is a Carcross/Tagish First Nation independent curator, writer, and researcher who predominantly explores areas of indigenous history, and art.
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David Rolf
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- trade unionist
- Biography
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David Rolf is an American labor leader, writer, and speaker. He was the Founding President of Seattle-based Local 775 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents health care workers, and formerly served as international vice president of SEIU. He is the author of The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America (New Press, 2016) about the movement by low-wage workers to earn a higher minimum wage, and A Roadmap to Rebuilding Worker Power (The Century Foundation, 2018). Rolf was a founder of the Fair Work Center in Seattle, Working Washington, The Workers Lab in Oakland, and the SEIU 775 Benefits Group.
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Jack Lewis
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
- Biography
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Jack Lewis is an American musician and artist. He was born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He is the younger brother of Jeffrey Lewis, whom he has often performed and recorded with. Jack Lewis is now based in Portland, Oregon
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Gary Robinson
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Gary Robinson is an American software engineer and mathematician and inventor notable for his mathematical algorithms to fight spam. In addition, he patented a method to use web browser cookies to track consumers across different web sites, allowing marketers to better match advertisements with consumers. The patent was bought by DoubleClick, and then DoubleClick was bought by Google. He is credited as being one of the first to use automated collaborative filtering technologies to turn word-of-mouth recommendations into useful data.
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Brandon Grove
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Brandon Hambright Grove Jr. was the United States Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and Zaire (1984–87) and served on the board of directors of the American Academy of Diplomacy.
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Nat Gertler
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 58)
- Enrolled in Bard College
- Studied in 1980-1983
- Occupations
- publishereditorwriter
- 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 two Eisner Awards.
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Andrew Durbin
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Andrew Durbin is an American poet, novelist, and editor. As of 2019, he has served as editor-in-chief of Frieze magazine. Prior to his position at Frieze, he co-founded Company Gallery, served as the Talks Curator at the Poetry Project, and served as a co-editor at Wonder press. Durbin is the author of two novels books and several chapbooks. He lives and works in London.
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Jewell Jackson McCabe
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Jewell Jackson McCabe is an American feminist, business executive, social and political activist. She was a leader of, and spokesperson for, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women's movement in the mid to late 1970s in New York City and for the national movement throughout the United States in the early 1980s into the 1990s, as founder of the organization which grew out of her New York City stewardship. In 1993 she became the first woman in 84 years to be in serious contention for the presidency of the civil rights organizations NAACP. Distinguished as an activist Jewell collaborated with several leading African American women leaders of varied and often opposing political ideologies who had in common their opposition to the million man march for excluding black women, including Angela Davis.
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Serkan Özkaya
- Occupations
- conceptual artistartist
- Biography
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Serkan Özkaya is a Turkish-American conceptual artist whose work deals with topics of appropriation and reproduction. He typically operates outside of traditional art spaces and often makes multiple versions of even his own work, including his most noted work David (inspired by Michelangelo). Özkaya's artworks are held in the permanent collections of the İstanbul Modern, Borusan Contemporary Art, and Arter in Istanbul, as well as three different 21c Museum Hotels locations—Louisville, Kentucky; Bentonville, Arkansas; and Nashville, Tennessee.
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Laida Lertxundi
- Occupations
- university teacherfilm director
- Biography
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Laida Lertxundi is a Spanish artist, filmmaker and professor of fine arts based in the United States and The Basque Country, Spain.
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Jah Levi
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 61)
- 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.
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Laurel Ptak
- Enrolled in Bard College
- In 2011 graduated with Master of Arts in curatorial studies
- Occupations
- curator
- Biography
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Laurel Ptak is an artist, curator, writer and educator based in New York City.
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Kambui Olujimi
- Occupations
- visual artist
- Biography
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Kambui Olujimi is a New York-based visual artist working across disciplines using installation, photography, performance, tapestry, works on paper, video, large sculptures and painting. His artwork reflects on public discourse, mythology, historical narrative, social practices, exchange, mediated cultures, resilience and autonomy.
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Gilda Lyons
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Gilda Lyons is an American composer, vocalist, and visual artist who writes music that "combines elements of renaissance, neo-baroque, spectral, agitprop Music Theater, and extended vocalism".
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Andriy Budnyi
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Andriy Budnyi is a Ukrainian footballer.
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Donn O'Meara
- Years
- 1924-2004 (aged 80)
- Occupations
- anthropologistlinguist
- Biography
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Donn O'Meara was an author, linguist and anthropologist. His most well known book, Living Jewish was published in 1972.
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Elie A. Shneour
- Occupations
- biochemistresearcher
- Biography
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Elie Alexis Shneour was a French-born American neurochemist, biophysicist and author.
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Eve Heller
- Occupations
- translatorfilm producerfilmmaker
- Biography
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Eve Heller, born in 1961 in Amherst, is an American filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria.
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Daniella Ohad Smith
- Occupations
- historianart historian
- Biography
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Daniella Ohad is an American-Israeli design historian, educator, writer, and influencer. She teaches history of design, material culture, design connoisseurship, and design culture at Parsons School of Design and New York School of Interior Design in New York City. Ohad has curated and moderated educational talks and panels at Design Miami, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 92nd Street Y, AIA New York | Center for Architecture, the New York School of Interior Design, and Sotheby's. Her articles and essays have been published in academic journals and magazines, she has hosted a talk show on design and architecture, created documentaries, and curated private design collections. Her essay Hotel Design in British Mandate Palestine: Modernism and the Zionist Vision received a special mention from the jury of the Premio Bruno Zevi in 2010.
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Cecilia Berkovic
- Occupations
- multimedia artist
- Biography
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Cecilia Berkovic is a Toronto-based mixed media artist, sculptor and graphic designer.
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Gabi Ngcobo
- Enrolled in Bard College
- In 2010 graduated with Master of Arts in curatorial studies
- Occupations
- artistcurator
- Biography
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Gabi Ngcobo is a South African curator, artist and educator. Currently she is the Curatorial Director at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria.
