100 Notable alumni of
Binghamton University
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Binghamton University is 601st in the world, 220th in North America, and 203rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Binghamton University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with Binghamton University won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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William Baldwin
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- Studied political science
- Occupations
- actortelevision actorscreenwritermodelfilm actor
- Biography
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William Baldwin is an American actor and the second-youngest of the four Baldwin brothers. He has starred in the films Flatliners (1990), Backdraft (1991), Sliver (1993), Virus (1999), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Forgetting Sarah Marshall, in which he portrayed himself, and the Netflix show Northern Rescue (2019). Baldwin is married to singer Chynna Phillips.
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Karthik Siva kumar
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Karthik Sivakumar, credited as Karthi, is an Indian actor who works in Tamil cinema. He is the son of veteran actor Sivakumar, and began his career as an assistant director in his elder brother Suriya's film Aayutha Ezhuthu (2004). He debuted as a lead actor with Paruthiveeran (2007). Karthi is a recipient of three Filmfare Awards South and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award.
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Paul Reiser
- Occupations
- television actormusiciansongwriteressayistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Paul Reiser is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He played the roles of Michael Taylor in the 1980s sitcom My Two Dads, Paul Buchman in the NBC sitcom Mad About You, Modell in the 1982 film Diner, and Detective Jeffrey Friedman in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise. He has gained recognition for his roles as Jim Neiman in the 2014 film Whiplash and Dr. Sam Owens in the Netflix series Stranger Things.
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Hakeem Jeffries
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- In 1992 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- clerklawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Hakeem Sekou Jeffries is an American politician and attorney who has served as House minority leader and leader of the House Democratic Caucus since 2023. Currently in his seventh term, Jeffries has been the U.S. representative for New York's 8th congressional district since 2013 and served three terms as a member of the New York State Assembly from 2007 to 2012.
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Norman Finkelstein
- Occupations
- human rights defenderpolitical scientistwriteruniversity teacheracademic
- Biography
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Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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Dave Rubin
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- In 1998 studied political science
- Occupations
- radio personalityYouTuberpodcastercomedianactor
- Biography
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David Joshua Rubin is an American political commentator, talk show host, YouTuber, and author. He is the host of The Rubin Report, a talk show on YouTube and the BlazeTV network. The program was first launched in 2013 as part of the TYT Network; Rubin left in 2015, citing ideological differences. He previously co-hosted LGBTQ-themed talk shows, including The Ben and Dave Show (2007–2008) and The Six Pack (2009–2012), both with Ben Harvey.
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Sunny Hostin
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- television presenterlawyerjournalist
- Biography
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Asunción "Sunny" Cummings Hostin is an American lawyer, author, and television host. She is a co-host on ABC's morning talk show The View, for which she received nominations for Daytime Emmy Awards, as well as the Senior Legal Correspondent and Analyst for ABC News. She was also the host and executive producer of Investigation Discovery's true crime series Truth About Murder with Sunny Hostin.
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Camille Paglia
- Occupations
- university teacherfilm criticjournalistliterary criticessayist
- Biography
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Camille Anna Paglia is an American academic, social critic and feminist. Paglia was a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1984 until the university's closure in 2024. She is critical of many aspects of modern culture and is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) and other books. She is also a critic of contemporary American feminism and of post-structuralism, as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of American culture such as its visual art, music, and film history.
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Alexander Vindman
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in study of history
- Occupations
- officialmilitary officerdiplomatactor
- Biography
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Alexander Semyon Vindman is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel who was the Director of European Affairs for the United States National Security Council (NSC) until he was reassigned on February 7, 2020. He came to national attention in October 2019 as a key witness before the United States Congress regarding the Trump–Ukraine scandal. His testimony revealed that he triggered the House inquiry, and provided evidence that resulted in a charge of abuse of power in the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
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Art Spiegelman
- Occupations
- illustratordraftspersoncomics artistadvertising illustratorphotographer
- Biography
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Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman, professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is a Polish-American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman. In September 2022, the National Book Foundation announced that he would receive the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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Ingrid Michaelson
- Occupations
- pianistcomposersinger-songwriterrecording artistguitarist
- Biography
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Ingrid Ellen Michaelson is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for her 2006 single "The Way I Am" and her 2014 single "Girls Chase Boys", both of which achieved success on Billboard's Adult Contemporary and Adult Top 40 charts, and received platinum certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She has released eight independent albums.
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Jenna Wolfe
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Jenna Wolfe is a Jamaican-born Haitian and American journalist and personal trainer. From 2007 to 2014, she was a correspondent for NBC's Today and Sunday co-anchor from 2007 to 2012 and news anchor for Weekend Today from 2012 to 2014. On September 12, 2014, Wolfe left the weekend Today show for a new role as lifestyle and fitness correspondent on the weekday Today show and NBC News.
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Victor Williams
- Occupations
- actordub actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Victor L. Williams is an American actor best known as Doug Heffernan's (Kevin James) best friend Deacon Palmer on The King of Queens. He has also appeared on several other hit TV shows, including Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, ER, New York Undercover, Girlfriends, Fringe and The Jamie Foxx Show. In 2012, Williams was seen and heard as a pitchman for Verizon Fios television commercials.
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Tony Kornheiser
- Occupations
- sports columnistcolor commentatorjournalist
- Biography
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Anthony Irwin Kornheiser is an American television sports talk show host, podcaster, and former sportswriter and columnist. Kornheiser is best known for his endeavors in three forms of media: as a writer for The Washington Post from 1979 to 2008, as a co-host of ESPN's Emmy Award-winning sports debate show Pardon the Interruption since 2001, and as the host of The Tony Kornheiser Show, a radio show and podcast. Longtime ESPN executive John Walsh once declared that "in the history of sports media, is the most multitalented person ever."
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Carol Leifer
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directortelevision actoractortelevision producer
- Biography
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Carol Leifer is an American comedian, writer and producer whose career as a stand-up comedian started in the 1970s when she was in college. She has written many television scripts including The Larry Sanders Show, Saturday Night Live and Seinfeld.
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson
- Occupations
- playwrightfilm actorstage actortelevision actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson is an American actor, playwright, and director who has won national awards for his work in all three categories. He is best known for his role of Captain Roy Montgomery from 2009 to 2011 on ABC's Castle. In November 2011, he appeared on Broadway in Lydia R. Diamond's play Stick Fly. In 2013, he starred in the TV series Low Winter Sun, a police drama set in Detroit. In 2021, he was nominated for best adaptation by the Screen Writers Guild for the film version of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
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Kvitka Cisyk
- Occupations
- singeractoropera singer
- Biography
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Kvitka Cisyk was an American coloratura soprano of Ukrainian ethnicity. Cisyk, a classically trained opera singer, achieved success in four musical genres: popular music, classical opera, Ukrainian folk music and commercial jingles for radio and TV advertisements.
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Lee Ranaldo
- Occupations
- cinematographerrecord producercomposerinstallation artistpoet
- Biography
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Lee Mark Ranaldo is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 guitarist list, ranking Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore together at number 1.
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Steven Fulop
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Steven Michael Fulop is an American politician who served as the 49th mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey from 2013 to 2026. A member of the Democratic Party, he was formerly the Councilman for Jersey City's Ward E. from 2005 to 2013.
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Andy Kindler
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision actorcomedianvoice actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Andy David Kindler is an American comedian and actor. He played the character Andy, a fellow sportswriter and friend of the titular character on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, was a regular guest on Late Show with David Letterman, a contributor to The Daily Show, and has performed on HBO. Kindler frequently performs as a voice actor in animated television series from producer Loren Bouchard, including roles on Dr. Katz, Home Movies, and the recurring character of Mort the mortician on Bob's Burgers.
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Robyn Adele Anderson
- Occupations
- stage actorjournalistsingeractor
- Biography
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Robyn Adele Anderson is an American singer and stage actress based in New York City. She is a cast member and featured artist for Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox with over 250 million YouTube views on her music videos. She is credited with the band's breakthrough covers of "Thrift Shop" and "We Can't Stop" in 2013. Anderson also performed lead vocals for performances on Good Morning America (ABC) in 2013, and TEDx in 2014.
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Morteza Aghatehrani
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Morteza Aghatehrani is an Iranian Shia cleric and principlist politician. He was former secretary-general of the Front of Islamic Revolution Stability, and now representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr in the Parliament of Iran since 2020. He was also a member of Iranian Parliament from 2008 to 2016.
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M. Stanley Whittingham
- Occupations
- university teacherchemistengineer
- Biography
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Sir Michael Stanley Whittingham is a British-American chemist. He is a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He also serves as director of the Northeastern Center for Chemical Energy Storage (NECCES) of the U.S. Department of Energy at Binghamton. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside Akira Yoshino and John B. Goodenough.
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Adam Huss
- Occupations
- film produceractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Adam Thomas Huss is an American actor. Huss is best known for his role as Josh Kantos in the Starz TV series Power, Lance in the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, and Nikolas Cassadine in the ABC soap opera General Hospital. He was also an on-air radio personality "Big City Kid" or "BCK" on Radio Disney affiliate.
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Deborah Tannen
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English literature
- Occupations
- university teacherauthorlinguist
- Biography
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Deborah Frances Tannen is an American author and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Best known as the author of You Just Don't Understand, she has been a McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences following a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Karl Ravech
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Karl Ravech is an American journalist who works as the primary play by play commentator for Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN.
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Bill T. Jones
- Occupations
- choreographer
- Biography
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William Tass Jones, known as Bill T. Jones, is an American choreographer, director, author and dancer. He is the co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. The company's home is in Manhattan. Jones is Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, whose activities encompass an annual presenting season together with allied education programming and services for artists. Independently of New York Live Arts and his dance company, Jones has choreographed for major performing arts ensembles, contributed to Broadway and other theatrical productions, and collaborated on projects with a range of fellow artists. Jones has been called "one of the most notable, recognized modern-dance choreographers and directors of our time."
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John Liu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Chun Yah Liu is an American politician in New York City. A member of the Democratic Party, he is a member of the New York State Senate for the 16th district in northeast Queens. He previously served as the 43rd New York City Comptroller from 2010 to 2013, and as a member of the New York City Council from 2002 to 2009, representing the 20th district in northeast Queens. He was the first Asian American New York City Council member and Comptroller, and one of the first two Asian American New York State Senators, as well as the first elected to legislative or citywide office in New York. He was also a candidate in the 2013 New York City mayoral election.
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Michael J. Garcia
- Occupations
- prosecutorlawyerjudge
- Biography
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Michael John Garcia is an American attorney and former government official. Since February 2016, he has served as an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, that state's highest court. He is a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (2005–2008). Between his service as United States Attorney and his appointment to the Court of Appeals, Garcia was a partner at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis. He has also served as chairman of El Museo del Barrio.
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Dava Sobel
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Dava Sobel is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include Longitude, about English clockmaker John Harrison; Galileo's Daughter, about Galileo's daughter Maria Celeste; and The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars about the Harvard Computers.
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Jonathan Corbblah
- Biography
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Jonathan Corbblah is a chess master from New York City, known for his appearances on many American game shows.
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Linda Arrigo
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- 1983-1996 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- human rights defender
- Biography
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Linda Gail Arrigo is an American political activist, human rights activist, and academic researcher in Taiwan. She formerly served as the international affairs officer of Green Party Taiwan. She is the ex-wife of the former chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, Shih Ming-teh.
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Jeff Korek
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Jeff S. Korek is a New York City-based trial lawyer and partner at Gersowitz Libo & Korek, a personal injury law firm. He is a past president of the New York State Trial Lawyers' Association and a former commentator on Court TV.
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Nathan Englander
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Nathan Englander is an American short story writer and novelist. His debut short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, was published by Alfred A. Knopf, in 1999. His second collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, won the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Anita Diamant
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Anita Diamant is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books. She has published five novels, the most recent of which is The Boston Girl, a New York Times best seller. She is best known for her 1997 novel The Red Tent, which eventually became a best seller and book club favorite. She has also written six guides to contemporary Jewish practice, including The New Jewish Wedding, Living a Jewish Life, and The New Jewish Baby Book, as well as a collection of personal essays, Pitching My Tent.
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Ron Brownstein
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Ronald J. Brownstein is an American journalist, political correspondent and analyst.
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Andrew Lelling
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Andrew E. Lelling is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 2017 to 2021. He is best known for leading Operation Varsity Blues, the federal investigation and prosecution of a massive nationwide college admissions scandal, He also oversaw the largest-ever prosecution of MS-13, which all but eliminated the notorious Salvadoran gang in the Boston area and the prosecution of six eBay employees involved in the eBay stalking scandal which involved the terrorizing of a middle-aged couple living in greater Boston, Massachusetts. His tenure was also marked by major gang and healthcare enforcement actions. Lelling, however, was also criticized by some as being "overzealous, grandstanding, and politically motivated" for his prosecution of a local trial judge who helped an undocumented immigrant charged with drug crimes avoid arrest by immigration authorities.
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J. Hoberman
- Occupations
- film criticjournalistfilm theoristuniversity teacher
- Biography
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James Lewis Hoberman is an American film critic, journalist, author and academic. He began working at The Village Voice in the 1970s, became a full-time staff writer in 1983, and was the newspaper's senior film critic from 1988 to 2012. In 1981, he coined the term "vulgar modernism" to describe the "looney" fringes of American popular culture (e.g. the animators Tex Avery and Chuck Jones, MAD Magazine, TV pioneer Ernie Kovacs and the films of Frank Tashlin).
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John Mannion
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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John W. Mannion is an American educator and politician who has served as the U.S. representative from New York's 22nd congressional district since 2025. He previously served as a state senator from the 50th district between 2020 and 2024. Before entering politics, Mannion was a high school biology teacher.
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Jeffrey Ford
- Occupations
- essayistteachernovelistwriterscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Jeffrey Ford is an American writer in the fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including fantasy, science fiction and mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales. He is a graduate of Binghamton University, where he studied with the novelist John Gardner.
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Steven Canals
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- screenwriter
- Biography
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Steven Canals is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for co-creating and executive-producing the FX television show Pose.
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Jami Floyd
- Occupations
- news presenterlawyerjournalistmedia personality
- Biography
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Jami Floyd is an American attorney, journalist, network news anchor, legal and political analyst, and former White House Fellow. She is a legal analyst at ABC News and a former Legal Analyst at MSNBC, Legal Contributor to Al Jazeera America, and the former host of "All Things Considered" at WNYC Radio. She serves on Manhattan Community Board 7 as a co-chair of the Transportation Committee and is the author of a forthcoming book, “Dream Interrupted,” about Thurgood Marshall.
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Jay Walder
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Jay Walder is an American transportation executive. He was the CEO of Hyperloop One, an American transportation technology company. He has been the CEO of Motivate, a bike sharing company, and of the Hong Kong transit company MTR Corporation, before resigning from that position in July 2014.
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Scott Diamond
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Scott Michael Diamond is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays, and in the KBO League for the SK Wyverns.
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Alan Berliner
- Occupations
- installation artistnew media artistfilm director
- Biography
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Alan Berliner is an American independent filmmaker. The New York Times has described Berliner's work as "powerful, compelling and bittersweet... full of juicy conflict and contradiction, innovative in their cinematic technique, unpredictable in their structures... Alan Berliner illustrates the power of fine art to transform life."
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Jonathan Gottschall
- Occupations
- literary theorist
- Biography
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Jonathan Gottschall is an American literary scholar specializing in literature and evolution. He holds the title of Distinguished Fellow in the English department of Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of eight books.
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Monica Martinez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Monica R. Martinez is a Salvadoran-American, civil servant, educator and politician from the state of New York. A Democrat, she is a member of the New York State Senate representing the 4th district. Martinez has also served in the Suffolk County Legislature, representing the 9th district. She is a former Assistant Principal at East Middle School in Brentwood, NY.
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Jason Starr
- Occupations
- novelistscreenwriterwriter
- Biography
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Jason Starr is an American author, comic book writer, and screenwriter from New York City. Starr has written numerous crime fiction novels and thrillers.
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Adam Gazzaley
- Occupations
- researcherneurologist
- Biography
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Adam Gazzaley is an American neuroscientist, author, photographer, entrepreneur and inventor. He is the founder and executive director of Neuroscape and the David Dolby Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is co-founder and chief science advisor of Akili Interactive Labs and JAZZ Venture Partners. Gazzaley is the inventor of the first video game approved by the FDA as a medical treatment. He is a board of trustee member, science council member and fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. He has authored over 190 scientific articles.
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Michael J. Epstein
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Michael J. Epstein, is an American filmmaker, musician, writer, and auditory scientist. Epstein has also spoken and written about the impact of local media on the arts, music service gatekeeping, effective social networking, and crowdfunding.
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Samuel Issacharoff
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- juristuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Samuel Issacharoff is an American legal scholar. His scholarly work focuses on constitutional law, voting rights and civil procedure. He is the Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law.
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Barry Grodenchik
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Barry Grodenchik is an American politician who served in the New York City Council for the 23rd district from 2015 to 2021. He is a Democrat. The district includes portions of Bayside, Queens, Bellerose, Douglaston, Floral Park, Fresh Meadows, Glen Oaks, Hollis, Hollis Hills, Holliswood, Jamaica Estates, Little Neck, Oakland Gardens and Queens Village in Queens.
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Liz Rosenberg
- Occupations
- children's writerpoetwriter
- Biography
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Lizbeth Meg Rosenberg is an American poet, novelist, children's book author and book reviewer. She is currently a professor of English at Binghamton University, and in previous years has taught at Colgate University, Sarah Lawrence College, Hamilton College, Bennington College, and Hollins College. Her children's book reviews appear monthly in The Boston Globe.
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Stanley Blumenfeld
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He formerly served as a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court from 2006 to 2020.
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Suzanne Weyn
- Occupations
- writerscience fiction writerchildren's writernovelist
- Biography
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Suzanne Weyn is an American author. She primarily writes children's and young adult science fiction and fantasy novels and has written over fifty novels and short stories. She is best known for The Bar Code Tattoo, The Bar Code Rebellion and The Bar Code Prophecy. The Bar Code Tattoo has been translated into German, and in 2007 was nominated for the Jugendliteraturpreis for youth literature given by the German government. It was a 2007 Nevada Library nominee for Young Adult literature and American Library Association 2005 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.
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Stephen Kalinich
- Occupations
- songwriter
- Biography
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Stephen John Kalinich is an American poet mostly known for his songwriting collaborations with Brian and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. In 1969, he recorded his only album, A World of Peace Must Come, with production by Brian Wilson. It was unreleased until 2008.
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Cathy Davidson
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Cathy N. Davidson is an American scholar and university professor. She is a Distinguished Professor of English, Digital Humanities, and Data Analysis and Visualization at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she founded the Futures Initiative.
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Elaine D. Kaplan
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Elaine Debra Kaplan is a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. She served as General Counsel of the United States Office of Personnel Management from 2009 to 2013, and as acting director of the office in 2013.
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Scott Zakarin
- Occupations
- film producerwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Scott Zakarin is an American film producer. He is known as the creator of the Web series medium due to his introduction of the first internet episodic website The Spot.
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Jack Dann
- Occupations
- teachernovelistwriterscience fiction writerpoet
- Biography
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Jack Dann is an American writer best known for his science fiction, as well as an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, the majority being as editor or co-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He has published nine novels, numerous shorter works of fiction, essays, and poetry, and his books have been translated into thirteen languages. His work, which includes fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism, and historical and alternative history genres, has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, J. G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick.
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Jillian York
- Occupations
- journalistopinion journalistnon-fiction writeruniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Jillian C. York is an American free-expression activist and author. She serves as Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and a founding member of Deep Lab. She is the author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism and Morocco - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture.
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Aaron Mair
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- analystenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Aaron Mair is an epidemiological-spatial analyst, environmentalist, and past president of the Sierra Club, an American environmental organization founded by preservationist John Muir in 1892. He is involved in the environmental justice movement.
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Jake Keegan
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Jake Keegan is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for USL League One side Corpus Christi FC.
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Dena DeRose
- Occupations
- pianistsingerjazz musician
- Biography
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Dena DeRose is an American jazz pianist, singer and educator. Although she began her career just as a pianist, medical problems with her hand forced her to become a vocalist as well. She has released seven solo albums.
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Yasmin Hurd
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- physicianneuroscientistteacher
- Biography
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Yasmin Hurd is the Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience and the Director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai. Hurd holds appointments as faculty of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City and is globally recognized for her translational research on the underlying neurobiology of substance use disorders and comorbid psychiatric disorders. Hurd's research on the transgenerational effects of early cannabis exposure on the developing brain and behavior and on the therapeutic properties of cannabidiol has garnered substantial media attention. In 2017, Dr. Hurd was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and, in 2022, Dr. Hurd was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Kathleen Cardone
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Kathleen Cardone is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
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Karl Larsen
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Karl Larsen is an American photographer who is known for photographing several celebrities. His best known shot is one of Paris Hilton crying in the back of a police car after she was sentenced to serve time in jail for driving while intoxicated.
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David Miner
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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David Miner, sometimes credited as David Minor, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, perhaps best known as a member of The Great Society in the 1960s. He co-founded The Great Society along with Jerry, Darby, and Grace Slick as well as Bard Du Pont, in the sense that he was there from the start. Miner sang most of the lead vocals in the early days of the band and wrote a number of songs, including "That's How It Is", "You Can't Cry", and "Daydream Nightmare Love".
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Robert Carroll
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert C. Carroll is an American politician and attorney. He is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 44th District. The district includes portions of the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Kensington, Borough Park, Victorian Flatbush, Ditmas Park, Prospect Heights and Midwood, as well as the entirety of Prospect Park.
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Eric Dinowitz
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Eric Dinowitz is an American teacher and politician. Dinowitz represents the 11th district of the New York City Council. Dinowitz is a registered Democrat. Dinowitz was elected in a special election held on March 23, 2021, after the resignation of Andrew Cohen, who was elected to the New York Supreme Court. Dinowitz assumed office on April 15, 2021 after weeks of the New York City Board of Elections counting ranked-choice voting ballots which were instituted for municipal elections beginning in 2021.
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Rebecca Leigh Longendyke
- Years
- 1996-.. (age 30)
- Occupations
- model
- Biography
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Rebecca Leigh Longendyke is an American fashion model. She has appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia three times and on the cover of Vogue Paris once.
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Camille Thurman
- Occupations
- composersinger
- Biography
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Camille Thurman is an American jazz saxophonist, singer, composer, and member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Her first two albums, released by Chesky Records in 2018 and 2017, peaked at #3 and #25 respectively on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, and was a runner up for the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition.
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Leslie G. Ungerleider
- Occupations
- neuroscientistresearcher
- Biography
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Leslie G. Ungerleider was an experimental psychologist and neuroscientist, previously Chief of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institute of Mental Health. Ungerleider was known for introducing the concepts of the dorsal (where) and ventral (what) streams, two pathways of information processing in the brain that specialize in visuospatial processing and object recognition, respectively.
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Duane James
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Duane Anthony James is a professional basketball player. He is also LeBron James' cousin.
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Bradford Gering
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in psychology and history
- Occupations
- military leader
- Biography
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Bradford J. Gering is a United States Marine Corps General who has served as the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps since October 1, 2025. He most recently served as the acting commanding general of I Marine Expeditionary Force from August 2023 to February 2024. He previously served as commanding general of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing from July 2021 to June 2023. He also served as Deputy Director of Operations of the United States Africa Command. Previously, he was the Deputy Commander of the United States Marine Corps Forces Command. In 1989, Gering was commissioned as a second lieutenant. From 2012 to 2014, he was the commanding officer of Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One at MCAS Yuma in Arizona.
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Mordechai Zaken
- Years
- 1958-2021 (aged 63)
- Occupations
- historianlinguistpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Mordechai Zaken also Moti Zaken was a historian and the 2019 laureate of "the Prime Minister Prize for the research of the Jews of the Orient." He was an expert on the Kurds and Middle Eastern minorities both as academic – he was historian of the Jews, the Kurds in Kurdistan and as professional - serving as the advisor on Israeli Arabs and minorities to the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu (1997–1999), and to the Ministry of Public Security from 2001.
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Kevin Carey
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Kevin Carey is an American higher education writer and policy analyst. He serves as Director of the Education Policy Program at New America, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. He writes regularly on education for The Upshot at the New York Times, and is guest editor of the annual Washington Monthly College Guide. He has taught education policy at Johns Hopkins University, and was a monthly columnist for six years at The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been described by New York Times Washington columnist David Leonhardt as “one of the sharpest higher education experts out there” and by Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews as “the best higher education writer in the country.”
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Norman Finkelstein
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- poetliterary criticjournalist
- Biography
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Norman Finkelstein is an American poet and literary critic. He has written extensively about modern and postmodern poetry and about Jewish American literature. According to Tablet Magazine, Finkelstein's poetry "is simultaneously secular and religious, stately and conversational, prophetic, and circumspect."
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Donna Lupardo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Donna A. Lupardo is a member of the New York State Assembly representing the 123rd Assembly District, which includes the city of Binghamton, New York, as well as the towns of Vestal, New York and Union, New York. The villages of Johnson City, New York and Endicott, New York are contained within the Town of Union and also make up part of the district.
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Simon J. Bronner
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianethnologistfolkloristsociologist
- Biography
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Simon J. Bronner is an American folklorist, ethnologist, historian, sociologist, educator, college dean, and author.
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Michael Lederer
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightpoetnovelist
- Biography
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Michael Lederer is an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist currently living in Berlin, Germany. Die Welt has called him "an archaeologist among the great American writers."
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Peter Wenz
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Peter S. Wenz is an American philosopher who specializes in environmental ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy and Legal Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
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Michele Titus
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michele R. Titus is an American politician and jurist from Queens, New York who has served as a New York City Civil Court Judge since January 2020. A Democrat, Titus previously represented District 31 in the New York State Assembly from 2002 to 2020.
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Ronald Gordon Ehrenberg
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Ronald Gordon Ehrenberg is an American economist. He has primarily worked in the field of labor economics including the economics of higher education. He is Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics Emeritus at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He is the founder-director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute and a member of the National Academy of Education.
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Peter Ungar
- Occupations
- anthropologistresearcherpaleoanthropologistpaleontologist
- Biography
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Peter S. Ungar is an American paleoanthropologist and evolutionary biologist.
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Taina Asili
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Taína Asili is an American musician, singer, songwriter, poet, artist and activist. Born in Binghamton, New York to Puerto Rican parents, she first came to prominence in the late 1990s as the singer for the punk band Anti-Product, and later for her social justice themed music with the band Taina Asili y la Banda Rebelde. Asili’s musical career has spanned genres as diverse as Afro-Caribbean music, flamenco, hardcore punk and opera, and her art is driven by her work on prisoner justice, climate justice and food justice.
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Luis Rocha
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- In 1997 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- computer scientistprofessor
- Biography
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Luis M. Rocha is the George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, Binghamton University. He is also Visiting Professor at the Católica Biomedical Research Centre, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where he is the Era Chair of the CBeRa project Strategic Integration of Complex Networks and Systems for Advancing Biomedical Research. Dr. Rocha is a founding partner of the international Center for Excellence in Mental Health Sciences, a Fulbright Scholar, and was director of the NSF-NRT Complex Networks and Systems graduate Program in Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, and senior fellow at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal. He received the Lois B. DeFleur Prize for Academic Achievement at Binghamton University in 2025, and the Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006 and 2015 at Indiana University. His research is on complex systems and networks, computational and systems biology, biomedical complexity and digital health, and computational intelligence (including Artificial Life and Embodied Cognition).
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Nancy Mercado
- Occupations
- translatorliterary critic
- Biography
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Nancy Mercado is an American writer, editor, educator and activist; her work focuses on issues of injustice, the environment, and the Puerto Rican and Latino experience in the United States. She forms part of the Nuyorican Movement, a literary genre which arose from the Beat Movement.
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Eric P. Schwartz
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 69)
- Biography
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Eric Paul Schwartz is the former president of Refugees International and former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration.
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Amy J. Hyatt
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Amy Jane Hyatt is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Palau from 2015 to 2020. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in December 2014.
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Monique Holsey-Hyman
- Occupations
- professorsocial workerpolitician
- Biography
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Monique Holsey-Hyman is an American social worker, professor, and politician. Prior to her work in politics and academia, Holsey-Hyman worked as a social worker in New York City. She was a caseworker for the New York City Human Resources Administration, served as Director of the Intensive Care Management Program at the Steinway Child and Family Services Center of Queens, served as the Bronx Director of Case Management, and was the Center Director for the Community Healthcare Network. Holsey-Hyman also served as a consultant for Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers, Brooklyn Hospital Center, and the New York City Housing Authority.
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Stan
- Occupations
- novelistadapterrole-playing game designer
- Biography
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Stan! is an American author, cartoonist, and game designer. He is sometimes credited as Stan Brown.
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Bruce Kershner
- Years
- 1950-2007 (aged 57)
- Occupations
- writerenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Bruce S. Kershner was an environmentalist, author, high school biology teacher and forest ecologist.
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Shara McCallum
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Shara McCallum is an American poet. She was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. McCallum is the author of four collections of poems, including Madwoman, which won the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the poetry category. She currently lives in Pennsylvania.
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Sari Feldman
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Sari Feldman is an American librarian who served as president of the American Library Association from 2015 to 2016. During her presidency, she launched the Libraries Transform public awareness campaign that increased funding support for libraries and sought to advance information policy.
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Rob Kirkpatrick
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- historianmusic criticjournalist
- Biography
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Rob Kirkpatrick is an American literary agent, editor, and author. He has published the books of many well-known authors, primarily in the field of nonfiction. He is the author of the narrative history 1969: The Year Everything Changed.
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Peter Guttman
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Peter Guttman is an American author, photographer, lecturer, television personality and adventurer, was named a Fellow of the Explorers Club, and has traveled on assignment through over 250 countries across seven continents.
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Scott Donnelly
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football coach
- Biography
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Scott Donnelly is an American soccer player, coach and scout.
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Roger Lee Hall
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Roger Lee Hall is an American composer and musicologist.
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Marc Huestis
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Marc Huestis is an American filmmaker, camp impresario and social activist. He is best known for his motion picture Sex Is... and his in-person tributes/benefit events feting celebrities from Hollywood's Golden Age and cult personas at San Francisco's Castro Theatre.
