100 Notable alumni of
Binghamton University
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Binghamton University is 599th in the world, 221st in North America, and 204th 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
- film produceractortelevision actorscreenwritermodel
- Biography
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William Joseph 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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Karthi was born as Karthik Sivakumar on 25 May 1977 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India to actor Sivakumar and his wife Lakshmi. He completed his elementary and secondary school education at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan and St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Chennai. He gained a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Crescent Engineering College, Chennai. After graduation, he worked as an Engineering consultant in Chennai and considered higher studies abroad. "I was earning about ₹ 5000 per month and found the work monotonous. That was when I thought, I should do something more", he recalled in an interview. Karthi got a scholarship for his higher studies in the United States, and enrolled at Binghamton University, New York, where he earned his Master of Science in industrial engineering. While pursuing his master's degree, he also took elective courses on filmmaking.
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Paul Reiser
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- writerpianistcomposeractorstage actor
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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
- politicianclerklawyer
- 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. He has been the U.S. representative for New York's 8th congressional district since 2013 and was a member of the New York State Assembly from 2007 to 2012.
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Dave Rubin
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- In 1998 studied political science
- Occupations
- television producerpolitical punditradio personalityYouTuberpodcaster
- Biography
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David Joshua Rubin is an American libertarian-conservative political commentator. He is the creator and host of The Rubin Report, a political talk show on YouTube and on the network BlazeTV. Launched in 2013, his show was originally part of TYT Network, until he left in 2015, in part due to widening ideological differences. Previously, Rubin, who is gay, hosted LGBT-themed talk shows, including The Ben and Dave Show from 2007 to 2008 and The Six Pack from 2009 to 2012, both of which he co-hosted with Ben Harvey. Rubin has written two books.
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Norman Finkelstein
- Occupations
- historianhuman rights activistpolitical scientistwriteruniversity teacher
- 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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Sunny Hostin
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenterlawyer
- 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
- art historianliterary criticjournalistuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Camille Anna Paglia is an American academic, social critic and anti-feminist 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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Art Spiegelman
- Occupations
- draftspersonprintmakercomics artisteditorillustrator
- Biography
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Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman, professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is an 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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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. Vindman is currently director of the think tank Institute for Informed American Leadership (IIAL). Vindman came to national attention in October 2019 when he testified before the United States Congress regarding the Trump–Ukraine scandal. His testimony provided evidence that resulted in a charge of abuse of power in the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
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Ingrid Michaelson
- Occupations
- musicianlyricistpianistcomposersinger-songwriter
- 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
- color commentatorjournalistsports columnist
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Anthony Irwin Kornheiser is an American television sports talk show host 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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Ruben Santiago-Hudson
- Occupations
- voice actorscreenwritertheatrical directorplaywrightfilm 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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Carol Leifer
- Occupations
- actortelevision producerscreenwriterfilm directortelevision actor
- 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. She has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for The Larry Sanders Show, Seinfeld, the 82nd Academy Awards and the 84th Academy Awards. Leifer's inner-monologue driven, observational style is often autobiographical, encompassing subjects about her Jewish ancestry and upbringing, coming out, same-sex marriage, relationships (having been married previously to a man and now married to a woman) and parenting.
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Kvitka Cisyk
- Occupations
- opera singersingeractor
- 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
- visual artistsingercinematographerrecord producercomposer
- 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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Andy Kindler
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actorcomedianvoice 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 sportswriter "Ray Barone" (Ray Romano) on the TV show 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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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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Morteza Aghatehrani
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Morteza Aghatehrani is an Iranian Shia cleric and conservative 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 form 2008 to 2016.
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Steven Fulop
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Steven Michael Fulop is an American politician serving as the 49th mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey. A Democrat, he was formerly the Councilman for Jersey City's Ward E. On May 14, 2013, Fulop defeated incumbent mayor Jerramiah Healy.
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M. Stanley Whittingham
- Occupations
- engineeruniversity teacherchemist
- 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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Deborah Tannen
- Occupations
- university teacherlinguist
- 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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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 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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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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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
- judgeprosecutorlawyer
- 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 USCF Candidate Master from New York City, known for his appearances on many American game shows.
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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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Linda Arrigo
- Enrolled in Binghamton University
- 1983-1996 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- 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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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 55)
- 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
- university teacherfilm criticjournalistfilm theorist
- 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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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 45)
- 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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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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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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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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Alan Berliner
- Occupations
- film directorinstallation artistnew media artist
- 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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Jason Starr
- Occupations
- writernovelistscreenwriter
- 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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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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John Mannion
- Occupations
- politician
- 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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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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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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Liz Rosenberg
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writerpoet
- 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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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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Cathy Davidson
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Cathy N. Davidson is an American scholar and university professor. Beginning July 1, 2014, she is a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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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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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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Scott Zakarin
- Occupations
- writerfilm directorfilm producer
- 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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Elaine D. Kaplan
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Elaine Debra Kaplan is the chief 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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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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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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Jack Dann
- Occupations
- poetteachernovelistwriterscience fiction writer
- 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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Samuel Issacharoff
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- 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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Dena DeRose
- Occupations
- pianistjazz 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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Jake Keegan
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Jake Keegan is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward.
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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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Helaine Selin
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Helaine Selin is an American librarian, historian of science, author and book editor.
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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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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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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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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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Rebecca Leigh Longendyke
- Years
- 1996-.. (age 29)
- 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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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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Mordechai Zaken
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- 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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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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Norman Finkelstein
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- journalistpoetliterary critic
- 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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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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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
- folkloristsociologistuniversity teacherhistorianethnologist
- 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. Currently, he is Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University. He is also the founder-director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute.
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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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Peter Ungar
- Occupations
- paleoanthropologistpaleontologistanthropologistresearcher
- Biography
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Peter S. Ungar is an American paleoanthropologist and evolutionary biologist.
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Eric P. Schwartz
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 68)
- 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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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 has been director of the NSF-NRT Complex Networks and Systems graduate Program in Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He is also director of the Center for Social and Biomedical Complexity, between Binghamton University and Indiana University, Bloomington, a Fulbright Scholar, and Principal Investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal. 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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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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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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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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Stan
- Occupations
- role-playing game designernovelist
- 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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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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Bradford Gering
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 58)
- 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 lieutenant general who has served as the deputy commandant for aviation of the United States Marine Corps since February 2024. 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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Rob Kirkpatrick
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- music criticjournalisthistorian
- 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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Monique Holsey-Hyman
- Occupations
- social workerpoliticianprofessor
- 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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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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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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Scott Donnelly
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- 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.
