51 Notable alumni of
Claremont Graduate University
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Claremont Graduate University is 1063rd in the world, 385th in North America, and 362nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 51 notable alumni from Claremont Graduate University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Tom Cotton
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- Studied in 1998-1999
- Occupations
- business consultantlawyerfarmerpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Bryant Cotton is an American politician and former Army officer serving since 2015 as the junior United States senator from Arkansas. From 2013 to 2015 he served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arkansas's 4th congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Srettha Thavisin
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Srettha Thavisin is a Thai businessman and former politician who served as the 30th prime minister of Thailand from 2023 until his removal from office in 2024. In 1988, he co-founded Sansiri, a venture that propelled him to become a billionaire and a leading real estate tycoon within his country.
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James Turrell
- Occupations
- architectural draftspersonenvironmental artistinstallation artistmathematicianpsychologist
- Biography
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James Turrell is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. He is considered the "master of light" often creating art installations that mix natural light with artificial color through openings in ceilings thereby transforming internal spaces by ever shifting and changing color.
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Hashim Djojohadikusumo
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Hashim Sujono Djojohadikusumo is an Indonesian entrepreneur and politician who is the younger brother of Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto. In 2014, he was considered a billionaire. As of December 2020, Forbes estimates his net worth at $800 million.
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John C. Eastman
- Occupations
- juristacademic administratoruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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John Charles Eastman is an American lawyer and academic. He is known for his efforts to block certification and overturn the results of the 2020 United States presidential election.
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Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- 1994-1996 graduated with Master of Arts in international political economy
- Occupations
- academic administratorpolitician
- Biography
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Deborah Mucarsel-Powell is an American politician and academic administrator who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 26th congressional district from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented a district in the southern Miami-Dade County, including Homestead and the Florida Keys.
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Abdulla Yameen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom is a Maldivian politician who served as president of the Maldives from 2013 to 2018.
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Michael Anton
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 57)
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- speechwriterpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Michael Anton is a conservative writer and bureaucrat.
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Paul H. O'Neill
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Paul Henry O'Neill was an American businessman and government official who served as the 72nd United States secretary of the treasury for part of President George W. Bush's first term, from January 2001 until his resignation in December 2002. Prior to his term as Secretary, O'Neill was chairman and CEO of industrial giant Alcoa and chairman of the RAND Corporation.
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David Ray Griffin
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- In 1970 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- theologianphilosopherwriter
- Biography
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David Ray Griffin was an American professor of philosophy of religion and theology and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Along with John B. Cobb, Jr., he founded the Center for Process Studies in 1973, a research center of Claremont School of Theology that promotes process thought. Griffin published numerous books about the September 11 attacks, claiming that elements of the Bush administration were involved. An advocate of the controlled demolition conspiracy theory, he was a founder member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.
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Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Occupations
- Buddhist monk
- Biography
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Jeffrey Block, better known as Bhikkhu Bodhi, is an American Theravada monk ordained in Sri Lanka who teaches in the area of New York and New Jersey. He is an author and Buddhist commentator and was appointed the second president of the Buddhist Publication Society. He is also the president of the Buddhist Association of America and the founder of Buddhist Global Relief.
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David Dreier
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- In 1976 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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David Timothy Dreier OAE is an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from California from 1981 to 2013. He was one of the youngest members ever elected to the United States Congress. Dreier was the youngest chairman of the House Rules Committee. He was closely involved in passing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993. After leaving Congress, Dreier served on the Foreign Affairs Policy Board under President Barack Obama. He served as the chairman of the Tribune Publishing Company from 2019 to 2020. Dreier is also founder and chair of the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation.
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John Long
- Occupations
- mountaineer
- Biography
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John Long is an American rock climber and author. His stories have been translated into many languages.
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Jerry Voorhis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis was an American politician and educator who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives representing California from 1937 to 1947. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the 12th congressional district in Los Angeles County. He was the first political opponent of Richard M. Nixon, who defeated Voorhis for re-election in 1946 in a campaign cited as the first example of Nixon's use of red-baiting tactics during his political rise.
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Ian Fowles
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- television actorguitaristmusician
- Biography
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Ian Fowles is an American musician, author, and actor, best known as the current guitarist for the Orange County rock band The Aquabats, in which he performs under the stage name and persona of EagleBones Falconhawk. Prior to joining The Aquabats, Fowles was also one of the founding members of the hardcore punk band Death by Stereo.
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David Keirsey
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychologistnon-fiction writer
- Biography
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David West Keirsey was an American psychologist, a professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of several books. In his most popular publications, Please Understand Me (1978, co-authored by Marilyn Bates) and the revised and expanded second volume Please Understand Me II (1998), he laid out a self-assessed personality questionnaire, known as the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, which links human behavioral patterns to four temperaments and sixteen character types. Both volumes of Please Understand Me contain the questionnaire for type evaluation with detailed portraits and a systematic treatment of descriptions of temperament traits and personality characteristics. With a focus on conflict management and cooperation, Keirsey specialized in family and partnership counseling and the coaching of children and adults.
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Gary Chartier
- Occupations
- bloggerphilosopher
- Biography
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Gary William Chartier is an American legal scholar, philosopher, political theorist, and theologian. His work addresses anarchism and ethics. Chartier is a professor and serves as associate dean of La Sierra University's business school.
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Diane Watson
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- In 1987 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticiandiplomathealth administratorpsychologist
- Biography
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Diane Edith Watson is a former American politician who served as US Representative for California's 33rd congressional district, serving from 2003 until 2011, after first being elected in the 32nd District in a 2001 special election. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is located entirely in Los Angeles County and includes much of Central Los Angeles, as well as such wealthy neighborhoods as Los Feliz.
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William B. Allen
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopherpolitician
- Biography
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William Barclay Allen is an American author, professor, and political scientist from Fernandina Beach, Florida. He was a member of the National Council on the Humanities from 1984 to 1987 and chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1988 to 1989. Allen ran as a Republican for a U.S. Senate seat in California in 1986 and 1992, losing in the primary election each time. Allen has been described as a "conservative black leader in education."
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Philippe Maystadt
- Occupations
- juristlawyeruniversity teacherfinancierpolitician
- Biography
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Philippe M.P.J. Maystadt was a Belgian politician who served as Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister. He was President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2000 to 2011.
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Lewis Baltz
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Lewis "Duke" Baltz was an American visual artist, photographer, and educator. He was an important figure in the New topographics movement of the late 1970s and was one of the photographers featured in the seminal New Topographics exhibition at the Eastman House. His best known work was monochrome photography of suburban landscapes and industrial parks which highlighted his commentary of void within the "American Dream".
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Angelo Codevilla
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitical scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Angelo Maria Codevilla was an Italian American professor of international relations at what is now the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He served as a United States Navy officer, a foreign service officer, and professional staff member of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate. Codevilla's books and articles range from French and Italian politics to the thoughts of Machiavelli and Montesquieu to arms control, war, the technology of ballistic missile defenses, and a broad range of international topics. Articles by Codevilla have appeared in Commentary, Foreign Affairs, National Review, and The New Republic. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator and The Washington Post. He has also been published in Political Science Reviewer, Intercollegiate Review, and Politica.
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Ayanna Howard
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 54)
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- In 2005 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineerroboticistartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Ayanna MacCalla Howard is an American roboticist, entrepreneur, and educator currently serving as the dean of the College of Engineering at Ohio State University. Assuming this role in March 2021, Howard became the first woman to lead the Ohio State College of Engineering.
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Thomas Jay Oord
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- philosophertheologian
- Biography
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Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and multidisciplinary scholar who directs doctoral programs in Open and Relational Theology at Northwind Theological Seminary and directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He formerly taught for sixteen years as a tenured professor at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, and as a philosophy professor at Eastern Nazarene College Quincy, Mass. Oord is the author or editor of more than thirty books and hundreds of articles. He is known for his contributions to research on love, open theism, process theism, open and relational theology, postmodernism, queer theology, the relationship between religion and science, Wesleyan, holiness, and LGBTQ+ advocacy.
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Stephen Cambone
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in political science
- Graduated with Master of Arts in political science
- Biography
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Stephen Anthony Cambone was the first United States Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, a post created in March 2003. Cambone first came to the attention of the public at large during the testimony of Major General Antonio Taguba before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, where he disputed the General's statement that prison guards were under the effective control of military intelligence personnel and interrogators. Cambone resigned at the beginning of 2007 and was replaced by James R. Clapper, Jr., former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Cambone was associated with the Project for the New American Century, participating in the study which resulted in the writing of the report Rebuilding America's Defenses.
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Monica A. Coleman
- Occupations
- authortheologian
- Biography
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Monica A. Coleman is a contemporary theologian associated with process theology and womanist theology. She is currently Professor of Africana Studies and the John and Patricia Cochran Scholar for Inclusive Excellence at the University of Delaware, as well as the Faculty Co-Director Emerita for the Center for Process Studies. Her research interests include Whiteheadian metaphysics, constructive theology, philosophical theology, metaphorical theology, black and womanist theologies, African American religions, African traditional religions, theology and sexual and domestic violence, and mental health and theology. Coleman is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Sacvan Bercovitch
- Occupations
- literary historianliterary critic
- Biography
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Sacvan Bercovitch was a Canadian literary and cultural critic who spent most of his life teaching and writing in the United States. During an academic career spanning five decades, he was considered to be one of the most influential and controversial figures of his generation in the emerging field of American studies.
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Yaou Aïssatou
- Occupations
- ministerpoliticianhuman rights defenderbusinesspersoneconomist
- Biography
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Yaou Aïssatou is the Director General of Cameroon's National Investment Corporation (NIS). She was also Cameroon's first Minister of Women's Affairs.
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Damian Vaughn
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Damian Medeiros da Silva Vaughn is an American former professional football tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals (1998–2000) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2001–2002). As the first Brazilian NFL player, Vaughn has made efforts to promote awareness and interest in American football among Brazilians, including a trip to Brazil with Tony Gonzalez in 2003. Following his career in football, Vaughn has remained active in the athletics world by founding the Vaughn Center, which offers meditation and leadership training for athletes.
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Greg Colson
- Occupations
- printmakerpainter
- Biography
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Greg Colson is an American artist known for his works and sculptures using scavenged materials.
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Lisa Adams
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Lisa Adams is an American painter who emerged in the mid-1980s. She is best known for her oil paintings of imaginary worlds that address both personal and collective realities. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the public collections of LACMA, Eli Broad (corporate collection), the Denver Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum and the Laguna Museum of Art. She lives and works in downtown Los Angeles, California.
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Harrison McIntosh
- Occupations
- ceramicistartist
- Biography
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Harrison Edward McIntosh was an American ceramic artist. He was an exponent of the Mid-century Modern style of ceramics, featuring simple symmetrical forms. His work has been exhibited in venues in the United States including the Smithsonian and internationally including at the Louvre in France.
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Jack Scott
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Jack Alan Scott is an American educator and former Democratic politician. Currently, a scholar in residence at Claremont Graduate University, Scott earlier served as president at two California community colleges, member of the California State Assembly and California State Senate and Chancellor of the California Community Colleges System.
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John G. West
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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John Gilbert West is a senior fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, and associate director and vice president for public policy and legal affairs of its Center for Science and Culture (CSC), which serves as the main hub of the intelligent design movement.
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Tasha Boerner Horvath
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tasha Nicolle Boerner is an American politician serving since 2018 as a member of the California State Assembly. A Democrat, she represents the 77th Assembly district, which encompasses coastal parts of northern San Diego County and the city of San Diego, including Carlsbad, Encinitas, Solana Beach, Del Mar, and the coastal communities of La Jolla south to Downtown and Coronado. Prior to being elected to the State Assembly, she served on the Encinitas City Council.
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Jonathan D. Farrar
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Jonathan Don Farrar was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama from 2012 to 2015. He was previously the Chief of Mission of the United States Interests Section in Havana, Cuba, from July 2008 to September 2011.
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Seth Leibsohn
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Seth Leibsohn is a conservative talk show host and author. He is also a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and was the producer for Bill Bennett's Morning in America, a syndicated talk show in the 2000s. Most recently he was the co-host, along with Chris Buskirk, of the Phoenix-based talk show, The Seth and Chris Show. He resigned from the show in order to run for the House Seat vacated by Kyrsten Sinema. However, when the consulting group his campaign hired to spearhead the campaign failed to collect the required number of signatures to appear on the ballot, he was forced to withdraw from the race. Currently, he hosts The Seth Leibsohn Show..
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Armen Orujyan
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- politicianscientist
- Biography
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Armen Orujyan is an Armenian-American entrepreneur, an architect of innovation ecosystems and the Founder and CEO of Curio Ventures. He founded the youth entrepreneurship platform Athgo and served as its chairman for almost two decades. In 2012 he was appointed co‑chair of the United Nations’ Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID) and joined the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development as a commissioner. In 2017 he became the founding chief executive officer of the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST), a non‑profit organisation working to develop Armenia's science and technology ecosystem. Orujyan served as FAST's CEO until 2025, when he joined its board of trustees.
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Jack Cuzick
- Occupations
- mathematicianepidemiologist
- Biography
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Sir Jack Martin Cuzick is an American-born British academic, director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London and head of the Centre for Cancer Prevention. He is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London.
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Suzanne Muchnic
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 86)
- Occupations
- opinion journalistart criticwriterjournalistart historian
- Biography
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Suzanne Muchnic is an art writer who was a staff art reporter and art critic at the Los Angeles Times for 31 years. She has also written books on artists, collectors, and museums.
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Kate Gale
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- librettistpoetwriter
- Biography
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Kate Gale is an American author, poet, librettist, and independent publisher. She is the publisher of Red Hen Press.
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Ronald F. Lehman
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- scholar
- Biography
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Ronald Frank Lehman II is currently Director of the Center for Global Security Research at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is also Chair of the Governing Board of International Science and Technology Center, an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Moscow and is a member of the Department of Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee.
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Susan Orr
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 66)
- Biography
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Susan Orr headed the United States Children's Bureau, a federal agency organized under the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, Administration for Children and Families, as Associate Commissioner.
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Jean Maria Arrigo
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Jean Maria Arrigo was an American social psychologist and oral historian.
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Ferne Jacobs
- Occupations
- artisttextile artist
- Biography
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Ferne Jacobs, who is also known as Ferne K. Jacobs and Ferne Kent Jacobs is an American fiber artist and basket maker.
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Luis Aguilar-Monsalve
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Luis Aguilar Monsalve is a distinguished Ecuadorian writer, critic, and professor emeritus at Hanover College in the United States. He is a member of the Ecuadorian Academy of Language (Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua).
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Mark Li
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Mark Li is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Kuomintang, he served in the Legislative Yuan from 2008 to 2012.
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James Brenneman
- Biography
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James E. Brenneman is the president of Berkeley School of Theology, Berkeley, CA, one of the founding seminaries of the Graduate Theological Union. Prior to coming to Berkeley School of Theology in 2017, Jim was the twelfth president of Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana from 2006 to 2017.
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Laura Myntti
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Laura Myntti is an American artist known for her paintings, etchings, and in situ drawings; she also works with found objects, mosaics, and photo collage.
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Benjamin Saltman
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Benjamin Saltman was an American poet and Professor of verse writing and contemporary American literature at California State University, Northridge. The Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award is given annually by Red Hen Press in his honor.
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Eugene S. Mills
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Eugene Sumner Mills was an American academic. He was the thirteenth President of the University of New Hampshire from 1974 to 1979. Mills attended Earlham College and Claremont Graduate University, earning a Ph.D. in psychology at the latter. He taught at Whittier College before coming to the University of New Hampshire. Mills was a member of the UNH faculty for 17 years starting in 1962 as professor and chairman for the Department of Psychology, finishing up with his presidency. Mills then went on to serve as the president of Whittier College from 1979 to 1989, and interim president of Earlham College from 1996 to 1997.
