53 Notable alumni of
Claremont Graduate University
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Claremont Graduate University is 1018th in the world, 373rd in North America, and 351st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 53 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
- lawyerbusiness consultantpoliticianfarmer
- Biography
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Thomas Bryant Cotton is an American politician, attorney, and former military officer serving as the junior United States senator from Arkansas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015.
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James Turrell
- Occupations
- photographerpsychologistmathematicianinstallation artistenvironmental artist
- Biography
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James Turrell is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. Much of Turrell's career has been devoted to a still-unfinished work, Roden Crater, a natural cinder cone crater located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, that he is turning into a massive naked-eye observatory; and for his series of skyspaces, enclosed spaces that frame the sky.
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Srettha Thavisin
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Srettha Thavisin, nicknamed Nid (Thai: นิด, RTGS: Nit, pronounced [nít]), is a Thai businessman and politician currently serving as the prime minister of Thailand since 22 August 2023. He was previously the chief executive and president of Sansiri.
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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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John C. Eastman
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacheracademicacademic administratorjurist
- Biography
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John Charles Eastman is an American lawyer and former academic. He is the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public-interest law firm affiliated with the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank. He is a former professor and former dean at Chapman University School of Law. He ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for California's 34th congressional district in 1990, and for California Attorney General in 2010. He is a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Eastman has been criminally indicted in Georgia and is facing disbarment proceedings in California for his role in assisting then-president Donald Trump's attempts to undo the 2020 election results, including by pressuring vice president Mike Pence to reject the votes of electors from crucial swing states that Joe Biden won while certifying the 2020 United States presidential election. He is also suspected of being a co-conspirator in the federal indictment of Donald Trump.
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Hashim Djojohadikusumo
- Occupations
- international forum participantentrepreneur
- Biography
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Hashim Djojohadikusumo is an Indonesian entrepreneur and politician.
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Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Debbie Jessika Mucarsel-Powell is an Ecuadorian-born American politician and academic administrator who served as a U.S. representative for Florida's 26th congressional district from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, her district covered the southern part of Miami-Dade County, including Homestead, as well as the Florida Keys. Mucarsel-Powell was the first Ecuadorian American and first South American-born immigrant to serve as a member of the U.S. Congress.
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Paul H. O'Neill
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- 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 to December 2002. Secretary Paul H. O'Neill resigned from the Treasury Department on December 6, 2002. Prior to his term as secretary of the treasury, O'Neill was chairman and CEO of industrial giant Alcoa and chairman of the RAND Corporation.
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Michael Anton
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- political scientistspeechwriter
- Biography
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Michael Anton is an American conservative essayist, speechwriter and former private-equity executive who was a senior national security official in the Trump administration. Under a pseudonym he wrote "The Flight 93 Election", an influential essay in support of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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David Ray Griffin
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- In 1970 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- theologianwriterphilosopher
- 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
- Bhikkhu
- Biography
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Bhikkhu Bodhi, born Jeffrey Block, is an American Theravada Buddhist monk ordained in Sri Lanka. He teaches in the New York and New Jersey area. He was appointed the second president of the Buddhist Publication Society and has edited and authored several publications grounded in the Theravada Buddhist tradition.
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David Dreier
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- In 1976 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- 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 in U.S. history, serving from 1999 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2013. He was instrumental 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 a Democratic politician and educator from California who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947, representing 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 an example of Nixon's use of red-baiting during his political rise.
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Gary Chartier
- Occupations
- philosopherblogger
- Biography
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Gary William Chartier is a 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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David Keirsey
- Occupations
- academicuniversity teachernon-fiction writerpsychologist
- 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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Ian Fowles
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- musicianguitaristtelevision actor
- 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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Diane Watson
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- In 1987 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianuniversity teacherpsychologisthealth administrator
- 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
- philosopher
- Biography
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William Barclay Allen is an 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 has been described as a "conservative black leader in education."
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Philippe Maystadt
- Occupations
- university teacherlawyerjuristbankerpolitician
- 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. 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
- diplomatpoliticianpolitical scientist
- 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 U.S. 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 52)
- Enrolled in Claremont Graduate University
- In 2005 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientistartificial intelligence researcherroboticist
- 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 the post 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 59)
- Occupations
- theologianphilosopher
- Biography
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Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and multidisciplinary scholar who directs a doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary and 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 before that a philosophy professor at Eastern Nazarene College. 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, the relationship between religion and science, Wesleyan, holiness, Nazarene theology.
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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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Michael Crooke
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Michael W. Crooke is an American businessman and academic. Crooke was CEO of Patagonia, Inc. from 1999 to 2005. From 2010 to 2015, Crooke served on the faculty of Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management. Crooke also worked at the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business from 2015-2017.
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Monica A. Coleman
- Occupations
- theologianauthor
- 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 criticliterary historian
- 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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Greg Colson
- Occupations
- painterprintmaker
- Biography
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Greg Colson is an American artist best known for his works that straddle the line between painting and sculpture, which address concepts of efficiency and order. Using scavenged materials, Colson allows the physicality of his makeshift constructions to intrude on the precise systems he paints or draws upon their surfaces - striking a balance between subject and context, image and support, order and chaos.
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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, 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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Yaou Aïssatou
- Occupations
- economisthuman rights activistpoliticianbusinessperson
- 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
- player of American football
- Biography
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Damian Medeiros da Silva Vaughn is a former American football tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals (1998–2000) and the 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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Harrison McIntosh
- Occupations
- artistceramicist
- 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
- politicianteacher
- 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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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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John G. West
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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John G. 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 pseudoscientific Intelligent design movement.
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Suzanne Muchnic
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 84)
- Occupations
- writerart criticopinion journalistart historianjournalist
- 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 59)
- Occupations
- librettistwriterpoet
- Biography
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Kate Gale is an American author, poet, librettist, and independent publisher. She is the managing editor of Red Hen Press.
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Jack Cuzick
- Occupations
- mathematicianepidemiologist
- Biography
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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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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 on KKNT in Phoenix.
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Armen Orujyan
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Armen Orujyan is an Armenian-American entrepreneur and an architect of innovation ecosystems. He is the founding CEO of the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST) and the founder and former chairman of Athgo.
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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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Ambassador 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 64)
- 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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Rudolph G. Wilson
- Occupations
- professorwriter
- Biography
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Rudolph G. Wilson was an American professor, writer, storyteller, and public speaker, known by his students as Papa Rudy. He was the first African-American member, and later the first elected black president, of the Edwardsville School Board. At Claremont Grad School in 1965, he was the first African American to teach in an all-white school. He was, until retirement in 2009, the assistant provost for Cultural and Social Diversity at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, as well as holding the academic rank of associate professor of secondary education in the department of curriculum and instruction.
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Ferne Jacobs
- Occupations
- textile artistartist
- 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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Jean Maria Arrigo
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Jean Maria Arrigo is an American social psychologist and oral historian.
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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 sixteenth president of Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana. Originally from Kalona, Iowa, Jim grew up attending school and church in Ybor City, the Cuban quarter of Tampa, Florida. Jim is an ordained Mennonite minister and was the founding and lead pastor of Pasadena Mennonite Church (Pasadena8, CA) from 1986-2006. He also served on the faculty of the Episcopal Theological School at Claremont for 15 years, where he taught Hebrew Bible. He lived in South Pasadena, CA for 26 years prior to moving to Goshen, Indiana in 2006, returning to CA in 2017. He and his wife, Terri J. Plank Brenneman, a clinical psychologist, have one son, Quinn Miguel Plank Brenneman. On December 31, 2006, Brenneman was selected by the Elkhart Truth to be one of the "Ten People to Watch in 2007".
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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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Luis Aguilar-Monsalve
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Luis Aguilar Monsalve is an Ecuadorian writer, critic, and professor emeritus at Hanover College in the United States.
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Mark Li
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- 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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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.
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Tasha Boerner Horvath
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tasha Nicolle Boerner is an American politician who is serving in 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.
