28 Notable alumni of
Nova Southeastern University
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Nova Southeastern University is 1514th in the world, 522nd in North America, and 490th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 28 notable alumni from Nova Southeastern 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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Seth Gabel
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Seth Gabel is an American actor. He is known for his roles of agent Lincoln Lee on Fox's television series Fringe, Cotton Mather on WGN America's series Salem, and Adrian Moore on the FX series Nip/Tuck. He is a grand-nephew of actor Martin Gabel.
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Somy Ali
- Occupations
- modelfilm directorjournalistactor
- Biography
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Somy Ali is a Pakistani-American actress, writer, filmmaker, model and activist who has worked in Bollywood films. She runs a non-profit organization named No More Tears since 2007.
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Will Kirby
- Occupations
- reality television participantphysician
- Biography
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William Terence Kirby, popularly known as Dr. Will, is an American aesthetic dermatologist, an associate clinical professor of dermatology, and a reality television personality. He is known for winning the CBS reality show Big Brother 2 as well as winning The Price Is Right and appearing on the Star Wars television series The Book of Boba Fett as Karales the Bounty Hunter.
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Isabel Saint Malo
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Isabel de Saint Malo García de Alvarado is a Panamanian politician and diplomat. She formerly was the vice president of Panama and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1 July 2014, to 30 June 2019. De Saint Malo ran with elected President Juan Carlos Varela, on the ticket made up of an alliance of the Panameñista Party and the People's Party. She is the first woman in Panama's history elected for this post and the first woman to be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in Panama.
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Brenda Snipes
- Occupations
- teacherofficial
- Biography
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Brenda Calhoun Snipes was an American public official who was the Supervisor of Elections for Broward County, Florida. She was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush in 2003. Snipes was registered as a Democrat.
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Syra Madad
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 40)
- Enrolled in Nova Southeastern University
- Graduated with Doctor of Health Science in health sciences and global health
- Occupations
- pathogen preparedness expert
- Biography
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Syra Madad is an American pathogen preparedness expert, and biosecurity advisor. Madad is the Chief Biopreparedness Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals where she was part of the executive leadership team which oversaw New York City's response to the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in the city's 11 public hospitals. She was featured in the Netflix documentary series Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak and the Discovery Channel documentary The Vaccine: Conquering COVID. Madad has been at the forefront of numerous outbreak responses, including Ebola, Zika, Measles, COVID-19, and MPox, developing strategies for prevention, preparedness, mitigation, and recovery. She is also a Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in the Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy (DETS) program, where she founded and moderates the Women in STEM and Diversity in STEM series. She also serves as Core Faculty at the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) and Affiliate Faculty at Boston University's Center for Emerging Infectious Disease Policy & Research.
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Carlos Asuaje
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Carlos Alberto Asuaje Ciafre is a Venezuelan-American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and in the KBO League for the Lotte Giants.
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Geovanni Gopradi
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Geovannie Gomez, known professionally as Geovanni Gopradi, is an American actor and producer.
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Louie L. Wainwright
- Biography
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Louie Lee Wainwright was an American corrections administrator who served as Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections from 1962 to 1987. He is known for having been the named respondent in two U.S. Supreme Court cases: Gideon v. Wainwright in which indigents are guaranteed an attorney, and Ford v. Wainwright, in which the Court approved the common law rule prohibiting the execution of the insane. Time called the Gideon decision one of the ten most important legal events of the 1960s. He also appeared as the respondent in a number of habeas corpus petitions that reached the Supreme Court level during his tenure in office, making "Wainwright" one of the most familiar names to students of habeas corpus law.
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Ariana Fajardo Orshan
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Ariana Fajardo Orshan is an American Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. She previously served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida from 2018 to 2021. Prior to this, she had been a Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida from 2012 to 2018.
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Michelle Fraley
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Michelle Fraley is a retired military officer and was the Superintendent of the Puerto Rico Police. Fraley is also the first Puerto Rican woman to graduate from West Point Military Academy and the first woman to hold the aforementioned post of superintendent. She is also the former chief of staff of the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command. Academically, Fraley holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Nova Southeastern University, a Master of Arts (M.A.) in International Relations and Affairs from Troy University, and a Ph.D. in organizational leadership from the University of Phoenix.
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Ana Maria Rodriguez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ana María Rodríguez is a Republican member of the Florida Senate, representing the 40th district encompassing Monroe and parts of Miami-Dade Counties since 2020.
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Edie Rodriguez
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Edie Rodriguez is an American businesswoman and travel industry executive. She has held executive or board member positions with a number of travel industry corporations, especially in the area of cruise lines and luxury products.
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Megan Squire
- Enrolled in Nova Southeastern University
- 1997-2000 graduated with Master of Science in computer science
- 2000-2003 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in computer science
- Occupations
- political writerpolitical analystcomputer scientistactivistdata scientist
- Biography
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Megan Squire is a data science researcher and expert in cybersecurity and political extremism. She currently works for a company that makes IT security software; previously she was the deputy director for data analytics and open source intelligence at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Earlier in her career, she was a professor of computer science at Elon University and an Anti-Defamation League fellow with a focus on right-wing political extremism online. Her work has been described as operating as an intermediary between non-profits like the Southern Poverty Law Center and militant groups on the far-left.
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Olivia Peguero
- Occupations
- sculptorpainterbotanical illustrator
- Biography
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Olivia Peguero is a Dominican and American contemporary landscape and botanical painter and sculptor. Painting most of the year in the Dominican Republic and Florida, she is known for producing all of her studies and the majority of her finished pieces en plein air. Unlike many other Dominican artists, her works are created in oil paint, using a more traditional European-style, many times depicting life as birth, existence and death within her flowers. Two common themes present in Peguero art are the conservation of old growth Dominican forests and pride in Dominican heritage.
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Carole Ward Allen
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- consultantpoliticianartist
- Biography
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Carole Ward Allen is an American politician, professor, and political consultant. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and serves as the chief executive officer of CWA Partners, LLC. As a mass transportation executive in the State of California, Ward Allen served three four-year terms as an elected member of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Board of Directors representing the 4th district from 1998 until 2010.
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Jean Monestime
- Born in
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Haiti - Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Jean Monestime is an American politician, real estate businessman and member of the Miami-Dade County Commission since 2010. He is the first Haitian-American to serve as a Miami-Dade County commissioner, as well as the first to chair the commission. Monestime represents District 2 in northeast Miami-Dade County, which incorporates portions of North Miami, North Miami Beach and Biscayne Gardens, as well as the Miami neighborhoods of Little Haiti and Liberty City.
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Sheri Polster Chappell
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Sheri Jean Polster Chappell is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
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Larcenia Bullard
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Larcenia J. Bullard was an American politician and a Democratic member of the Florida State Senate, representing the 39th District, which included parts of Collier, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach Counties, from 2002 to 2012.
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K. Peter Turnquest
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kevin Peter Turnquest is a Bahamian politician who served as deputy prime minister and minister of finance from May 15, 2017 to November 25, 2020.
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James Bush
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Drew Bush III is a Miami, Florida teacher and Democratic politician who served as the representative for District 109 of the Florida House of Representatives. He previously represented the same district from 1992 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2010.
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Ginger Lerner-Wren
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Ginger Lerner-Wren is an American county judge and author. She is renowned for her advocacy in mental health law and criminal justice reform. Lerner-Wren also serves as an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University.
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Keith Sonderling
- Enrolled in Nova Southeastern University
- Graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- civil servantlawyer
- Biography
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Keith E. Sonderling is an American lawyer and government official. He has served as the 38th United States Deputy Secretary of Labor, the acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Acting Under Secretary of United States Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Authority since 2025, during President Donald Trump's second term. From 2020 to 2024, he served as commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. From 2017 to 2020, he served as the deputy and acting administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor. Before government service, he was a shareholder at Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Nick Thompson
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Nick Thompson is a former Fort Myers, Florida Republican politician who served as the Representative for District 73 in the House of Representatives of the U.S. state of Florida. He was first elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2008. He chaired the Civil Justice & Courts Policy Committee.
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Leroy Gilbert
- Enrolled in Nova Southeastern University
- Graduated with Doctor of Education
- Occupations
- military officerChristian minister
- Biography
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Leroy Gilbert is a former officer in the United States Navy and Chaplain of the United States Coast Guard.
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Bobby Payne
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bobby Payne is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2016–2024.
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Charles J. Cunningham
- Years
- 1932-2022 (aged 90)
- Enrolled in Nova Southeastern University
- Graduated with Doctor of Public Administration
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Charles J. Cunningham Jr. was a lieutenant general in the U.S. Air Force. His last post in the Air Force was as the commander of the Twelfth Air Force, Tactical Air Command at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas. After his retirement from the military he served as director of the Defense Security Service until 2002. While working for the U.S. Department of Defense he held several executive positions within the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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Joseph W. Underwood
- Occupations
- teacherAmerican football official
- Biography
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Joseph W. Underwood is an American teacher and athletic trainer born in Indianapolis. Underwood was inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame. In 2007, Underwood was selected as a top 50 finalist in the Global Teacher Prize in 2018 by the Varkey Foundation.
