100 Notable alumni of
Reed College
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Reed College is 538th in the world, 197th in North America, and 181st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Reed College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Steve Jobs
- Enrolled in Reed College
- Studied in 1972-1974
- Occupations
- inventorentrepreneurcomputer scientistexecutive producerdesigner
- Biography
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Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, co-inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. (as Apple Computer Company) with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011.
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Morgan Spector
- Occupations
- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Morgan Spector is an American actor. He first gained recognition for his appearances in the television series Homeland (2018) and The Plot Against America (2020) as well as the films Christine (2016), A Vigilante (2018), and Boston Strangler (2023). He has since starred in the HBO historical drama The Gilded Age (2022–present).
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Christopher Langan
- Occupations
- husbandry workerbouncerwriter
- Biography
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Christopher Michael Langan is an American horse rancher and former bar bouncer, known for scoring highly on an IQ test that gained him entry to a high-IQ society and for being formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records high IQ section under the pseudonym of Eric Hart, alongside Marilyn vos Savant and Keith Raniere. The record was discontinued in 1990, as high IQs are considered too unreliable to document as world records. Langan was later a subject of Malcolm Gladwell's 2008 book Outliers: The Story of Success, in which the journalist sought to understand why Langan's high IQ had not led to greater success in life – Langan has no degree, having twice dropped out of college. The book compared him with J. Robert Oppenheimer and focused on the influence of their respective environments on success.
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Ry Cooder
- Occupations
- composerrecord producerguitaristbanjoistmusicologist
- Biography
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Ryland Peter Cooder is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in traditional music, and his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.
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Larry Sanger
- Occupations
- computer scientistbusinesspersonphilosopherblogger
- Biography
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Lawrence Mark Sanger is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded Wikipedia, along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined the name Wikipedia and provided initial drafts for many of its early guidelines, including the "Neutral point of view" and "Ignore all rules" policies. Prior to Wikipedia, he was the editor-in-chief of Nupedia, another online encyclopedia and the predecessor of Wikipedia. He later worked on other encyclopedic projects, including Encyclopedia of Earth, Citizendium, and Everipedia, and advised the nonprofit American political encyclopedia Ballotpedia. Sanger's other interests include theology and philosophy such as epistemology, early modern philosophy, and ethics. He taught philosophy at Ohio State University.
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Hope Lange
- Occupations
- television actormodelstage actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American film, stage, and television actress. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Selena Cross in the 1957 film Peyton Place. In 1969 and 1970, she twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Carolyn Muir in the sitcom The Ghost & Mrs. Muir.
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Dr. Demento
- Occupations
- screenwriterdisc jockeymusicologistactorradio personality
- Biography
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Barret Eugene Hansen, also known professionally as Dr. Demento, is a retired American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and unusual recordings from the dawn of the phonograph to the present.
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James Beard
- Occupations
- writerchef
- Biography
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James Andrews Beard was an American chef, cookbook author, teacher and television personality. He pioneered television cooking shows, taught at The James Beard Cooking School in New York City and Seaside, Oregon, and lectured widely. He emphasized American cooking, prepared with fresh and wholesome American ingredients, to a country just becoming aware of its own culinary heritage. Beard taught and mentored generations of professional chefs and food enthusiasts. He published more than twenty books, and his memory is honored by his foundation's annual James Beard Awards.
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Gary Snyder
- Occupations
- environmentalistwritertrade unionisttranslatorpoet
- Biography
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Gary Snyder is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. He has translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese. For many years, Snyder was an academic at the University of California, Davis, and for a time served as a member of the California Arts Council.
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Emilio Pucci
- Occupations
- politicianfashion designer
- Biography
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Emilio Pucci, Marchese di Barsento was an Italian aristocrat, fashion designer and politician. He and his eponymous company Pucci designed geometric prints in many colors.
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Barbara Ehrenreich
- Occupations
- immunologistjournalistessayistwriternovelist
- Biography
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Barbara Ehrenreich was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and the Erasmus Prize.
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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Enrolled in Reed College
- In 2012 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Kristina Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been the United States representative for Washington's 3rd congressional district since 2023. She is a co-chair of the Blue Dog Coalition.
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Daniel Kottke
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Daniel Kottke is an American businessman known for having been a college friend of Steve Jobs and one of the first employees of Apple Inc. He met Jobs at Reed College in 1972, and they trekked together through India for spiritual enlightenment and to the All One Farm. In 1976, Kottke realized his interest in computers when Jobs hired him to assemble hobbyist computer projects and then to be a part-time employee at the newly founded Apple Computer. There, he debugged the Apple II family, prototyped the Apple III and Macintosh, and endured the IPO where Steve Wozniak assigned Kottke some of his own stock. He was portrayed in several films about Apple.
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Mike Davis
- Occupations
- critichistoriantheoristuniversity teacheractivist
- Biography
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Michael Ryan Davis was an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian based in Southern California. He was best known for his investigations of power and social class in works such as City of Quartz and Late Victorian Holocausts. His last two non-fiction books were Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener, and The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism (February 2022).
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Raymond Smullyan
- Occupations
- chess composeruniversity teachermagicianmathematicianpianist
- Biography
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Raymond Merrill Smullyan was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher.
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Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves
- Occupations
- historianlibrarianeducator
- Biography
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves is an American librarian, educator, historian, and editor. She is the eldest grandchild of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. Her parents are Anna Roosevelt Dall and her first husband Curtis Bean Dall. She is usually known as "Sistie", "Ellie" or "Eleanor". She is currently the oldest living grandchild of a US President.
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Alafair Burke
- Occupations
- university teacherlegal scholarnovelistwriterjurist
- Biography
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Alafair S. Burke is an American crime novelist, professor of law, and legal commentator. She is a New York Times bestselling author of fifteen crime novels, including The Ex, The Wife, The Better Sister, and The Note, and two series—one featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher; and the other featuring Portland, Oregon prosecutor Samantha Kincaid. She also co-authored eight novels with Mary Higgins Clark. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
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Suzan DelBene
- Enrolled in Reed College
- In 1983 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianbusiness executive
- Biography
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Suzan Kay DelBene is an American politician and businesswoman who has been the United States representative for Washington's 1st congressional district since 2012.
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Rose Friedman
- Occupations
- writereconomist
- Biography
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Rose Director Friedman /dɪˈrɛktər ˈfriːdmən/; born Rose Director was a free-market economist and co-founder of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation.
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Steven Raichlen
- Occupations
- novelistchef
- Biography
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Steven Raichlen is an American culinary writer, TV host, and novelist.
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Katherine Dunn
- Occupations
- radio personalitypoetwritersports journalistnovelist
- Biography
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Katherine Karen Dunn was an American novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. She is best known for her novel Geek Love (1989). She was also a prolific writer on boxing.
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Daryl Bem
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychologist
- Biography
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Daryl J. Bem is a social psychologist and professor emeritus at Cornell University. He is the originator of the self-perception theory of attitude formation and change. He has also researched psi phenomena, group decision making, handwriting analysis, sexual orientation, and personality theory and assessment.
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Johanna Fateman
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- guitaristsongwriterwriter
- Biography
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Johanna Rachel Fateman is an American writer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. She is a member of the electropunk band Le Tigre and founded the band MEN with Le Tigre bandmate JD Samson.
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Robert Cornthwaite
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Robert Rae Cornthwaite was an American film and television character actor.
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Eric Overmyer
- Occupations
- television producerscreenwriterwriter
- Biography
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Eric Ellis Overmyer is an American writer and producer. He has written and/or produced numerous TV shows, including St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, The Wire, New Amsterdam, Bosch, Treme, and The Man in the High Castle.
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Diane Ravitch
- Occupations
- pedagogueuniversity teacherpolitical activistbloggerjournalist
- Biography
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Diane Silvers Ravitch is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. In 2010, she became "an activist on behalf of public schools." Her blog at DianeRavitch.net has received more than 36 million page views since she began blogging in 2012. Ravitch writes for the New York Review of Books.
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Howard Rheingold
- Occupations
- writerliterary criticessayistsociologist
- Biography
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Howard Rheingold is an American critic, writer, and teacher, known for his specialties on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities.
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Adrian Chen
- Occupations
- journalistblogger
- Biography
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Adrian Chen is an American blogger, and former staff writer at The New Yorker. Chen joined Gawker in November 2009 as a night shift editor, graduating from an internship position at Slate, and has written extensively on Internet culture, especially virtual communities such as 4chan and Reddit. Chen is the creator of The Pamphlette, a "humor publication" for Reed College students on a piece of letter-size paper. He has written for The New York Times, New York magazine, Wired, and other publications.
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Mukunda Goswami
- Occupations
- writermusic arrangergurucomposer
- Biography
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Mukunda Goswami is a spiritual leader (guru) in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (popularly known as ISKCON or the Hare Krishnas).
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Eleanor Rosch
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychologist
- Biography
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Eleanor Rosch is an American psychologist. She is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in cognitive psychology and primarily known for her work on categorization, in particular her prototype theory, which has profoundly influenced the field of cognitive psychology.
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Anya Schiffrin
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Anya Schiffrin is the co-director of the Technology Policy and Innovation (TPI) Concentration at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and a senior lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs. Previously, she served as the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications (TMaC) specialization at SIPA.
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Sally Haslanger
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Sally Haslanger is an American philosopher and the Ford Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Janet Fitch
- Occupations
- writernovelistjournalistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Janet Fitch is an American author. She wrote the novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College.
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Tamim Ansary
- Occupations
- historianopinion journalistwriter
- Biography
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Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and public speaker. He is the author of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, West of Kabul, East of New York, and other books concerning Afghan and Muslim history. He was previously a columnist for the encyclopedia website Encarta.
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Bud Clark
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Elwood "Bud" Clark Jr. was an American businessman and politician who served as the 48th mayor of Portland, Oregon, from 1985 to 1992. A left-leaning populist with little political experience before his mayoral bid, he was one of Portland's most colorful political figures.
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Steven Shapin
- Occupations
- historiansociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Steven Shapin is an American historian and sociologist of science. He is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Harvard University.
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Greta Christina
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Greta Christina is an American atheist, blogger, speaker, and author.
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Norman Solomon
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Norman Solomon is an American journalist, media critic, left-leaning progressive activist, and former U.S. congressional candidate. Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR). In 1997 he founded the Institute for Public Accuracy, which works to provide alternative sources for journalists, and serves as its executive director.
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Malati Dasi
- Occupations
- religious leader
- Biography
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Malati Dasi is a senior spiritual leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). Born in Vallejo, California, she was part of the hippie movement before becoming an initiated disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1967. In the same year, she and her husband, Shyamasundar Das, helped Mukunda Das organize the Mantra-Rock Dance, a countercultural musical event held at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco; the dance was a fundraiser for ISKCON's first center on the west coast of the US.
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Simone Forti
- Occupations
- film directordancerartistwritercomposer
- Biography
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Simone Forti is an American postmodern artist, dancer, choreographer, and writer. Since the 1950s, she has exhibited, performed, and taught workshops all over the world. Her innovations in Postmodern dance, including her seminal 1961 body of work, Dance Constructions, along with her contribution to the early Fluxus movement, have influenced many notable dancers and artists. Forti first apprenticed with Anna Halprin in the 1950s and has since worked alongside artists and composers Nam June Paik, Steve Paxton, La Monte Young, Trisha Brown, Charlemagne Palestine, Peter Van Riper, Dan Graham, Yoshi Wada, Robert Morris and others. Forti's published books include Handbook in Motion (1974, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), Angel (1978, self-published), and Oh Tongue (2003, Beyond Baroque Foundation, ed. Fred Dewey), reprinted by Nero Editions, Rome, in 2023, and New Book (2024), published by Nero Editions. She is currently represented by The Box L.A. in Los Angeles, CA, and has works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
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Arlene Blum
- Occupations
- mountaineerbiophysicistwriter
- Biography
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Arlene Blum is an American mountaineer, writer, and environmental health scientist. She is best known for leading the first successful American ascent of Annapurna (I), a climb that was also an all-woman ascent. She led the first all-woman ascent of Denali ("Denali Damsels" expedition), and was the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest. She is executive director of the Green Science Policy Institute, an organization of scientists who develop and communicate peer-reviewed research to develop innovative solutions to reduce the use of toxic chemicals.
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Tina Satter
- Occupations
- theatrical directorplaywrightfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Kristina "Tina" Satter is an American playwright and theater director based in New York City. She is the founder and artistic director of the theater company Half Straddle, which formed in 2008 and received an Obie Award grant in 2013. Satter won a Guggenheim in 2020. Satter was described by Ben Brantley of the New York Times as "a genre-and-gender-bending, visually exacting stage artist who has developed an ardent following among downtown aesthetes with a taste for acidic eye candy and erotic enigmas." Her work often deals with subjects of gender, sexual identity, adolescence, and sports.
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Victor Jorgensen
- Occupations
- photographerwar photographer
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Victor Jorgensen was a former Navy photo journalist who probably is most notable for taking an instantly iconic photograph of an impromptu scene in Manhattan on August 14, 1945, but from a different angle and in a less dramatic exposure than that of a photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Both photographs were of the same V-J Day embrace of a woman in a white dress by a sailor. Eisenstaedt's better known photograph, V-J Day in Times Square, was published in Life.
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Dale W. Jorgenson
- Enrolled in Reed College
- In 1955 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Dale Weldeau Jorgenson was an American economist who served as the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University. An influential econometric scholar, he was famed for his work on the relationship between productivity and economic growth, the economics of climate change, and the intersection between economics and statistics. Described as a "master" of his field, he received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1971, and was described as a worthy contender for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Ernest Haycox
- Occupations
- novelistscreenwriterwriter
- Biography
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Ernest James Haycox was an American writer of Western fiction.
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Richard Danzig
- Enrolled in Reed College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Richard Jeffrey Danzig is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton. He served as an advisor of the President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign and was later the chairman of the national security think-tank, the Center for a New American Security.
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Richard Wolin
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Richard Wolin is an American intellectual historian specialising in 20th-century European philosophy, particularly German philosopher Martin Heidegger and the group of thinkers known collectively as the Frankfurt School.
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Margaret Elizabeth Murie
- Occupations
- botanical collectorscientific collectorwriterconservationistactivist
- Biography
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Margaret Elizabeth Thomas "Mardy" Murie was an American naturalist, writer, adventurer, and conservationist. Dubbed the "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement" by both the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society, she helped in the passage of the Wilderness Act, and was instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She was the recipient of the Audubon Medal, the John Muir Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian honor awarded by the United States.
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Anne Washburn
- Occupations
- writerplaywright
- Biography
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Anne Washburn is an American playwright.
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Charles Bigelow
- Occupations
- graphic designertypographertype designeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Charles A. Bigelow is an American type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, the Frederic W. Goudy Award in 1987, Sloan Science and Film screenwriting awards in 2001 and 2002, and other honors. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida and Wingdings font families. He is a principal of the Bigelow and Holmes studio.
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Margaret Mitchell
- Occupations
- researcherAI ethicist
- Biography
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Margaret Mitchell is a computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and fairness in machine learning. She is most well known for her work on automatically removing undesired biases concerning demographic groups from machine learning models, as well as more transparent reporting of their intended use.
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Igor Vamos
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- screenwritermultimedia artistfilm director
- Biography
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Igor Vamos is a member of The Yes Men (using the alias Michael "Mike" Bonanno), and an associate professor of media arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2000, he received the Creative Capital award in the discipline of Emerging Fields. He is also a co-founder of RTmark and the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, granted for a project that used Global Positioning System (GPS) and other wireless technology to create a new medium with which to "view" his documentary Grounded, about an abandoned military base in Wendover, Utah.
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Bill Naito
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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William Sumio Naito was an American businessman, civic leader and philanthropist in Portland, Oregon, U.S. He was an enthusiastic advocate for investment in downtown Portland, both private and public, and is widely credited for helping to reverse a decline in the area in the 1970s through acquiring and renovating derelict or aging buildings and encouraging others to invest in downtown and the central city.
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Kris Holmes
- Occupations
- type designeranimatorcalligrapher
- Biography
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Kris Holmes is an American typeface designer, calligrapher, type design educator and animator. She, with Charles Bigelow, is the co-creator of the Lucida and Wingdings font families, among many other typeface designs. She is President and Co-Founder of Bigelow & Holmes Inc., a typeface design studio.
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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Enrolled in Reed College
- Studied in 1969
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is a contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language School, the poetry of the New York School, phenomenology, and visual art. She is married to the painter Richard Tuttle, with whom she has frequently collaborated.
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Mark Ptashne
- Occupations
- business executivemolecular biologistcollectoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Mark Ptashne is a molecular biologist. He is the Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
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Lisa Nakamura
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- academicuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lisa Nakamura is an American professor of media and cinema studies, Asian American studies, and gender and women’s studies. She teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is also the Coordinator of Digital Studies and the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures.
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Norman Packard
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Norman Harry Packard is a chaos theory physicist and one of the founders of the Prediction Company and ProtoLife. He is an alumnus of Reed College, with a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Packard is known for his contributions to chaos theory, complex systems, and artificial life. He coined the phrase "the edge of chaos".
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Jon Appleton
- Occupations
- university teachermusic educatorcomposer
- Biography
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Jon Howard Appleton was an American composer, an educator and a pioneer in electro-acoustic music. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. "Chef d'Oeuvre" and "Newark Airport Rock" (1967) attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called programmatic electronic music. In 1970, he won Guggenheim, Fulbright and American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowships. When he was twenty-eight years old, he joined the faculty of Dartmouth College where he established one of the first electronic music studios in the United States. He remained there intermittently for forty-two years. In the mid-1970s, he left Dartmouth to briefly become the head of Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) (sv) in Stockholm, Sweden. In the late 1970s, together with Sydney Alonso and Cameron Jones, he helped develop the first commercial digital synthesizer called the Synclavier. For a decade he toured around the United States and Europe performing the compositions he composed for this instrument. In the early 1990s, he helped found the Theremin Center for Electronic Music at the Moscow Conservatory of Music. He also taught at Keio University (Mita) in Tokyo, Japan, CCRMA at Stanford University and the University of California Santa Cruz. In his later years, he devoted most of his time to the composition of instrumental and choral music in a quasi-Romantic vein which has largely been performed only in France, Russia and Japan.
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Jessica Litman
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- legal scholar
- Biography
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Jessica Litman is a leading intellectual property scholar. She has been ranked as one of the most-cited U.S. law professors in the field of intellectual property/cyberlaw.
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Pamela Ronald
- Occupations
- geneticistresearcher
- Biography
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Pamela Christine Ronald is an American plant pathologist and geneticist. She is a professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and conducts research at the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis and a member of the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. She also serves as Director of Grass Genetics at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, California. In 2018 she served as a visiting professor at Stanford University in the Center on Food Security and the Environment.
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Vanessa Veselka
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Vanessa Veselka is an American writer best known for her 2020 novel The Great Offshore Grounds, which won the Oregon Book Award and was longlisted for the U.S. National Book Award. She is also known for her first novel, Zazen.
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Maurice Isserman
- Occupations
- historianbiographeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Maurice Isserman is an American historian who is Professor of History at Hamilton College. He has written about the Communist Party USA during the Popular Front period of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as the emergence of the New Left and the 1960s. He co-authored a biography with Dorothy Ray Healey and authored a biography of Michael Harrington, both of whom were co-founders of Democratic Socialists of America. He has contributed editorials and book reviews to The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and The American Alpine Review. In 2008, he began writing about mountaineering.
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Howard Wolpe
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Howard Eliot Wolpe was an American politician who served as a seven-term U.S. Representative from Michigan and Presidential Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region in the Clinton Administration, where he led the United States delegation to the Arusha and Lusaka peace talks, which aimed to end civil wars in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He returned to the U.S. State Department as Special Advisor to the Secretary for Africa's Great Lakes Region. Previously, he had served as Director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and of the Center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity. While at the Center, Wolpe directed post-conflict leadership training programs in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia.
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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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Cecilia D'Anastasio
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in Reed College
- 2009-2013 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- video game journalistreporter
- Biography
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Cecilia D'Anastasio is an American journalist who primarily covers the video game industry. From 2016 to 2020, D'Anastasio wrote for Kotaku, and she was recognized for a 2018 article reporting allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination at Riot Games. Subsequently, she wrote for Wired magazine and joined Bloomberg News in 2022 to cover the video game industry. While at Bloomberg, D'Anastasio won a 2024 George Polk Award for her reporting on child exploitation in Roblox.
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Walter Berns
- Occupations
- political theoristpolitical philosopherpolitical scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Walter Fred Berns Jr. was an American constitutional law and political philosophy professor. He was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor emeritus at Georgetown University.
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Richard L. Hanna
- Enrolled in Reed College
- In 1976 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- business executivebusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Richard Louis Hanna was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New York from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, his district was numbered the 24th during his first term in Congress; from 2013 to 2017, it was numbered as the 22nd district.
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Mary Rosenblum
- Occupations
- novelistscience fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Mary Rosenblum was an American science fiction and mystery author.
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Max Gordon
- Years
- 1903-1989 (aged 86)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Max Gordon was an American jazz promoter and founder of the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City.
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Louis S. Goodman
- Occupations
- pharmacologist
- Biography
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Louis Sanford Goodman was an American pharmacologist. He is best known for his collaborations with Alfred Gilman, Sr., with whom he authored the popular textbook The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics in 1941 and pioneered the first chemotherapy trials using nitrogen mustard.
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Chris Garrett
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Christopher L. Garrett is a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court since January 1, 2019. Previously, he served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 2013 to 2019, and was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2008 to 2012.
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Tom Crosshill
- Occupations
- writertranslatorinvestor
- Biography
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Tom Crosshill is a Latvian author of speculative and literary fiction, active since 2010. His work has appeared in publications in Chinese, Spanish, English, Finnish, Latvian and Polish. Crosshill has been nominated for several Nebula Awards and won the European Science Fiction Society Award for Best Author in 2016.
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Sarah Dougher
- Occupations
- singercomposersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Sarah Eugenie Dougher /ˈduːɡər/ is an American singer-songwriter, author, and teacher.
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Rob Heinsoo
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- novelistdesignerrole-playing game designer
- Biography
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Rob Heinsoo is an American tabletop game designer. He has been designing and contributing to professional role-playing games, card games, and board games since 1994. Heinsoo was the lead designer on the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons (2008), and is co-designer of the 13th Age roleplaying game along with Jonathan Tweet. He has also designed and contributed to role playing, miniatures and card games, and a computer game.
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Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
- Years
- 1927-2008 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- anthropologistfilm produceruniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Elizabeth Warnock Fernea was an influential writer and filmmaker who spent much of her life in the field producing numerous ethnographies and films that capture the struggles and turmoil of African and Middle Eastern cultures. Her husband, the anthropologist Robert A. Fernea, was a large influence in her life. Fernea is commonly regarded as a pioneer for women in the field of Middle East Studies.
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Leslie Scalapino
- Occupations
- playwrightpoetwriter
- Biography
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Leslie Scalapino was an American poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. One of Scalapino's most critically well-received works is Way (North Point Press, 1988), a long poem which won the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award.
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Yoram Bauman
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Yoram Keyes Bauman is an American economist and stand-up comedian.
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Larry Shaw
- Occupations
- physicistcurator
- Biography
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Lawrence N. Shaw was an American physicist, curator, and artist. Shaw worked at the Exploratorium, a San Francisco science museum, for 33 years, performing most functions for the museum. He was a key member of the arts and technology community in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Sascha Altman DuBrul
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Biography
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Sascha Altman DuBrul, a.k.a. Sascha DuBrul or Sascha Scatter, is an American activist, writer, farmer and punk rock musician known as the bass player of the 1990s ska-punk band Choking Victim.
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Michael Teitelbaum
- Occupations
- demographerstatistician
- Biography
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Michael S. Teitelbaum is a demographer and the former Vice President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City. He is Senior Research Associate at the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School.
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Mark Galassi
- Occupations
- astrophysicistprogrammer
- Biography
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Mark Galassi is a physicist, computer scientist, and contributor to the free and open-source software movement. He was born in Manhattan, grew up in France and Italy, and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Lee Oser
- Occupations
- novelistliterary criticjournalist
- Biography
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Lee Oser is an American novelist, Christian humanist, and literary critic. He is a former president of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. He teaches religion and literature at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Hans A. Linde
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Hans Arthur Linde was a German-born American legal scholar who served as a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1977 to 1990.
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Pat Silver-Lasky
- Occupations
- film screenwriterfilm actortelevision actoractortelevision writer
- Biography
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Barbara Hayden, also known professionally as Pat Silver-Lasky, was an American actress and writer, mostly known for her collaborations with her second husband, Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
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Sumner Stone
- Occupations
- type designer
- Biography
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Sumner Stone is a typeface designer and graphic artist. He notably designed ITC Stone while working for Adobe. A specimen of ITC Stone is shown at his personal website.
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Mark Bitterman
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Mark Bitterman is an American entrepreneur and food writer. He is the owner of The Meadow, a boutique that specializes in finishing salts, bean-to-bar chocolate, cocktail bitters, and other products. The Meadow was founded in Portland, Oregon, in 2006, and has expanded to include three locations in Portland, one in Nolita in New York City, and one in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Bitterman began selling salt wholesale to award-winning restaurateurs in 2006, and in 2012 officially launched the Bitterman Salt Co. to sell salt through retailers nationally. Bitterman has published five books. Two are on traditional culinary salts and their use in cooking. Two are about cooking with Himalayan salt blocks, and helped pioneer the concept. His remaining book is on the use of bitters and amari in mixology and cooking. He consults with restaurateurs and lectures at culinary academies about the use of finishing salts and Himalayan salt blocks.
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Allen Bergin
- Occupations
- priestpsychologistpsychotherapist
- Biography
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Allen Eric Bergin was an American clinical psychologist known for his research on psychotherapy outcomes and on integrating psychotherapy and religion. His 1980 article on theistic values was groundbreaking in the field and elicited over 1,000 responses and requests for reprints, and including those from Carl Rogers and Albert Bandura. Bergin is also noted for his interchanges with probabilistic atheist Albert Ellis.
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John Backus
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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John Graham Backus was a Lithuanian American physicist and acoustician.
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Laleh Khadivi
- Occupations
- filmmakernovelist
- Biography
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Laleh Khadivi is an Iranian American novelist, and filmmaker.
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Arthur Ogus
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Arthur Edward Ogus is an American mathematician. His research is in algebraic geometry; he has served as chair of the mathematics department at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Athena Aktipis
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Christina Athena Aktipis is an associate professor in the department of psychology at Arizona State University. She is the director of the Interdisciplinary Cooperation Initiative and the co-director of the Human Generosity Project. She is also the director of the Cooperation and Conflict lab at Arizona State, vice president of the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer, and former director of human and social evolution and co-founder of the Center for Evolution and Cancer at UCSF. She is a cooperation theorist, an evolutionary biologist, an evolutionary psychologist, and a cancer biologist who works at the intersection of those fields. Aktipis is the author of the books The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer (2020) and A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times (2024). She hosts Zombified, a podcast that discusses the science of zombification in daily life. The podcast is an extension of the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting (ZAMM), a biannual conference chaired by Aktipis. ZAMM is an interdisciplinary conference where art, science, and medicine come together with the aim of solving complex issues.
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Jonathan Grudin
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistcomputer scientistmathematicianpsychologist
- Biography
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Jonathan Grudin was a researcher at Microsoft from 1998 to 2022 and is affiliate professor at the University of Washington Information School working in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Grudin is a pioneer of the field of computer-supported cooperative work and one of its most prolific contributors. His collaboration distance to other researchers of human-computer interactions has been described by the "Grudin number". Grudin is also well known for the "Grudin Paradox" or "Grudin Problem", which states basically with respect to the design of collaborative software for organizational settings, "What may be in the managers' best interests may not be in the interests of individual contributors, and therefore not used." He was awarded the inaugural CSCW Lasting Impact Award in 2014 on the basis of this work. He has also written about the publication culture and history of human-computer interactions.
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Lorne Craner
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Lorne Whitney Craner was an American foreign policy expert, has served in key diplomatic and policymaking roles in three administrations and three times as president of major non-governmental organizations.
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David Bragdon
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David L. Bragdon is an American politician and civic leader in the U.S. states of Oregon and New York. From 2003 to 2010, he was the elected president of the Metro Council, a regional government in the Portland metropolitan area. He served as Director of the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability in the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City. He is currently executive director of TransitCenter, Inc., a New York-based non-profit organization which commissions and conducts research and advocacy related to urban transportation.
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David Grusky
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- university teacheracademicsociologist
- Biography
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David Bryan Grusky is an American sociologist and academic renowned for his work on social inequality, economic stratification, and mobility. He is the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University and serves as the founding director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. He formerly taught at Cornell University and the University of Chicago. Grusky's research combines sociological theory to investigate the systemic causes and consequences of inequality, with a particular focus on income disparities, social class, microclass occupations and intergenerational mobility.
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Michael E. Levine
- Years
- 1941-2017 (aged 76)
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Michael E. Levine was a "Distinguished Research Scholar" at the New York University School of Law. He made substantial contributions to the world of air transportation and its regulation as a senior airline executive, an academic and a government official. He retired from Northwest Airlines in 1999 to return to academic life.
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Cathy Linh Che
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American poet from Los Angeles. She won the Kundiman Poetry prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies for her book Split.
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Paul Shaw
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- calligraphergraphic designerdesignertypographer
- Biography
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Paul Shaw is an American designer, calligrapher, and historian of design who lives in New York City. He has written a book on the history of the design of the New York City Subway system, Helvetica and the New York Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story, on the work of William Addison Dwiggins, and for Print magazine. His book on the New York subway is known as one of the best modern design books. He received the annual SoTA Typography Award of 2019. Shaw is Editor-in-Chief of Codex, Journal of Letterforms, and The Eternal Letter Design. His work has won awards from the AIGA Directors Club and the Art Directors Club of New York.
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Megan Prelinger
- Occupations
- historianarchivist
- Biography
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Megan Prelinger is a cultural historian and archivist. She is the co-founder of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco and author of two books: Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957–1962 and Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age.
