19 Notable alumni of
Scripps College
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Scripps College is 2098th in the world, 721st in North America, and 678th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from Scripps 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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Gabby Giffords
- Enrolled in Scripps College
- In 1993 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticiangun control activistentrepreneuranalyst
- Biography
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Gabrielle Dee Giffords is an American retired politician and gun control activist. She served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Arizona's 8th congressional district from January 2007 until January 2012, when she resigned because of a severe brain injury suffered during an assassination attempt. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the third woman in Arizona's history to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
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Serena Altschul
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Serena Altschul is an American broadcast journalist, known for her work at MTV News and CBS.
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Matthew Logelin
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Matthew Logelin is an American author, blogger, public speaker, and charity founder. In 2011, he published Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love, which was a New York Times Best Seller. His blog, Matt, Liz and Madeline: Life and Death, All in a 27-Hour Period, received over 40,000 hits per day at its height in 2008. Both the blog and the memoir document his grief and sudden single parenthood following the unexpected death of his wife, Liz Logelin, 27 hours after the birth of the couple's first child. A screen adaptation of the memoir starring Kevin Hart and presented by the Obamas premiered on Netflix in 2021. In 2009, Logelin established The Liz Logelin Foundation, a non-profit organization providing financial grants to families with children who have lost a parent. In 2018, he was featured on an episode of the podcast Reply All, where the hosts attempted to help him take down viral ads featuring misrepresentations about his and his wife's story.
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Eva Rubinstein
- Occupations
- photographerballet dancer
- Biography
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Eva Rubinstein is a Polish-American photographer whose artistic works present portraits, nudes and interiors, often taken in Europe as well as the United States.
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Ellen Rosenblum
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Ellen F. Rosenblum is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 17th Oregon Attorney General from June 2012 to December 2024. She is the first female state attorney general in Oregon's history, and previously was a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 2005 to 2011.
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Hannah-Beth Jackson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hannah-Beth Jackson is an American politician who served in the California State Senate from 2012 to 2020. A Democrat, she represented the 19th Senate District, encompassing Santa Barbara County and most of Ventura County.
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Alison Saar
- Enrolled in Scripps College
- In 1978 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- photographerpainterprintmakerinstallation artistsculptor
- Biography
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Alison Saar is a Los Angeles-based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and black female identity and is influenced by African, Caribbean, and Latin American folk art and spirituality. Saar is well known for "transforming found objects to reflect themes of cultural and social identity, history, and religion." Saar credits her parents, collagist and assemblage artist Betye Saar (née Brown) and painter and art conservator Richard Saar, for her early exposure to art and to these metaphysical and spiritual practices. Saar followed in her parents footsteps along with her sisters, Lezley Saar and Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh who are also artists. Saar has been a practicing artist for many years, exhibiting in galleries around the world as well as installing public art works in New York City. She has received achievement awards from institutions including the New York City Art Commission as well as the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
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Susan G. Finley
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Susan G. Finley, a native Californian, has been an employee of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory since January 1958, making her the longest-serving woman in NASA. Two days before Explorer 1 was launched, Finley began her career with the laboratory as a human computer, calculating rocket launch trajectories by hand. She now serves as a subsystem engineer for NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). At JPL, she has participated in the exploration of the Moon, the Sun, all the planets, and other bodies in the Solar System.
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Pae White
- Occupations
- textile artistartistinstallation artistprintmakersculptor
- Biography
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Pae White is an American multimedia visual artist known for her unique portrayal of nature and mundane objects through her creations of suspended mobiles. She currently lives and works between Sonoma County and Los Angeles, California.
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Margaret Hance
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Margaret Taylor Hance served as mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, between 1976 and 1984, winning four consecutive two year terms. Hance was the first woman to hold the office.
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Lisa Adams
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Lisa Adams is an American painter who emerged in the mid-1980s. She is best known for her oil paintings of imaginary worlds that address both personal and collective realities. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the public collections of LACMA, Eli Broad (corporate collection), the Denver Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum and the Laguna Museum of Art. She lives and works in downtown Los Angeles, California.
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Yoshiko Shimada
- Occupations
- photographertelevision producer
- Biography
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Yoshiko Shimada is a Japanese printmaker and performance artist who has been referred to as "Japan’s premier feminist and antiwar artist."
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Anne Hopkins Aitken
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Anne Arundel Hopkins Aitken was an American Zen Buddhist, in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. She co-founded the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in 1959 together with her husband, Robert Baker Aitken. She purchased both of its properties: the Koko An Zendo and Maui Zendo. Honolulu Diamond Sangha has been considered "one of several pivotal Buddhist organizations critical to the development of Zen" in western countries. Anne Aitken was also one of the original founders of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
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Elizabeth Turk
- Occupations
- video artistsculptor
- Biography
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Elizabeth Turk is an artist and native Californian known for her marble sculptures and community installations. She splits time between a studio in Santa Ana, CA and NYC, where she has been represented by Hirschl & Adler Modern since her first exhibition in 2000. She is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, an Annalee & Barnett Newman Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient, among other awards.
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Jack Zajac
- Occupations
- draftspersonsculptor
- Biography
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Jack Zajac is a Californian West Coast artist who has been concerned with the “Romantic Surrealist tradition”.
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Karen I. Tse
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Karen Irene Tse is a Swiss American of Chinese descent, and lives in Geneva. Tse is primarily concerned with human rights and is the founder and CEO of the global non-profit International Bridges to Justice which advocates for legal rights in more than 50 developing countries.
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Margaret Dilloway
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Margaret Dilloway is a Japanese American author best known for her novels How To Be An American Housewife and The Care And Handling Of Roses With Thorns.
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Suzanne Muchnic
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 85)
- Occupations
- opinion journalistart criticwriterjournalistart historian
- Biography
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Suzanne Muchnic is an art writer who was a staff art reporter and art critic at the Los Angeles Times for 31 years. She has also written books on artists, collectors, and museums.
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Judith Keep
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Judith Nelsen Keep was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
