48 Notable alumni of
Skidmore College
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Skidmore College is 899th in the world, 331st in North America, and 309th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 notable alumni from Skidmore 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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Jon Bernthal
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Jonathan Edward Bernthal is an American actor. Beginning his career in the early 2000s, he came to prominence for portraying Shane Walsh on the AMC horror series The Walking Dead (2010–2012; 2018), where he was a starring cast member in the first two seasons. Bernthal achieved further recognition as Frank Castle / Punisher in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) television series Daredevil (2016) and The Punisher (2017–2019). For his recurring role as Michael Berzatto in the series The Bear (2022–present), Bernthal received a Primetime Emmy nomination.
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Lake Bell
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- voice actoractorfilm directorstage actortelevision actor
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Lake Siegel Bell is an American actress, screenwriter, and director. She has appeared in various television series, including Boston Legal (2004–2006), Surface (2005–2006), How to Make It in America (2010–2011), Childrens Hospital (2008–2016), and Bless This Mess (2019–2020) and in films including Over Her Dead Body (2008), What Happens in Vegas (2008), It's Complicated (2009), No Strings Attached (2011), Million Dollar Arm (2014), No Escape (2015), Man Up (2015), The Secret Life of Pets (2016), Shot Caller (2017), Home Again (2017), The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).
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Kelly Curtis
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- television actorfilm actoractorfilm producer
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Kelly Lee Curtis is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Magic Sticks (1987), and The Devil's Daughter (1991).
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Eddie Cahill
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Edmund Patrick Cahill is an American actor known for portraying "Miracle on Ice" goalie Jim Craig in the 2004 film Miracle, and for playing the roles of Tag Jones in Friends and Detective Don Flack in CSI: NY. He has had numerous roles in television, films, and theater. His most recent starring role was in 2016 as District Attorney Conner Wallace in Conviction.
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Michael Zegen
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- television actoractor
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Michael Zegen is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series Rescue Me (2004–2011), Boardwalk Empire (2011–2014), and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023).
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Rya Kihlstedt
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Rya Kihlstedt is an American actress. She starred in the 1997 comedy film Home Alone 3 as Alice Ribbons. The following years she appeared in films Deep Impact, Women in Trouble (2009) and The Atticus Institute (2015). On television, she had a recurring roles as Dr. Michelle Ross in the Showtime crime drama Dexter and as Marilyn Rhodes in the ABC musical drama Nashville. In 2015, she starred in the NBC miniseries Heroes Reborn.
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Matt Hyson
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- professional wrestlerteacher
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Matthew Jonathan Hyson is an American retired professional wrestler best known for his tenure in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as Spike Dudley. Prior to WWE, Hyson began performing as Spike Dudley in the 1990s with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW); the Spike Dudley character being a member of The Dudley Brothers. As part of a storyline, fellow members Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley betrayed the faction to form a separate Dudley Boyz tag team; resulting in Hyson and members being involved in a subsequent feud with the duo.
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Evan Dando
- Occupations
- singer-songwritermusiciansingerguitarist
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Evan Griffith Dando is an American musician and the frontman of the rock band the Lemonheads. He has also embarked on a solo career and collaborated on songs with various artists. In December 2015, Dando was inducted into the Boston Music Awards Hall of Fame.
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Molly Bernard
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Molly Kate Bernard is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Lauren Heller on the television series Younger.
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Tawny Little
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- film actormodelnews presenterbeauty pageant contestantactor
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Tawny Little, Miss America 1976 and Miss New York 1975, is an American television personality.
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Jane Roberts
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- writerscience fiction writerpoetchildren's writerpsychic
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Dorothy Jane Roberts was an American author and poet, who claimed to be psychic and a spirit medium channeling a personality who called himself "Seth." Her publication of the Seth texts, known as the Seth Material, established her as one of the preeminent figures in the world of paranormal phenomena.
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Arwa Damon
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- journalist
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Arwa Damon is an American journalist who was most recently a senior international correspondent for CNN, based in Istanbul. From 2003, she covered the Middle East as a freelance journalist, before joining CNN in 2006. She is also president and founder of INARA, a humanitarian organization that provides medical treatment to refugee children from Syria.
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Chris Fleming
- Occupations
- television producerYouTuber
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Chris Fleming is an American comedian and actor best known for his YouTube series Gayle, in which he stars as the eponymous character Gayle Waters-Waters. In June 2019, Variety named Fleming one of its "10 Comics to Watch for 2019".
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Céline Cousteau
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- international forum participantfilm producerexplorerscreenwriterenvironmentalist
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Céline S. Cousteau is a socio-environmental advocate and public figure. She is known for her work as a documentary film director, producer, explorer, artist, public speaker, brand ambassador and designer, and is a frequent panelist at the United Nations in New York. She is the Founder/Director of CauseCentric Productions and Co-founder/ Chairman of the Board of the Outdoor Film Fellowship. She is the daughter of ocean explorer and filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau, and granddaughter of Jacques Cousteau.
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Kristina Anapau
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- film actortelevision actoractorstage actorballet dancer
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Kristina Elizabeth Anapau Roper, better known as Kristina Anapau, is an American actress and writer. She is known for her roles as Maurella on the HBO series True Blood and as Galina in the 2010 film Black Swan. She also portrayed Cassidy Merteuil in Cruel Intentions 3.
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Webster Tarpley
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- historianwriterconspiracy theoristphilosopherjournalist
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Webster Griffin Tarpley is an American writer, political activist, and conspiracy theorist. A one-time follower of Lyndon LaRouche, Tarpley is known for his role in the 9/11 truth movement, believing 9/11 was a false flag operation.
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Nathan Barr
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- composercellistfilm score composer
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Nathan Barr is an American film and television composer and musician. His television scores include True Blood, The Americans, Carnival Row, and The Great. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music in 2020 for his work on the miniseries Hollywood.
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Cynthia Carroll
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- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- geologistbusiness executiveinternational forum participant
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Cynthia Blum Carroll is an American businesswoman. She was the chief executive officer of Anglo American PLC, a South African mining company, which, among other things, is the world's largest platinum producer.
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BethAnn McLaughlin
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United States - Occupations
- neurologistresearcher
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BethAnn McLaughlin is an American neuroscientist, activist, and hoaxer. She is a former assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University. Her research at Vanderbilt focused on neural stress responses and brain injury. After being denied tenure in 2017, she sought to have the decision overturned. The decision to deny tenure was upheld, and her employment at Vanderbilt ended in July 2019.
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Brad Morris
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- comedianactorscreenwriter
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Brad Morris is an American actor and television writer. He starred in Playing House and had recurring roles on Cougar Town as Jerry from 2013 to 2015, for which he also wrote five episodes, Great News from 2017 to 2018, and Dice from 2016 to 2017.
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Kim Poor
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- painter
- Biography
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Elizabeth Kimball de Albuquerque Poor is a Brazilian artist.
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J. Christopher Giancarlo
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- lawyer
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J. Christopher Giancarlo is an American attorney and former business executive who served as 13th chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Giancarlo was sworn in as a CFTC commissioner on June 16, 2014 for a term expiring on April 13, 2019. Starting on January 20, 2017, with President Donald Trump's inauguration, Giancarlo began serving as acting chair of the CFTC. In March 2017, the president nominated Giancarlo to be full-time chair of the commission. Giancarlo was confirmed as chairman of the commission by the United States Senate on August 3, 2017.
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Lazer Lloyd
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- musician
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Lazer Lloyd is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Lloyd's music is a mix of acoustic and electric Americana, rock, folk, blues and psychedelic styles with lyrics touching on life, love, and struggle. He performs throughout the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Brazil, both in person and through social media.
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Louise Fili
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- graphic designertypographerdesigner
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Louise Fili, born on April 12, 1951, is an American graphic designer renowned for her adept use of typography and commitment to quality design. Her artistic inspiration derives from her passion for Italy, Modernism, and European Art Deco styles. Acknowledged as a trailblazer in the postmodern revival of historical styles in book jacket design, Fili seamlessly blends historic typography with contemporary colors and compositions. Commencing her career in the publishing industry, Fili gained prominence for her robust typographic approach, crafting nearly 2,000 book jackets during her tenure with Random House. Upon establishing her own design studio, she has directed her focus towards restaurant identity, food-related logos, and packaging.
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Cal Perry
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- journalist
- Biography
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Cal Perry is a broadcast journalist, currently working for MSNBC. He previously worked at Voice of America in a senior role and briefly at Al Jazeera English. Before joining Al Jazeera, he worked for many years with CNN, mostly in the Middle East. During this time, he served as: Bureau Chief in Baghdad, Iraq (2005-2007), Bureau Chief in Beirut, Lebanon. From these bases, he also covered the wars in Lebanon (2006), Georgia (2008) and Pakistan (2008), plus the aftermath of the devastating cyclone in Bangladesh, in 2007.
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Skylar Kergil
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- 1991-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- television producersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Skylar Kergil is an American transgender YouTube personality and singer-songwriter.
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Zach Gage
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- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- designervideo game developerconceptual artist
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Zach Gage is an independent video game programmer and designer based in New York City. He is known for his iOS games, including SpellTower.
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Sallie W. Chisholm
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- biologistuniversity teachermarine biologistoceanographerecologist
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Sallie Watson "Penny" Chisholm is an American biological oceanographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an expert in the ecology and evolution of ocean microbes. Her research focuses particularly on the most abundant marine phytoplankton, Prochlorococcus, that she discovered in the 1980s with Rob Olson and other collaborators. She has a TED talk about their discovery and importance called "The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet".
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Nick Petrangelo
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- poker player
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Nick Petrangelo is an American professional poker player from Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. He has won two World Series of Poker bracelets.
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Anne Wexler
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- politicianlobbyist
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Anne Levy Wexler was an influential American Democratic political consultant, public policy advisor, and later the first woman to head a leading lobbying firm in Washington, D.C.
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Scott Jacoby
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- DJ producersongwriterrecord producer
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Scott Adam Jacoby is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, sound engineer, and recording artist. He is a Grammy Award winner, and has worked with numerous artists in various genres including Coldplay, Cory Henry, Fabolous, Jackie Evancho, Janelle Monáe, Jason Mraz, John Legend, José James, Kane, Laura Izibor, Maiysha, Naturally 7, Rachel Platten, Ronnie Spector, Sia, Stormzy, Vampire Weekend and Vanessa Hudgens. In 2007, he founded his own record label Eusonia Records, and also established Eusonia Studios.
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Helene Schneider
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- politician
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Helene Schneider is an American politician from the Democratic Party. She was the mayor of Santa Barbara, California from 2010 to 2018, and a 2016 candidate for California's 24th congressional district. She was first elected mayor in 2009, succeeding Marty Blum. She won reelection to a second term in 2013. Prior to serving in government, Schneider worked at Planned Parenthood as the director of human resources for the affiliate serving Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties.
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Mary Foote Henderson
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- suffragistwriter
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Mary Foote Henderson was an American author, real estate developer, and social activist from the U.S. state of New York who was known as "The Empress of Sixteenth Street". Henderson was a notable supporter of women's suffrage, temperance and vegetarianism.
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Laura Anne Gilman
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- science fiction writernovelistwriter
- Biography
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Laura Anne Gilman is an American fantasy author.
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Nancy Munoz
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Enrolled in Skidmore College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in nursing science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nancy Ann Foster Munoz, commonly known as Nancy Munoz, is an American Republican Party politician who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2009, where she represents the 21st Legislative District. She was appointed minority whip on July 18, 2017, and co-chair of the Republican Conference, alongside John DiMaio, on January 14, 2020.
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Kyle Carey
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwritersongwriter
- Biography
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Kyle Carey is a Celtic Americana musical artist who creates a synthesis of music called 'Gaelic Americana'.
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Jardine Libaire
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Jardine Libaire is an American writer based in Austin, Texas. She is author of the novel White Fur.
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Diane Burko
- Occupations
- painterartistphotographer
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Diane Burko is an American painter and photographer. She is currently based in Philadelphia and Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her work addresses landscape, climate change and environmental activism.
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Karen Flaherty
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- military officernurse
- Biography
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Rear Admiral Karen Ann Flaherty assumed duties as the Deputy Surgeon General of Navy Medicine at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery as of August 6, 2010. Flaherty served as the 22nd Director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps as well as the Deputy Chief, Wounded, Ill, and Injured at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery from 2009 to 2010.
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Wendy Benchley
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- environmentalist
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Winifred "Wendy" Benchley is a marine and environmental conservation advocate and former councilwoman from New Jersey. She is known for co-founding various environmental organizations and for being the wife of author Peter Benchley.
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Peter Nichols
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- journalistwritersailor
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Peter Brayton Nichols is an American author. He is known for authoring bestsellers, “The Rocks,” (2015, a novel); A Voyage for Madmen, (2001, nonfiction), finalist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year), Evolution's Captain, (2003, nonfiction) and several other books. His novel Voyage to the North Star was a Book Of The Month Club Main Selection and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He has forthcoming a new thriller with Celadon Books, titled Granite Harbor (2024).
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Josh S. Cutler
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- politician
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Josh S. Cutler is an attorney and former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He represented the 6th Plymouth district of Massachusetts, which includes every precinct in the towns of Pembroke and Hanson, and precincts 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Duxbury. Cutler was elected on November, 6th 2012 becoming the first Democrat to hold the seat for the 6th Plymouth District dating back to the Reconstruction era.
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Ryan Cohan
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- pianistconductorjazz musicianbandleadercomposer
- Biography
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Ryan Cohan is a jazz pianist and composer. His style is a blend of world rhythms, traditional jazz, and classical.
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Hazel Stiebeling
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- nutritionist
- Biography
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Hazel Katherine Stiebeling was an American nutritionist who pioneered the development of USDA programs for nutrition including USDA daily dietary allowances of vitamins and minerals.
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Eleanor Weinstock
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eleanor Frank Weinstock was an American politician in the state of Florida.
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Amy Townsend-Small
- Occupations
- environmental scientist
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Amy Townsend-Small is the director of the Environmental Studies Program as well as an associate professor in the Department of Geology and Geography at the University of Cincinnati.
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Ron Karr
- Occupations
- writer
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Ron Karr is an American speaker, marketing consultant and author based in New Jersey. He was elected President of National Speakers Association for 2013–14 and he is the President of Karr Associates, Inc. Karr is a National Board Member of the NSA and a past president of the New York City Chapter of NSA. In 1995, the New York Tri-State Chapter presented him with the Golden Mike Award.
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Grace DeGennaro
- Occupations
- painter
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Grace DeGennaro is an American artist. She is best known for watercolors and paintings that explore “ritual, geometry, and growth through repeated forms, serial patterns, and iconic forms like circles and diamonds.”
