78 Notable alumni of
SUNY at Purchase College
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SUNY at Purchase College is 615th in the world, 225th in North America, and 207th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 78 notable alumni from SUNY at Purchase 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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Stanley Tucci
- Enrolled in SUNY at Purchase College
- In 1982 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in acting
- Occupations
- voice actorstage actoractortelevision actorfilm actor
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Stanley Tucci Jr. is an American actor. Known as a character actor, he has played a wide variety of roles, earning numerous accolades for his work.
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Josh Hartnett
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- actortelevision actorfilm actorstage actorenvironmentalist
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Joshua Daniel Hartnett is an American actor. He began his career on ABC's drama series Cracker (1997–1998), after which he became known as a teen idol through starring parts in films such as Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, The Faculty (both 1998), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Pearl Harbor, O, Black Hawk Down (all 2001), and 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002).
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Wesley Snipes
- Occupations
- stage actoractorkaratekafilm producersinger
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Wesley Trent Snipes is an American actor and martial artist. In a film career spanning more than thirty years, Snipes has appeared in a variety of genres, such as numerous thrillers, dramatic feature films, and comedies, though he is best known for his action films. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his work in The Waterdance (1992) and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in the film One Night Stand (1997). Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $3.6 billion worldwide.
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Constance Wu
- Occupations
- television actorfilm directoractorfilm actor
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Constance Wu is an American actress. Wu's breakthrough role came with the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020), which earned her four nominations at the Critics' Choice Television Awards. For leading the romantic comedy-drama film Crazy Rich Asians (2018), she became the fourth Asian woman to be nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
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Ving Rhames
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- actortelevision actorcharacter actorfilm actorvoice actor
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Irving Rameses Rhames is an American actor. Born and raised in Harlem, New York City, he studied drama at SUNY Purchase before transferring to the Juilliard School, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1983. After early stage work in Shakespeare and contemporary plays, he made his screen debut in 1985 and gained attention through roles in Jacob's Ladder (1990), The People Under the Stairs (1991), and as Marsellus Wallace in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994). Rhames achieved further recognition as Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series, appearing in all eight installments.
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Parker Posey
- Occupations
- musicianfilm actormandolinisttelevision actorsinger
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Parker Christian Posey is an American actress. Known for playing eccentric characters in independent films, she was named "Queen of the Indies" by Time in 1997. She has received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Independent Spirit Awards.
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Edie Falco
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Edith Falco is an American actress. A prominent figure in American television, she is known for her roles on stage and screen and has received numerous accolades including four Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as a nomination for a Tony Award. She is the most nominated performer in the Screen Actors Guild Awards history.
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Alexandra Hedison
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- photographerfilm actorstage actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Alexandra Hedison is an American photographer, director, and actress. She is married to actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster.
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Moby
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- photographerpianisttelevision actorfilm producerrecord producer
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Richard Melville Hall, known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom".
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Melissa Leo
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- voice actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Melissa Chessington Leo is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Critics' Choice Awards.
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Shea Whigham
- Occupations
- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Shea Whigham is an American actor best known for portraying Elias "Eli" Thompson in the drama series Boardwalk Empire. He also appeared in the first season of True Detective and the third season of Fargo and in numerous films, including Silver Linings Playbook, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Joker.
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Mitski
- Occupations
- singer
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Mitsuki Laycock, also known as Mitski Miyawaki, and known professionally as Mitski, is an American singer-songwriter. She self-released her first two albums, Lush (2012), and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), while studying composition at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music. Her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, was released in 2014 on the label Double Double Whammy.
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Regina Spektor
- Occupations
- composerguitaristlyricistfilm directorpianist
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Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian-born American singer, songwriter, and pianist.
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Jason Ralph
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
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Jason Ralph is an American actor and theater producer. Ralph began his career in theater, most notably performing in Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway and off-Broadway and producing The Woodsman. From 2015 to 2019, he starred as Quentin Coldwater in the Syfy television series The Magicians. He has also had recurring roles on shows including Aquarius and Younger.
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David Graeber
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- trade unionistanthropologistcultural anthropologistuniversity teacherethnologist
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David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist and anarchist social and political activist. His influential work in social and economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), The Utopia of Rules (2015), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time.
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Kirk Acevedo
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Kirkland M. Acevedo is an American actor best known as Miguel Alvarez in Oz, Joe Toye in Band of Brothers, and FBI Agent Charlie Francis on Fringe. His best-known films are The Thin Red Line, Dinner Rush and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He also was José Ramse on 12 Monkeys (2015–18), as well as Ricardo Diaz / The Dragon on Arrow (2017–19).
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Rochelle Aytes
- Occupations
- modeltelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
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Rochelle Aytes is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as April Malloy on the ABC drama series Mistresses and as the voice of Rochelle in the critically acclaimed video game Left 4 Dead 2 (2009). Aytes also starred in the auto-biography story film of TLC titled CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story as Perri "Pebbles" Reid, short-lived series Drive and The Forgotten (2009–10), as well as Criminal Minds and Work It. In film, Aytes has appeared in White Chicks, Madea's Family Reunion and Trick 'r Treat. Aytes also had a recurring role as Agent Greer, an ex-CIA officer, on the CBS television series Hawaii Five-0. From 2019 to 2024, Aytes played Nichelle Carmichael in the CBS action series S.W.A.T.. Since 2025, she has portrayed Dr. Mary Morstan in the CBS mystery-medical drama series Watson.
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Seth Gilliam
- Enrolled in SUNY at Purchase College
- Studied in 1990
- Occupations
- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Seth Gilliam is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Ellis Carver on The Wire, Clayton Hughes on Oz, Dr. Alan Deaton on Teen Wolf, and Father Gabriel Stokes on The Walking Dead.
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Amanda Seales
- Occupations
- podcastersongwriteractivistmedia personalitysinger
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Amanda Ingrid Seales, formerly known by the stage names Amanda Diva and Mendacious D, is a Grenadian-American actress. From 2017 to 2021, she starred in the HBO comedy series Insecure. In 2019, HBO released her first stand-up comedy special, I Be Knowin. Then, in 2020, Seales launched Smart Funny & Black, a comedy gameshow that showcases Black culture, history, and experience. Seales was also one of the co-hosts of the syndicated daytime talk show, The Real.
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Steven Weber
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- television directorfilm actorstage actortelevision actoractor
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Steven Robert Weber is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Brian Hackett on the television series Wings, and as Dr. Dean Archer on NBC’s Chicago Med. He also voiced Charlie B. Barkin in All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series, and portrayed Jack Torrance in the TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining. He had a recurring role on iZombie as Vaughn du Clark. He played Mayor Douglas Hamilton on NCIS: New Orleans in a recurring role and starred as Sergeant First Class Dennis Worcester in Hamburger Hill (1987).
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David Herman
- Occupations
- postdoctoral researcheractor
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David Herman is an American actor and comedian. He was an original cast member on MADtv from 1995 to 1997 and played Michael Bolton in Office Space.
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Janel Moloney
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Janel Moloney is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Donna Moss on the television series The West Wing, a role for which she received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2002 and 2004. From 2014 to 2017, she starred in the television series The Leftovers.
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Susie Essman
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- television writertelevision producervoice actorstand-up comedianfilm screenwriter
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Susan Essman is an American comedian, actress, producer, and writer. She is best known for her role as Susie Greene on Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000–2024), as the voice of Mittens in Bolt (2008), and as Bobbi Wexler on Broad City (2009–2011).
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Jay O. Sanders
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Jay Olcutt Sanders is an American film, theatre and television actor and playwright. He frequently appears in plays off-Broadway at The Public Theatre. He has received a Drama Desk Award and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.
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Malcolm Goodwin
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- television directorfilm producerfilm actorfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Malcolm Goodwin is an American actor, known for his role as Clive Babineaux in The CW supernatural comedy-drama series iZombie (2015–2019).
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Mel Rodriguez
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Melvin Dimas Rodríguez is an American actor and comedian, best known for starring as Nurse Patsy de la Serda on the HBO comedy Getting On, as Todd Rodriguez on the Fox comedy The Last Man on Earth, and as Ernie Gomes on the Showtime drama On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Other notable works include recurring as Marco Pasternak on AMC's Better Call Saul and co-starring on the short-lived Fox sitcoms Running Wilde and Enlisted. In 2021, Rodriguez appeared in the crime television series CSI: Vegas.
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Terry Serpico
- Occupations
- stunt performertelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Terry Serpico is an American film and television actor.
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Kali Hawk
- Occupations
- television actoractorfilm actorjewelry designer
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Kali Hawk is an American actress, comedian, model and jewelry designer. She has starred in films such as Fifty Shades of Black, Couples Retreat, Bridesmaids and Tyler Perry Presents Peeples. She recurred as Shelby in New Girl and co-starred in the first two seasons of the Adult Swim series Black Jesus.
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Jonathan Cahn
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- religious writerpastor
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Jonathan David Cahn is an American Messianic rabbi, author, and novelist known for his debut novel The Harbinger. He is the founder and leader of the Beth Israel Worship Center in Wayne, New Jersey. His ministry weaves together contemporary American politics with right-wing Christian beliefs and the text of the Christian Bible. He is a controversial figure among Christians, Jews, and secular historians.
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Mizuo Peck
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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Mizuo Peck is an American actress. She is best known for playing Sacagawea in the Night at the Museum film series.
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Chris Wedge
- Enrolled in SUNY at Purchase College
- Studied in 1981
- Occupations
- film directordirectoractoranimatorexecutive producer
- Biography
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John Christian Wedge is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for being the lead animator of the sci-fi action film Tron (1982), co-founding the now-defunct animation studio Blue Sky Studios, and directing the short film Bunny (1998) and the feature films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005) and Epic (2013). Wedge has received two Academy Awards nominations: one for Bunny, for which he won Best Animated Short; and Ice Age, nominated for Best Animated Feature. He also created and voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise (2002–present).
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Bill Sage
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- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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William Sage III is an American actor. He is known for his collaborations with director Hal Hartley. Sage has appeared in more than 90 movies, most notably American Psycho (2000), We Are What We Are (2013), Every Secret Thing (2014), and Wrong Turn (2021).
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Mike Maronna
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- cinematographertelevision actorpodcasteractorfilm actor
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Michael C. Maronna is an American actor, who has appeared in several television programs and films. He is best known for his roles as "Big Pete" Wrigley on the television series The Adventures of Pete & Pete and as Jeff McCallister in the movie Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).
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Hal Hartley
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- theatrical directorcomposerfilm producerfilm directorauthor
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Hal Hartley is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and composer who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and '90s. His films include The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), Simple Men (1992), Amateur (1994) and Henry Fool (1997), which are notable for deadpan humour and offbeat characters quoting philosophical dialogue. Hartley frequently scores his own films, sometimes under the pseudonym Ned Rifle, and his soundtracks regularly feature music by Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and PJ Harvey.
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Gregory Crewdson
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- photographeruniversity teacher
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Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer who makes large-scale, cinematic, psychologically charged prints of staged scenes set in suburban landscapes and interiors. He directs a large production and lighting crew to construct his images.
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Dan Deacon
- Occupations
- composermusician
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Daniel Deacon is an American composer and electronic musician based in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Thorgy Thor
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- violinistdrag queen
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Thorgy Thor is the stage name of Shane Thor Galligan, an American drag queen and musician who came to international attention on the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and on the third season of All Stars.
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Jamil Walker Smith
- Occupations
- dub actortelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
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Jamil Walker Smith is an American actor, director, producer and writer. His best known role is as the voice of Gerald, a fourth grader and Arnold's best friend in the Nickelodeon animated TV series Hey Arnold!. He also appeared on several shows like Sister, Sister; Girlfriends; Bones; The X-Files; and The Bernie Mac Show. He is an actor by trade and writes, acts and directs his own short film projects. He played Master Sergeant Ronald Greer in both seasons of Stargate Universe.
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Jessica Valenti
- Enrolled in SUNY at Purchase College
- 1996-2000 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English and journalism
- Occupations
- editing staffopinion journalistwriterjournalistblogger
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Jessica Valenti is an American feminist writer. She was the co-founder of the blog Feministing, which she wrote for from 2004 to 2011. Valenti is the author of six books: Full Frontal Feminism (2007), He's a Stud, She's a Slut (2008), The Purity Myth (2009), Why Have Kids? (2012), Sex Object: A Memoir (2016), and Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win (2024). She also co-edited the books Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape (2008), Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World (2020). Between 2014 and 2018, Valenti was a columnist for The Guardian. She currently runs the Abortion, Every Day newsletter. Fellow feminist Michelle Goldberg described her as "one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation".
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Jeffrey Lewis
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- singer-songwritercomics artistsingermusician
- Biography
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Jeffrey Lewis is an American singer-songwriter and comic book artist.
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Adetokumboh M'Cormack
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- actortelevision actorfilm director
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Frederick Adetokumboh M'Cormack, sometimes credited as Ade McCormack, Frederick McCormack, or Adetokumoh McCormack, is a Sierra Leonean-born American actor, known for his roles in the television series Lost and Heroes.
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Philip Anthony-Rodriguez
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- actortelevision actorvoice actor
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Philip Anthony-Rodriguez is an American actor known for his roles on Jake 2.0 as Kyle Duarte, the voice of disc jockey Maurice Chavez in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and as Jetstream Sam in the 2013 video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
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Langhorne Slim
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- musicianguitarist
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Langhorne Slim is an American singer-songwriter. He attended high school at Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, part of the SUNY system.
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Todd Graff
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- stage actoractortelevision actordirectorwriter
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Todd Graff is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing the musical comedy films Camp (2003), for which he was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Bandslam (2009), and Joyful Noise (2012). Graff is also known for his supporting roles in the science fiction films The Abyss (1989) and Strange Days (1995), as well as the black comedy crime film Death to Smoochy (2002).
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Danny Leiner
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- screenwriterfilm directortelevision directorfilm producer
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Daniel Leiner was an American film and television director. He was best known for directing the stoner comedy films Dude, Where's My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.
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Nomi Prins
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- writerbusinesspersonjournalist
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Nomi Prins is an American economist, author, journalist, and public speaker who writes about Wall Street and the US economy.
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Görel Crona
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- actorscreenwriterfilm director
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Görel Elisabeth Crona is a Swedish film director, actress and singer/songwriter. She had her first role in the Sveriges Television series Varuhuset.
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Mal Blum
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 38)
- Occupations
- songwriter
- Biography
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Mal Blum is an American songwriter, musician, writer and performer from New York. Blum has released six full-length albums, either self-released or on independent record labels, the most recent being The Villain.
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Azazel Jacobs
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Azazel Jacobs is an American film director and screenwriter. His feature films include The GoodTimesKid (2005), Terri (2011), The Lovers (2017), French Exit (2020), and His Three Daughters (2023).
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Imani Coppola
- Occupations
- singersongwriterrappermusicianviolinist
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Imani Francesca Coppola is an American singer-songwriter and violinist. Her debut single "Legend of a Cowgirl" reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart in 1997. Her debut album, Chupacabra, released by Columbia Records, was praised by critics and appeared on the US Heatseekers Albums chart. In 2001, Coppola appeared as a guest artist on the Baha Men single "You All Dat", which broke the top 10 in Australia and gave Coppola her second entry on the Billboard Hot 100 to date.
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Bill Charlap
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- pianistcomposerjazz musician
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William Morrison Charlap is an American jazz pianist and educator.
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Jenny Owen Youngs
- Occupations
- composersinger-songwritersingerpodcaster
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Jenny Owen Youngs is an American singer-songwriter. She has released four albums and a handful of EPs both independently and via Nettwerk Records, and has toured worldwide. Youngs is also a songwriting collaborator whose cuts include the 2018 Panic! at the Disco single "High Hopes," as well as songs with Brett Dennen, Ingrid Michaelson, Shungudzo, Pitbull, and others.
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Anna Anthropy
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- electronic literature writerwritervideo game developerdesignerjournalist
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Anna Anthropy is an American video game designer, role-playing game designer, and interactive fiction author whose works include Mighty Jill Off and Dys4ia. From 2016 - 2025 she was the game designer in residence at the DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media. She has also gone by the name Auntie Pixelante.
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Donald Margulies
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- writerplaywright
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Donald Margulies is an American playwright and academic. In 2000, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Dinner with Friends.
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Gabriel Garzon-Montano
- Occupations
- singer-songwritermulti-instrumentalist
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Gabriel Lorenzo Garzón-Montano is a Colombian-French-American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. After earning a spotlight by opening for Lenny Kravitz's European tour in 2014 and being sampled in the Drake song "Jungle" in 2015, part of a Grammy nominated and double platinum album, Garzón-Montano released his debut album, Jardín in 2017 through Stones Throw Records. Garzón-Montano has performed at major U.S. and international venues. His music style blends R&B, soul, funk, and as of 2020, urban-reggaeton.
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Carl Safina
- Occupations
- biologistwriterresearcherecologistoceanographer
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Carl Safina is an American ecologist and author of books and other writings about the human relationship with the natural world. His books include Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace; Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel; Song for the Blue Ocean; Eye of the Albatross; The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World; Alfie and Me; and others. He is the founding president of the Safina Center, and is inaugural holder of the Carl Safina Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University. Safina hosted the PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina.
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Brian Gaskill
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- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Brian Richard Gaskill is an American actor.
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Victor Axelrod
- Occupations
- record producercomposermusician
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Victor Axelrod is an American musician, producer, and audio engineer from Brooklyn, New York. Since the mid-1990s, he has worked primarily in the genres of reggae, Afrobeat and soul, recording and producing under his own name and using the alias Ticklah.
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Jenny O
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- singer-songwritercomposer
- Biography
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Jennifer Ognibene, known by her stage name Jenny O., is an American singer-songwriter, based in Los Angeles, California.
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Katherine Bradford
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Katherine Bradford, née Houston, is an American artist based in New York City, known for figurative paintings, particularly of swimmers, that critics describe as simultaneously representational, abstract and metaphorical. She began her art career relatively late and has received her widest recognition in her seventies and eighties. Critic John Yau characterizes her work as independent of canon or genre dictates, open-ended in terms of process, and quirky in its humor and interior logic.
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John Treacy Egan
- Occupations
- stage actoractor
- Biography
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John Treacy Egan is an American actor and singer known for starring in the Broadway productions of The Producers and The Little Mermaid.
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Edward W. Hardy
- Enrolled in SUNY at Purchase College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Music
- Occupations
- instrumentalistviolinistmusical theatre composermusic directorclassical composer
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Edward W. Hardy is an American composer, music director, violinist and violist. He is known as the composer, co-conceiver, music director, and violinist of the Off-Broadway show The Woodsman and is the owner of The Black Violin.
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Michelle Beck
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- actorstage actorfilm director
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Michelle Beck is an American actress based in New York City known for her performances in Shakespeare plays and other stage works. She has also appeared in film and television.
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Kaori Ito
- Occupations
- filmmakerdancertheatrical directorcreatorchoreographer
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Kaori Ito (born 1979) is a Japanese dancer and choreographer who is active in France. She founded the dance company Hime.
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Wooden Wand
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- musicianrecording artistsinger-songwriter
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Wooden Wand is the stage name of singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth, who has recorded under his given name as well as the name WAND. The style of music recorded by Toth and his many incarnations has drawn on a variety of both conventional and experimental folk and rock influences, including psychedelic folk, freak folk and indie. Though he was a significant player in the New Weird America trend of the early to mid-2000s along with Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, Joanna Newsom, and collaborators The Vanishing Voice, Toth has been difficult to pigeonhole in one genre; recent releases have been identified as acid folk, free jazz, outlaw country, and country-tinged rock. Toth has appeared on labels including Kill Rock Stars, Ecstatic Peace!, Rykodisc, and Young God.
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Dean Haspiel
- Occupations
- caricaturistillustratorcomics writer
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Dean Edmund Haspiel is an American comic book artist, writer, and playwright. He is known for creating Billy Dogma, The Red Hook, and for his collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar on his American Splendor series as well as the graphic novel The Quitter, and for his collaborations with Jonathan Ames on The Alcoholic and HBO's Bored to Death. He has been nominated for numerous Eisner Awards, and won a 2010 Emmy Award for TV design work.
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The Potash Twins
- Occupations
- musician
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Adeev and Ezra Potash professionally known as The Potash Twins are American identical twin musicians and television personalities from Omaha, Nebraska. The twins have hosted several TV shows on Food Network, Bravo TV and Travel Channel.. They have performed with John Legend, Jonas Brothers, Diplo, Snoop Dogg, Lil Baby, Jon Batiste, Robert Glasper, Major Lazer and Wynton Marsalis. In 2025, the twins were named Nebraska’s first Composer Laureates by Governor Jim Pillen.
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Champian Fulton
- Occupations
- singerpianist
- Biography
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Champian Fulton is an American jazz singer and pianist.
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Joel Rubin
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, klezmer musician, ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Jewish music. Since becoming involved in the klezmer revival in the late 1970s, he has been researching, teaching and performing klezmer music and related genres. He has been a member of, or performed with, such groups as Brave Old World, the Joel Rubin Ensemble, and Veretski Pass.
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Brian MacDevitt
- Occupations
- lighting designer
- Biography
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Brian MacDevitt is a lighting designer and educator. He has worked extensively on Broadway and Off Broadway, as well as touring, Regional theatre, and Industrial productions. He won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for his work on the 2002 Broadway revival of Into The Woods. He also won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play three times and the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Musical twice, most recently in 2024 for The Outsiders.
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Jordan McLean
- Occupations
- university teachertrumpetercomposermusic educatorbandleader
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Jordan McLean is a New York City-based composer, arranger, bandleader, trumpeter, producer and educator. McLean has been active in the professional music world since 1995.
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Nicholas Benson
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- designertypographerlithographer
- Biography
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Nicholas Waite "Nick" Benson is a third generation American stone carver, stone letterer and owner of The John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island. He was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.
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Nasreen Pervin Huq
- Occupations
- nutritionistactivist
- Biography
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Nasreen Pervin Huq was a prominent women's activist and campaigner for women's rights and social justice. She died in an accident at her home in Dhaka, when she was crushed by a vehicle. The vehicle was driven by her chauffeur, who was picking her up to go to work as Director of the UK non-governmental organisation Action Aid. Though her death was ruled accidental, some think the driver was paid off by a foreign figure.
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Jeanne Darst
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jeanne Darst is an American author. She is a regular contributor to This American Life and has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and Vogue. Her memoir, Fiction Ruined My Family, was published in October 2011 by Riverhead Books.
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Ingrid Calame
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- painterdraftspersonartist
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Ingrid Calame is an American artist based in Los Angeles, known for her abstract, map-like paintings inspired by human detritus. Her works are in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, as well as many private collections. Calame was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.
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Jill Bargonetti
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- scientist
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Jill Bargonetti is an American professor at the City University of New York with dual appointments at Hunter College and The Graduate Center. Her research is focused on tumor suppressor protein p53 and its role as an oncogene when it is mutated in breast cancer.
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Mary Ruth Ray
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- musician
- Biography
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Mary Ruth Ray was an internationally known classical musician who received critical acclaim throughout the United States, Europe and Russia.
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Adam Rafferty
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- musicianjazz musician
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Adam Rafferty is an American guitarist and composer. He is known for his cover versions of pop songs by Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and the Beatles and for the use of beatboxing while playing guitar.
