100 Notable alumni of
Swarthmore College
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Swarthmore College is 284th in the world, 119th in North America, and 112th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Swarthmore 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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Alexandra Grant
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- Studied in 1995
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Alexandra Grant is an American visual artist who examines language and written texts through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and other media. She uses language and exchanges with writers as a source for much of that work. Grant examines the process of writing and ideas based in linguistic theory as it connects to art and creates visual images inspired by text and collaborative group installations based on that process. She is based in Los Angeles.
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Stephen Lang
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Stephen Lang is an American actor. He is known for roles in films such as Manhunter (1986), Gettysburg and Tombstone (both 1993), Gods and Generals (2003), Public Enemies, Avatar and The Men Who Stare at Goats (all 2009), Conan the Barbarian (2011) and Don't Breathe (2016).
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Sally Ride
- Occupations
- astronautphysicistastrophysicistwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32.
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Michael Dukakis
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherlawyer
- Biography
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Michael Stanley Dukakis is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history, after Spiro Agnew. He was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in the 1988 election, losing to the Republican nominee, Vice President George H. W. Bush.
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Christiana Figueres
- Occupations
- economistclimate activistpoliticiandiplomatpodcaster
- Biography
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Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen is a Costa Rican diplomat who has led national, international and multilateral policy negotiations. She was appointed Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in July 2010, six months after the failed COP15 in Copenhagen. During the next six years she worked to rebuild the global climate change negotiating process, leading to the 2015 Paris Agreement, widely recognized as a historic achievement.
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Jonathan Franzen
- Occupations
- opinion journalistwriternovelistessayist
- Biography
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Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedom (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist". Franzen's latest novel Crossroads was published in 2021, and is the first in a projected trilogy.
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Alice Paul
- Occupations
- suffragettewomen's rights activistjurist
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Alice Stokes Paul was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Paul initiated, and along with Lucy Burns and others, strategized events such as the Woman Suffrage Procession and the Silent Sentinels, which were part of the successful campaign that resulted in the amendment's passage in August 1920.
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James A. Michener
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- In 1929 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English and history
- Occupations
- autobiographerscreenwriterwriternovelistteacher
- Biography
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James Albert Michener was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations, set in particular geographic locales and incorporating detailed history. Many of his works were bestsellers and were chosen by the Book of the Month Club. He was also known for the meticulous research that went into his books.
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Chris Van Hollen
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- In 1982 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in philosophy
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Christopher Van Hollen, Jr. is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maryland, a seat he has held since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district from 2003 to 2017 and as a Maryland state senator from 1995 to 2003.
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Robert D. Putnam
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Robert David Putnam is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Ted Nelson
- Occupations
- professorsociologistphilosopher
- Biography
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Theodor Holm Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. According to a 1997 Forbes profile, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac, or 'the Orson Welles of software'."
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Carl Levin
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- Studied in 1956
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Carl Milton Levin was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2015.
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Josh Green
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- 1988-1992 graduated with Bachelor of Science in anthropology
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Joshua Booth Green is an American politician and physician serving since 2022 as the ninth governor of Hawaii. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2018 to 2022 as the 15th lieutenant governor of Hawaii, from 2008 to 2018 as a member of the Hawaii Senate, and from 2004 to 2008 as a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives.
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Carol Gilligan
- Occupations
- women's rights activistwriterphilosopherpsychologist
- Biography
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Carol Gilligan is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist, best known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships.
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Maochun Yu
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Miles Maochun Yu is an American historian and strategist who served as the principal China policy and planning adviser to former United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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David Baltimore
- Occupations
- virologistuniversity teachermicrobiologist
- Biography
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David Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He is a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he served as president from 1997 to 2006. He founded the Whitehead Institute and directed it from 1982 to 1990. In 2008, he served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Beth Littleford
- Occupations
- film actorvoice actortelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Elizabeth Littleford is an American actress, comedian and television personality. She is best known as one of the original correspondents on The Daily Show on Comedy Central from 1996 to 2000. Littleford has also appeared in the shows I'm in the Band and Dog with a Blog.
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Robert Zoellick
- Occupations
- bankerpoliticiandiplomateconomistadviser
- Biography
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Robert Bruce Zoellick is an American public official and lawyer who was the 11th president of the World Bank Group, a position he held from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2012. He was previously chairman of international advisors at Goldman Sachs from 2006 to 2007, United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2005 to 2006, and U.S. Trade Representative from 2001 to 2005. Prior to those posts, from 1985 to 2001 he served in a variety of capacities in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and the presidential campaign of George W. Bush, in addition to positions in various think tanks and academia.
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David Lewis
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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David Kellogg Lewis was an American philosopher. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton University from 1970 until his death. He is closely associated with Australia, whose philosophical community he visited almost annually for more than 30 years.
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Michael Meeropol
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Michael Meeropol is an American retired professor of economics. He is the older son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted communist spies. Born in New York City as Michael Rosenberg, Meeropol spent his early childhood living in New York and attending local school there.
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John Hopfield
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- In 1954 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- psychologistneuroscientistartificial intelligence researcherbiologistphysicist
- Biography
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John Joseph Hopfield is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982. He is known for the development of the Hopfield network. Previous to its invention, research in artificial intelligence (AI) was in a decay period or AI winter, Hopfield's work revitalized large-scale interest in this field.
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Isabel Briggs Myers
- Occupations
- writernovelistpsychologist
- Biography
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Isabel Briggs Myers was an American writer who co-created the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) with her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs. The MBTI is one of the most-often used personality tests worldwide; over two million people complete the questionnaire each year. Isabel Briggs Myers typed herself as an INFP (Mediator).
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David Gale
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- Studied in 1943
- Occupations
- mathematicianeconomist
- Biography
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David Gale was an American mathematician and economist. He was a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the departments of mathematics, economics, and industrial engineering and operations research. He has contributed to the fields of mathematical economics, game theory, and convex analysis.
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Robert P. George
- Occupations
- political philosopheruniversity teacherlawyerphilosopherjurist
- Biography
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Robert Peter George is an American legal scholar, political philosopher, and public intellectual who serves as the sixth McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He lectures on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties, philosophy of law, and political philosophy.
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Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Occupations
- university teacherwritersociologistpsychologist
- Biography
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Arlie Russell Hochschild is an American professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and writer. Hochschild has long focused on the human emotions that underlie moral beliefs, practices, and social life generally. She is the author of ten books, including Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right (The New Press, September 10, 2024), which explores life in a struggling Appalachian town, and focuses on the political appeal to undeserved lost pride. The book was chosen by Barack Obama as one of his ten "favorite books of 2024." It is a follow-up to her last book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, a New York Times Bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award. Journalist Derek Thompson described it as "a Rosetta stone" for understanding the rise of Donald Trump.
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Arthur Chu
- Occupations
- columnistblogger
- Biography
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Arthur Chu is an American columnist and former contestant on Jeopardy!, a syndicated U.S. game show. Chu first became known for the unusual style of play he adopted during his eleven-game winning streak on Jeopardy!. When the shows aired, Chu attracted criticism from many for jumping from category to category rather than selecting clues in sequential order, a strategy known as the "Forrest Bounce", named for former champion Chuck Forrest.
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Peter Schickele
- Occupations
- writerfilm score composercomposerimpressionistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Peter Schickele was an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, which he presented as being composed by the fictional P.D.Q. Bach. He also hosted a long-running weekly radio program called Schickele Mix.
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Alexander Mitchell Palmer
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Alexander Mitchell Palmer was an American attorney and politician who served as the 50th United States attorney general from 1919 to 1921. He is best known for overseeing the Palmer Raids during the Red Scare of 1919–20.
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Kevin Hassett
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Kevin Allen Hassett is an American economist who has been the Director of the National Economic Council since 2025. He was the senior advisor and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2017 to 2019. He coauthored Dow 36,000, published in 1999, which argued that the stock market was about to have a massive swing upward and would reach 36,000 by 2004. Shortly thereafter, the dot-com bubble burst, causing a massive decline in stock market prices. The Dow did not reach 36,000 until late 2021.
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Malcolm Browne
- Occupations
- journalistphotographer
- Biography
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Malcolm Wilde Browne was an American journalist and photographer, best known for his award-winning photograph of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức in 1963.
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Michael Hardt
- Occupations
- theoristresearcherliterary criticjournalistphilosopher
- Biography
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Michael Hardt is an American political philosopher and literary theorist. Hardt is best known for his book Empire, which was co-written with Antonio Negri.
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John C. Mather
- Occupations
- astronomerastrophysicistresearcherphysicist
- Biography
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John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot.
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Josef Joffe
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Josef Joffe is a former publisher-editor of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper. His second career has been in academia. Appointed Senior Fellow of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies in 2007 (a faculty position), he is also the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution and a courtesy professor of political science at Stanford University. Since 1999, he has been an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.
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Mark Vonnegut
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Mark Vonnegut is an American pediatrician and author. He is the son of writer Kurt Vonnegut. He is the brother of Edith Vonnegut and Nanette Vonnegut. He described himself in the preface to his 1975 book as "a hippie, son of a counterculture hero, BA in religion, (with a) genetic disposition to schizophrenia."
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Nancy Roman
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- In 1946 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Nancy Grace Roman was an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first Chief of Astronomy throughout the 1960s and 1970s, establishing her as one of the "visionary founders of the US civilian space program".
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Edward C. Prescott
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Edward Christian Prescott was an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". This research was primarily conducted while both Kydland and Prescott were affiliated with the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University. According to the IDEAS/RePEc rankings, he was the 19th most widely cited economist in the world in 2013. In August 2014, Prescott was appointed an Adjunct Distinguished Economic Professor at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. Prescott died of cancer on November 6, 2022, at the age of 81.
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Rudy Rucker
- Occupations
- computer scientistscience fiction writerwriteruniversity teachernovelist
- Biography
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Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which (Software and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. He edited the science fiction webzine Flurb until its closure in 2014.
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Diane di Prima
- Occupations
- writertranslatorautobiographerpoet
- Biography
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Diane di Prima was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Her magnum opus is widely considered to be Loba, a collection of poems first published in 1978 then extended in 1998.
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David L. Cohen
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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David L. Cohen is an American businessman, attorney, lobbyist, and diplomat who had served the United States ambassador to Canada. He previously served as the senior advisor to the CEO of Comcast Corporation. Until January 1, 2020, he was senior executive vice president and chief lobbyist for Comcast. He also served as chairman of the board of trustees for the University of Pennsylvania and was chief of staff to former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell.
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Christian B. Anfinsen
- Occupations
- university teacherbiophysicistbiochemistchemist
- Biography
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Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr. was an American biochemist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation (see Anfinsen's dogma).
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Howard Temin
- Occupations
- physiciangeneticistbiochemistvirologist
- Biography
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Howard Martin Temin was an American geneticist and virologist. He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.
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Drew Pearson
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Andrew Russell Pearson was an American columnist, noted for his syndicated newspaper column "Washington Merry-Go-Round". He also had a program on NBC Radio titled Drew Pearson Comments. He was known for his approach towards high-level politicians, such as senators, cabinet members, generals and American presidents.
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David G. Bradley
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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David G. Bradley is a partner in The Atlantic and Atlantic Media, and the owner of the National Journal Group. Before his career as a publisher, Bradley founded the Advisory Board Company and Corporate Executive Board, two consulting companies based in Washington, D.C.
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Ralph Linton
- Occupations
- anthropologistsociologist
- Biography
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Ralph Linton was an American anthropologist of the mid-20th century, particularly remembered for his texts The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955). One of Linton's major contributions to anthropology was defining a distinction between status and role.
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Christina Paxson
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Christina Hull Paxson is an American economist and public health expert serving as the 19th president of Brown University. Previously, she was the dean of Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics & Public Affairs at Princeton University.
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Lucy Lang
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- In 2003 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Lucy Lang is an American attorney, author, and the 11th Inspector General of New York.
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Eben Moglen
- Occupations
- historiancomputer scientistlawyerprogrammer
- Biography
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Eben Moglen is an American legal scholar who is professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center.
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Anne Schuchat
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Anne Schuchat is an American medical doctor. She is a former rear admiral and assistant surgeon general in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She also served as the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In May 2021, Schuchat stepped down from her post.
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Elizabeth S. Anderson
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Elizabeth Secor Anderson is an American philosopher. She is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and specializes in political philosophy, ethics, and feminist philosophy.
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Detlev Bronk
- Occupations
- physicianbiophysicisteducator
- Biography
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Detlev Wulf Bronk was a prominent American scientist, educator, and administrator. He is credited with establishing biophysics as a recognized discipline. Bronk served as president of Johns Hopkins University from 1949 to 1953 and as president of The Rockefeller University from 1953 to 1968. Bronk also held the presidency of the National Academy of Sciences between 1950 and 1962.
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby
- Occupations
- visual artistpainter
- Biography
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby // is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles, California. Through her art, Akunyili Crosby "negotiates the cultural terrain between her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria, creating collage and photo transfer-based paintings that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds". In 2017, Akunyili Crosby was awarded the prestigious Genius Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Clark Kerr
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Clark Kerr was an American economist and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and twelfth president of the University of California.
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Kenneth Turan
- Occupations
- journalistfilm critic
- Biography
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Kenneth Turan is an American retired film critic, author, and lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. He was a film critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1991 until 2020 and was described by The Hollywood Reporter as "arguably the most widely read film critic in the town most associated with the making of movies".
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Dean Baker
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistscientist
- Biography
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Dean Baker is an American macroeconomist who co-founded the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) with Mark Weisbrot. Baker has been credited as one of the first economists to have identified the 2007–08 United States housing bubble.
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Iqbal Quadir
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Iqbal Z. Quadir is a Bangladeshi-American entrepreneur who has taught at Harvard Kennedy School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the brother of Bangladeshi-American entrepreneur and artist Kamal Quadir.
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Ken Hechler
- Occupations
- politicianhistorianmilitary personnelprofessor
- Biography
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Kenneth William Hechler was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented West Virginia's 4th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1977 and was West Virginia Secretary of State from 1985 to 2001.
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David D. Clark
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- information scientistuniversity teachercomputer scientist
- Biography
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David Dana "Dave" Clark is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer who has been involved with Internet developments since the mid-1970s. He currently works as a senior research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
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William Saletan
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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William Saletan is an American writer for The Bulwark.
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Phil Weiser
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianacademicjurist
- Biography
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Philip Jacob Weiser is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 39th Attorney General of Colorado since 2019. He is the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications, executive director and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, and Dean Emeritus at the University of Colorado Law School. He previously served in the Obama and Clinton Administrations in the White House and Justice Department. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected Attorney General for the State of Colorado in the 2018 election, defeating Republican George Brauchler on November 6, 2018. He was re-elected in 2022.
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Leland Stanford MacPhail Jr
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Leland Stanford MacPhail Jr. was an American front-office executive in Major League Baseball. MacPhail was a baseball executive for 45 years, serving as the director of player personnel for the New York Yankees, the president and general manager of the Baltimore Orioles, chief aide to Commissioner of Baseball William Eckert, executive vice president and general manager of the Yankees, and president of the American League.
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Thomas W. Laqueur
- Occupations
- sexologistwriterman of lettersanthropologisthistorian
- Biography
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Thomas Walter Laqueur is an American historian, sexologist and writer. He is the author of Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation and Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud as well as many articles and reviews. He is the winner of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award, and is currently the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, located in Berkeley, California. Laqueur was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015.
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Neil Gershenfeld
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistcomputer scientist
- Biography
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Neil Adam Gershenfeld is an American professor at MIT and the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab to the MIT Media Lab. His research studies are predominantly focused in interdisciplinary studies involving physics and computer science, in such fields as quantum computing, nanotechnology, and personal fabrication. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Scientific American has named Gershenfeld one of their "Scientific American 50" for 2004 and has also named him Communications Research Leader of the Year. Gershenfeld is also known for releasing the Great Invention Kit in 2008, a construction set that users can manipulate to create various objects.
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Gilbert Harman
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Gilbert Harman was an American philosopher, who taught at Princeton University from 1963 until his retirement in 2017. He published widely in philosophy of language, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, ethics, moral psychology, epistemology, statistical learning theory, and metaphysics. He and George Miller co-directed the Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory. Harman taught or co-taught courses in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics.
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Sandra Faber
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- In 1966 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- astronomeruniversity teacherastrophysicist
- Biography
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Sandra Moore Faber is an American astrophysicist known for her research on the evolution of galaxies. She is the University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works at the Lick Observatory. She has made discoveries linking the brightness of galaxies to the speed of stars within them and was the co-discoverer of the Faber–Jackson relation. Faber was also instrumental in designing the Keck telescopes in Hawaii.
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Marcella Nuñez-Smith
- Born in
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United States - Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- In 1996 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- medical researcherphysician
- Biography
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Marcella Nunez-Smith is an American physician-scientist. She is C.N.H Long Professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, where she serves as the inaugural Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and founding director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center. She also holds joint appointments at the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale School of Management. After co-chairing the Biden-Harris transition's COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021, she was selected by President Joe Biden to serve as Senior Advisor to the White House COVID-19 Response Team and Chair of the Presidential COVID-19 Equity Task Force.
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Peter Deutsch
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- In 1979 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politiciandirectorlawyerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Peter Russell Deutsch is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. Deutsch was a Democratic Representative from Florida's 20th congressional district from 1993 until 2005.
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Ronald Grigor Suny
- Occupations
- historianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Ronald Grigor Suny is an American-Armenian historian and political scientist. Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Michigan and served as director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, 2009 to 2012 and was the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan from 2005 to 2015, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History (2015–2022), and is Emeritus Professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago.
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Martin Weitzman
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Martin Lawrence Weitzman was an economist and a professor of economics at Harvard University. He was among the most influential economists in the world according to Research Papers in Economics (RePEc). His latest research was largely focused on environmental economics, specifically climate change and the economics of catastrophes.
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William Foote Whyte
- Years
- 1914-2000 (aged 86)
- Occupations
- anthropologistsociologist
- Biography
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William Foote Whyte was an American sociologist chiefly known for his ethnographic study in urban sociology, Street Corner Society. A proponent of participant observation, he lived for four years in an Italian community in Boston while a Junior Fellow at Harvard researching social relations of street gangs in Boston's North End.
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Justin Hall
- Occupations
- journalistblogger
- Biography
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Justin Hall is an American journalist and entrepreneur, best known as a pioneer blogger.
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Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson, known as Cathy Wilkerson, is an American far-left radical who was a member of the 1970s radical group called the Weather Underground Organization (WUO). She came to the attention of the police when she was leaving the townhouse belonging to her father after it was destroyed by an explosion on March 6, 1970. Members of WUO had been constructing a nail bomb in the basement of the building, intending to use it in an attack on a non-commissioned officers dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey that night. Wilkerson, already free on bail for her involvement in the Chicago "Days of Rage" riots, avoided capture for 10 years. She surrendered in 1980 and pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of dynamite. She was sentenced to up to three years in prison and served 11 months.
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Andries van Dam
- Occupations
- engineeruniversity teachercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Andries "Andy" van Dam is a Dutch-American professor of computer science and former vice-president for research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system, Hypertext Editing System (HES) in the late 1960s. He co-authored Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice along with J.D. Foley, S.K. Feiner, and John Hughes. He also co-founded the precursor of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference.
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Marshall Curry
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
- Biography
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Marshall Curry is an American documentary director, producer, cinematographer and editor. His films include Street Fight, Racing Dreams, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, Point and Shoot, and A Night at the Garden. His first fiction film was the Academy Award-winning short film The Neighbors' Window (2019).
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Frank H. Easterbrook
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Frank Hoover Easterbrook is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as a United States circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 1985. He was the Seventh Circuit's chief judge from 2006 to 2013.
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Maxine Singer
- Enrolled in Swarthmore College
- In 1952 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- molecular biologistbiologistbiochemistchemist
- Biography
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Maxine Frank Singer was an American molecular biologist and science administrator. She was known for her contributions to solving the genetic code, her role in the ethical and regulatory debates on recombinant DNA techniques (including the organization of the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA), and her leadership of Carnegie Institution of Washington.
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Freebo
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Daniel Friedberg, better known by the stage name Freebo, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and producer noted primarily for his work with Diamond David Lee Roth, Bonnie Raitt. He is also a session musician who has recorded and performed with Ringo Starr, John Mayall, John Hall, Aaron Neville, Dr. John, Willy DeVille, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Maria Muldaur, Kate & Anna McGarrigle and many others.
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Roman Jackiw
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachertheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Roman Wladimir Jackiw was a Polish-born American theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist.
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Oleg Troyanovsky
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky was ambassador of the Soviet Union to Japan and China and was the Soviet Permanent Representative to the United Nations (from 1976 to 1986).
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Thomas B. McCabe
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Thomas Bayard McCabe was an American businessman who served as the 8th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1948 to 1951. McCabe also served as president and CEO of Scott Paper Company for 39 years.
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Dawn Porter
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Dawn Porter is an American documentary filmmaker and founder of production company Trilogy Films. Her documentaries have screened at The Sundance Film Festival and other festivals as well as on HBO, CNN, Netflix, Hulu, PBS and elsewhere. She has made biographical documentaries about a number of historical figures including Bobby Kennedy, Vernon Jordan, and John Lewis and has collaborated with Oprah and Prince Harry.
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Peter J. Weinberger
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematician
- Biography
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Peter Jay Weinberger is a computer scientist best known for his early work at Bell Labs. He now works at Google.
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John Freeman
- Occupations
- authorliterary critic
- Biography
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John Freeman is an American writer and a literary critic. He was the editor of the literary magazine Granta from 2009 until 2013, the former president of the National Book Critics Circle, and his writing has appeared in almost 200 English-language publications around the world, including The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. He is currently an executive editor at the publishing house Knopf.
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H. C. Robbins Landon
- Occupations
- biographercomposermusicologistmusic historian
- Biography
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Howard Chandler Robbins Landon was an American musicologist, journalist, historian and broadcaster, best known for his work in rediscovering the huge body of neglected music by Haydn and in correcting misunderstandings about Mozart.
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Adam Haslett
- Occupations
- writernovelistshort story writer
- Biography
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Adam Haslett is an American fiction writer and journalist. His debut short story collection, You Are Not a Stranger Here, and his second novel, Imagine Me Gone, were both finalists for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy in Berlin. In 2017, he won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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Arianna J. Freeman
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Arianna Julia Freeman is an American lawyer from Pennsylvania who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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Mary Schroeder
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Mary Murphy Schroeder is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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Paul DiMaggio
- Occupations
- academicsociologist
- Biography
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Paul Joseph DiMaggio is an American educator, and professor of sociology at New York University since 2015. Previously, he was a professor of sociology at Princeton University.
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Charles Ruff
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Charles Frederick Carson Ruff was a prominent American lawyer based in Washington, D.C., and was best known as the White House Counsel who defended President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial in 1999.
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Diana Furchtgott-Roth
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Diana Furchtgott-Roth is an American economist who is adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University and a columnist. She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the United States Department of Transportation during the first Trump administration. She previously served as Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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Arnold Kling
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Arnold Kling is an American economist, scholar, and blogger known for his writings on EconLog, an economics blog, along with Bryan Caplan and David R. Henderson. Kling also has his own blog, askblog, which carries the motto: "taking the most charitable views of those who disagree." The "ask" in askblog stands for "Arnold S. Kling." He is an Adjunct Scholar for the Cato Institute and is affiliated with the Mercatus Center.
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Heidi Hartmann
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Heidi Irmgard Victoria Hartmann is an American feminist economist who is founder and president emerita of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), a research organization created to conduct women-centered, public policy research. She retired from her position as President and CEO in 2019.
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Norman Rush
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Norman Rush is an American writer most of whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s. He won the U.S. National Book Award and the 1992 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize for his novel Mating.
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Elizabeth Economy
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Elizabeth C. Economy is an American political scientist, foreign policy analyst, and expert on China's politics and foreign policy. She was a Senior Advisor for China to the Secretary of Commerce in the Biden administration and Senior Fellow (on leave) at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
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A. Elizabeth Jones
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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A. Elizabeth Jones is an American diplomat and government official who served as the United States Ambassador to Kazakhstan from 1995 to 1998 and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2001 to 2005. She was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador in 2004. Jones served as Chargé d'Affaires to India from 2022 to 2023. She had served Chargé d'Affaires to Egypt from October 9, 2023, to November 15, 2023.
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Michael Schudson
- Occupations
- communication scholarsociologist
- Biography
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Michael S. Schudson is professor of journalism in the graduate school of journalism of Columbia University and adjunct professor in the department of sociology. He is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is an expert in the fields such as journalism history, media sociology, political communication, and public culture.
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Phyllis Wise
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Phyllis M. Wise is a biomedical researcher. Most recently, she is serving as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer and President of Colorado Longitudinal Study.
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Elizabeth Martínez
- Occupations
- women's rights activistsocial activistcommunity organizereditor
- Biography
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Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez was an American Chicana feminist and a long-time community organizer, activist, author, and educator. She wrote numerous books and articles on different topics relating to social movements in the Americas. Her best-known work is the bilingual 500 years of Chicano History in Pictures, which later formed the basis for the educational video ¡Viva la Causa! 500 Years of Chicano History. Her work was hailed by Angela Y. Davis as comprising "one of the most important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporary era... [Martínez is] inimitable... irrepressible... indefatigable."
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Damon McMahon
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Damon Duell McMahon is an American indie rock musician and the primary member of the musical project Amen Dunes. Originally from Philadelphia, he is currently based in New York City.
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Helen Magill White
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Helen Magill White was an American classicist and academic. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in the United States.
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Armond Budish
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Armond D. Budish is an American politician, lawyer, and television host who served as Cuyahoga County Executive for two terms from 2015 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a four-term Ohio State Representative from the 8th district, and served as Speaker of the House from 2009 to 2011. He was the first Jewish representative to hold that office. He was re-elected to the House in 2010 and 2012, and thereafter was term-limited.
