14 Notable alumni of
Union Institute & University
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Union Institute & University is 1836th in the world, 638th in North America, and 600th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from Union Institute & University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jane O'Meara Sanders
- Occupations
- academic administratorsocial worker
- Biography
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Mary Jane O'Meara Sanders is an American social worker, college administrator, activist, and political strategist. She was provost and interim president of Goddard College (1996–1997) and president of Burlington College (2004–2011). In 2017, she founded the think tank The Sanders Institute. She has been married to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders since 1988. She has also served as the first lady of Burlington, Vermont, during her husband's term as mayor.
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Portia Simpson-Miller
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller ON is a Jamaican former politician. She served as Prime Minister of Jamaica from March 2006 to September 2007 and again from 5 January 2012 to 3 March 2016. She was the leader of the People's National Party from 2005 to 2017 and the Leader of the Opposition twice, from 2007 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2017.
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Elizabeth Sackler
- Enrolled in Union Institute & University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in public history
- Occupations
- historianactivistbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Elizabeth Ann Sackler is a public historian, arts activist, and the daughter of Arthur M. Sackler and descendant of the Sackler family. She is the founder of the American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation and the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Gary Null
- Occupations
- radio personalityfilm directornutritionistanti-vaccine activist
- Biography
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Gary Michael Null is an American talk radio host and author who advocates pseudoscientific alternative medicine and produces a line of questionable dietary supplements.
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Arnold Mindell
- Enrolled in Union Institute & University
- In 1972 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in psychology
- Occupations
- writerpsychologistpsychotherapist
- Biography
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Arnold Mindell was an American author, therapist, and teacher in the fields of transpersonal psychology, body psychotherapy, social change, and spirituality. He is known for extending Jungian dream analysis to body symptoms, promoting ideas of 'deep democracy,' and interpreting concepts from physics and mathematics in psychological terms. Mindell is the founder of process oriented psychology, or process work, a development of Jungian psychology influenced by Taoism, shamanism, and physics.
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Bernie Krause
- Occupations
- musiciansound artist
- Biography
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Bernard L. Krause is an American musician and soundscape ecologist. In 1968, he founded Wild Sanctuary, an organization dedicated to the recording and archiving of natural soundscapes. Krause is an author, a bio-acoustician, a speaker, and natural sound artist who coined the terms geophony, biophony, and anthropophony.
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Stanley Aronowitz
- Enrolled in Union Institute & University
- Studied in 1975
- Occupations
- politiciansociologistcultural studies scholar
- Biography
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Stanley Aronowitz was an American sociologist, trade union official, and political activist. A professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center, his longtime political activism and cultural criticism was influential in the New Left movement of the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond. He was also an advocate for organized labor and a member of the interim consultative committee of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. In 2012, Aronowitz was awarded the Center for Study of Working Class Life's Lifetime Achievement Award at Stony Brook University.
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Phillip Lopate
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Phillip Lopate is an American film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher.
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Danny K. Davis
- Enrolled in Union Institute & University
- In 1977 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherteacher
- Biography
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Daniel K. Davis is an American politician who is the U.S. representative from Illinois's 7th congressional district, elected in 1996. The district serves much of western Chicago, as well as the Loop. It also includes several of Chicago's inner western suburbs, such as Bellwood, Oak Park, and River Forest. Davis is a Democrat, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and a former member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
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Michael Klare
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency (Metropolitan). His 2019 book is, All Hell Breaking Loose: the Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (Metropolitan). Klare also teaches at Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Brother Blue
- Occupations
- street artisttelevision actorvoice actor
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Hugh Morgan Hill, also known as Brother Blue, was an American educator, storyteller, actor, musician, and street performer based principally in the Boston area. After serving as First Lieutenant from 1943 to 1946 in the segregated United States Army in World War II and being honorably discharged, he received a BA from Harvard College in 1948 (cum laude in Social Relations), was accepted into the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) before transferring to receive a MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a Ph.D. from the Union Institute. While performing frequently at U.S. National Storytelling Festivals and flown abroad by organizations and patrons from England to Russia and the Bahamas, Brother Blue regularly performed on the streets around Cambridge, most notably in Harvard Square. He was the Official Storyteller of Boston and of Cambridge by resolutions of both city councils.
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Gary Dorrien
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- Anglican priesttheologian
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Gary John Dorrien is an American social ethicist and theologian. He is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and Professor of Religion at Columbia University, both in New York City, and the author of 25 books on ethics, social theory, philosophy, theology, politics, and intellectual history.
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David Cortright
- Enrolled in Union Institute & University
- In 1975 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in political science
- Occupations
- soldieracademicpeace activistnon-fiction writer
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David Cortright is an American scholar and peace activist. He is a Vietnam veteran who is currently Professor Emeritus and special adviser for policy studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 22 books. Cortright has a long history of public advocacy for disarmament and the prevention of war.
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Elizabeth Lipski
- Occupations
- nutritionist
- Biography
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Elizabeth Lipski is a clinical nutritionist and author of several books on nutrition and digestion.
