49 Notable alumni of
University of Maryland - Baltimore County
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The University of Maryland - Baltimore County is 1453rd in the world, 508th in North America, and 476th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 49 notable alumni from the University of Maryland - Baltimore County sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Kathleen Turner
- Occupations
- theatrical directorfilm producerfilm actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Mary Kathleen Turner is an American actress. Known for her distinctive deep husky voice, she is the recipient of two Golden Globes, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Grammy, and two Tony Awards.
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Johnathon Schaech
- Occupations
- screenwritermodeltelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Johnathon Schaech is an American actor and screenwriter. He has been working as an actor since the early 1990s. He first gained recognition for his role in How to Make an American Quilt (1995). Other films include The Doom Generation (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), Hush (1998), Prom Night (2008), Phantom (2013), Marauders (2016) and The Night Clerk (2020).
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Jerome Adams
- Occupations
- anesthesiologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jerome Michael Adams is an American anesthesiologist and a former vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the 20th surgeon general of the United States from September 5, 2017, until January 20, 2021. Prior to becoming Surgeon General, he served as the Indiana state health commissioner, from 2014 to 2017.
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Duff Goldman
- Occupations
- chef
- Biography
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Jeffrey Adam "Duff" Goldman is an American businessman, pastry chef, television personality, and writer. He is the executive chef of Baltimore’s Charm City Cakes shop, which was featured in the Food Network reality television show Ace of Cakes, and Los Angeles’s Charm City Cakes West, which was featured in Food Network's Duff Till Dawn and "Cake Masters" series. His work has also been featured on the Food Network Challenge, Iron Chef America, Oprah, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Man v. Food, Buddy vs. Duff, Duff Takes the Cake, and Duff's Happy Fun Bake Time.
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Dan Patrick
- Occupations
- radio personalitypoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Dan Goeb Patrick is an American radio talk show host, television broadcaster, and politician serving since 2015 as the 42nd lieutenant governor of Texas under Governor Greg Abbott.
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Darrell Britt-Gibson
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Darrell Hadari Britt-Gibson is an American actor, known for his role as Darius "O-Dog" Hill on the HBO series The Wire. He has also appeared on the Showtime series Californication, the Starz series Power, the FX series You're the Worst, and the HBO series Barry and We Own This City. He has also starred in the films Keanu, 20th Century Women (2016), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and Judas and the Black Messiah (2021).
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Rabia Chaudry
- Born in
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Pakistan - Occupations
- lawyer
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Rabia Chaudry is a Pakistani-American attorney, author and podcast host. She is a family friend of Adnan Syed—who was the subject of the podcast Serial (2014)—and subsequently wrote a book about his case called Adnan’s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial (2016), which became a New York Times best seller. Chaudry co-hosts several podcasts, namely Undisclosed, a podcast on Syed's case and others.
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Sylvia Trent-Adams
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- military personnelnurse
- Biography
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Sylvia Trent-Adams is a retired U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps rear admiral, who last served as the principal deputy assistant secretary for health from January 2, 2019 to August 31, 2020. She previously served as the deputy surgeon general of the United States from October 25, 2015 to January 2, 2019. Trent-Adams also served as the acting surgeon general of the United States from April 21, 2017 to September 5, 2017. She retired from the U.S. Public Health Service on September 30, 2020 after over 33 years of combined uniformed service.
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Tony Harris
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Tony Harris is an American journalist, news anchor, and television producer. He was notable for his time as an anchor on Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera America, and CNN.
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Jairus Lyles
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jairus Lyles is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the UMBC Retrievers. He also competed for the VCU Rams in his freshman season but played a limited role before transferring. Prior to college, Lyles attended DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, where he was a three-star recruit. At UMBC, he earned all-conference honors for three consecutive years. He most notably led the Retrievers to a first-round victory over Virginia at the 2018 NCAA tournament, the first time a 16-seed defeated a 1-seed in men's tournament history.
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Brian Moran
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Brian William Moran is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. Moran played college baseball at the University of North Carolina. He was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the seventh round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut in 2019 with the Miami Marlins (for whom he's played in two separate stints) and has also played for the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Angels.
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James P. Clements
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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James Patrick Clements is an American academic administrator who served as the 15th president of Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. He assumed office on December 31, 2013, after serving as the president of West Virginia University for five years and as the provost and vice president of academic affairs for Towson University.
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Darnell Rogers
- Years
- 1997-.. (age 29)
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Shawnta Darnell Rogers Jr. is an American former college basketball player who last played for the UMBC Retrievers of the America East Conference. Standing 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 m), he is believed to be the shortest person ever to play Division I men's basketball.
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John A. Olszewski, Jr
- Enrolled in the University of Maryland - Baltimore County
- In 2017 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Anthony Olszewski Jr., also known by his nickname Johnny O, is an American politician who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland's 2nd congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 14th county executive of Baltimore County, Maryland, from 2018 to 2025.
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Adrienne A. Jones
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adrienne Alease Jones is an American politician who has served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from the 10th district since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the 107th Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2019 to 2025, becoming the first African-American and first woman to serve in that position in Maryland.
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Brian Dannelly
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision directorfilm directorfilm producertelevision producer
- Biography
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Brian Dannelly is a German born American film director and screenwriter best known for his work on the 2004 film Saved!
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K. J. Maura
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Kevin Joel Maura Colón is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player for Vaqueros de Bayamón of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He played college basketball for the UMBC Retrievers, spending his final two years of eligibility with the Retrievers, earning America East Defensive Player of the Year and All-Conference honors as a senior. Listed as a 5-foot-8, 140-pound point guard, he was measured as the lightest player in NCAA Division I basketball while at UMBC.
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Allan H. Kittleman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Allan H. Kittleman is an American Republican politician who was the ninth county executive for Howard County, Maryland from 2014 to 2018. Kittleman previously served as a Maryland State Senator from 2004 to 2014, representing the 9th district covering Howard and Carroll Counties, and was Senate Minority Leader from 2008 to 2011. He also previously served on the Howard County Council from 1998 to 2004.
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Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
- Born in
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Ghana - Enrolled in the University of Maryland - Baltimore County
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in mathematics
- Occupations
- writeractivist
- Biography
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Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is a Ghanaian-born American activist and writer. She is a co-founder and former CEO of the Sadie Collective, as well as a co-founder and co-organizer of Black Birders Week.
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Bassey Ikpi
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Bassey Ikpi listen is a Nigerian-born American spoken-word artist, writer, and mental health advocate. She has appeared on HBO's Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry five times and her poetry has opened shows for Grammy Award-winning artists. She's also the New York Times bestselling author of I'm Telling The Truth But I'm Lying. In 2020 she judged the Indiana Review Creative Nonfiction Prize. She also features on the OkayAfrica's 100 Women campaign 2020 honoree list, which celebrates women building infrastructure for future African generations.
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Andy Stack
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Andrew Brant "Andy" Stack is one of the founding members of the indie-rock duo Wye Oak and a solo artist under the moniker Joyero, as well as a remix artist and a composer and producer for film and commercial music. He has also performed as a member of EL VY, and Lambchop.
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Jay Witasick
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Gerald Alphonse "Jay" Witasick Jr. is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched all or parts of 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1996 to 2007, primarily as a relief pitcher.
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Gabriel Acevero
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gabriel Acevero is a Trinidadian–American organizer, activist and politician representing Maryland's 39th House district. On November 6, 2018, Acevero finished in first place with 31% of the vote and became the first openly gay Afro-Latino, and one of the youngest people, elected to the Maryland House of Delegates. Acevero is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Matt Watson
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Matthew Watson is an English former professional footballer who works as assistant coach for Major League Soccer side FC Dallas.
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David W. Lesch
- Biography
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David Warren Lesch is a lecturer, author and commentator on Middle East history and politics. He is the Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor of Middle East History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Lesch writes regularly for news publications and journals and has made frequent appearances on radio and television to discuss Middle East politics, with a particular focus on Syria. In 2012–2013, he co-founded, organized, and led the Harvard-NUPI-Trinity Syria Research Project alongside William Ury. The project was funded by the governments of Norway and Switzerland, and its Final Report was published by NUPI in 2013. He co-founded what in essence is the 2nd phase of this project in early 2014, along with Gerard McHugh, the founder and president of Conflict Dynamics International, based in Cambridge, MA. This 2nd phase is entitled the CDI-Trinity University Syria Initiative, and it is ongoing and funded by the government of Denmark. Both Syria projects have attempted to offer a better multi-dimensional understanding of the Syrian civil war as well as chart out possible pathways toward conflict resolution and sustainable governance. Dr. Lesch was also the number one draft pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1980 baseball winter draft as a pitcher.
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Elissa Washuta
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Elissa Washuta is a Native American author from the Cowlitz people of Washington State. She has written two memoirs about her young adulthood, Starvation Mode: a Memoir of Food, Consumption and Control and My Body is a Book of Rules, about her personal history with eating disorders and body dysmorphia. She writes about sexual assault, mental health issues as a young adult, and struggling with her identity within the Indigenous community of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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Kafui Dzirasa
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- psychiatristneuroscientist
- Biography
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Kafui Dzirasa is an American psychiatrist and Associate Professor at Duke University. He looks to understand the relationship between neural circuit malfunction and mental illness. He was a 2019 AAAS Leshner Fellow and was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.
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Kadeem Dacres
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Kadeem Dacres is an American former professional soccer player who played as a winger.
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Marla Streb
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Marla Streb is an American professional cyclist and was inducted in the mountain bike hall of fame in 2013. She has won a World Cup downhill in 2005 (Austria), twice won the Single Speed World Championship in 1999 and 2006 and also won the X-Games in 1999. Streb has written and published two books, appeared on the cover of Outside Magazine, and has been featured on network television and movies such as the IMAX movie Top Speed.
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James N. Mathias, Jr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James N. Mathias Jr. is an American politician from Ocean City, Maryland. Mathias served in the Maryland State Senate from 2011 until 2019, was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2006 to 2010, and served as mayor of Ocean City from 1996 until 2006.
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Mario Armstrong
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- radio personalitytelevision presenter
- Biography
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Mario Armstrong is an American radio and television talk show host, entrepreneur, podcaster and public speaker. Armstrong appears regularly on the Today show, CNN, HLN, the American Urban Radio Networks and NPR's Morning Edition. His self-titled radio show, "The Mario Armstrong Show", ran on Sirius XM Satellite Radio and in syndication for 3 years.
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Omolola Eniola-Adefeso
- Occupations
- chemical engineerbiomedical engineer
- Biography
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Omolola Eniola-Adefeso is a Nigerian-American chemical engineer and incoming Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago.
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Gail H. Bates
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gail Bates was a member of the Maryland Senate from 2015 to 2019 and a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2002 to 2015. She was selected to replace Robert Kittleman in the Maryland House of Delegates in February 2002 when Kittleman was selected to replace Chris McCabe in the Maryland State Senate. In a close election in 2018, Bates was defeated by non-profit executive Katie Fry Hester by 1.7 percentage points. Bates was nominated to serve on the state Board of Education by Gov. Larry Hogan in February 2019.
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Nabila Erian
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 85)
- Occupations
- singeractor
- Biography
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Nabila M. Erian is a professor of vocal sciences at the Cairo Conservatoire, Academy of Arts. Her career as a leading soprano opera singer debuted in 1960. She is also an expert on the history of Coptic music. Her latest research revolves around the continuity between the current practiced Coptic music and the Ancient Egyptian tradition. Erian advocates for the construction of a new modern state of the arts opera house at the New Cairo Administrative Capital.
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Steven Fischer
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Steven Thomas Fischer is an American film director, producer, and cartoonist. His work has been honored by the Directors Guild of America, The New York Festivals, the CINE Golden Eagle Awards, and Marquis Who's Who in Entertainment.
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Justin Jacobs
- Enrolled in the University of Maryland - Baltimore County
- In 2014 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- statistician
- Biography
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Justin Wayne Jacobs is an American statistician, currently serving as the Spatial Statistics Group Lead at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Jacobs is a former applied research mathematician at the National Security Agency, a Senior Basketball Researcher with the Orlando Magic, a Spatiotemporal Analytics Researcher with the Houston Rockets, and an independent sports analytics researcher. Noted for his research into geolocation, geospatial statistics and spatio-temporal statistics, Jacobs was awarded a National Intelligence Medallion from the ODNI in January 2014 by the Director of National Intelligence as well as the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE) in April 2014 by President Barack Obama.
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Karsonya Wise Whitehead
- Occupations
- university teacherfilmmakeractivist
- Biography
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Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead is an American educator, author, radio host, speaker, and documentary filmmaker who is known as the #blackmommyactivist. She is the founding director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice, a Professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland, and the host of Today With Kaye on WEAA. Whitehead is also an Opinion Editorial columnist for the Baltimore Afro-American.
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Jon S. Cardin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jon Steven Cardin is an American politician who has served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 11 since 2019, and previously from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he unsuccessfully ran for Attorney General of Maryland in 2014. Cardin is the nephew of U.S. Senator Ben Cardin.
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Diana West
- Biography
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Diana West is a leading lactation consultant and author specializing on the topic of breastfeeding.
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Mark Doms
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Mark Doms was the Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs for the Department of Commerce from January 2013 until September 2015. He was nominated by President Barack Obama on September 13, 2012 and was confirmed by the Senate on January 1, 2013 as one of the last acts of the 112th Congress. Prior to his confirmation, he was the United States Department of Commerce's Chief Economist.
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Mina Cheon
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Mina Cheon is a Korean American new media artist and scholar, producer and curator of cultural projects. Since 1997, she has lived between Baltimore, New York, and Seoul. MJ Standup Korean is the comedic stage name of Mina Cheon, a prominent Korean-American "Polipop" (Political Pop) artist, professor, and scholar based in New York.
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Joseph M. Reagle Jr
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- university teachernon-fiction writerpedagoguemedia scholarengineer
- Biography
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Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. is an American academic and writer focused on digital technology and culture, including Wikipedia, online comments, geek feminism, and life hacking. He is an associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University. He was an early member of the World Wide Web Consortium, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1998 and 2010 he was a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
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Vince D. Calhoun
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in the University of Maryland - Baltimore County
- In 2002 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- professor
- Biography
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Vince Daniel Calhoun is an American engineer and neuroscientist. He directs the Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, a partnership between Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Emory University, and holds faculty appointments at all three institutions. He was formerly the President of the Mind Research Network and a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico.
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Kay Banjo
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Olakunle "Kay" Banjolisten is an American soccer player who currently plays for Maryland Bobcats FC.
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Jeremy Penn
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Jeremy Penn is an American artist, who lives in New York City.
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Yehuda Fulda
- Enrolled in the University of Maryland - Baltimore County
- Studied in 1992-1995
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Yehuda Fulda is a businessman involved in various ventures in the US, UK, Italy and Israel. He is a managing partner of TGX Holdings Archived 2016-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, a diversified holding company that includes real estate, consumer goods, telecom and venture capital.
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Richard Chisolm
- Occupations
- cinematographer
- Biography
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Richard Chisolm is an American cinematographer and film-maker based in the DC/Baltimore, Maryland area. Chisolm is most experienced in documentaries and actuality-style dramas. He has done additional camera work for feature films, television series, commercials and corporate and educational videos.
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Abdoulaye A. Djimde
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Abdoulaye Djimdé is a Malian microbiologist and immunologist serving as a professor in Mali. He is the President of both the Pathogens Genomic Diversity Network Africa and the African Association for Research and Control of Anti-Microbial Resistance (AAAMR).
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Dan Marohl
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- lacrosse player
- Biography
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Dan Marohl is a former indoor lacrosse player for the Minnesota Swarm in the National Lacrosse League. Marohl attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he was teammates with former Philadelphia Wings teammate Jeff Ratcliffe.
