List of Connecticut College alumni
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This is a list of notable alumni of Connecticut College.
Literature and poetry
Michael Collier ('76): Poet Laureate of Maryland, 2001–2004; Director of The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College
Dobby Gibson ('93): poet
Aracelis Girmay ('99): poet
Cecelia Holland ('65): novelist
Gayl Jones ('72): novelist, poet, playwright
William Lychack ('88): novelist
Luanne Rice ('77): novelist
Authors and writers
Sloane Crosley ('00): best-selling author; essayist; publicist with Vintage Books
David Grann ('89): journalist and best-selling and staff writer at The New Yorker
Joshua Green ('94): senior national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek and a weekly columnist for the Boston Globe
Jazmine Hughes ('12): writer and editor; currently a story editor at The New York Times Magazine
Nan Kempner ('52): socialite, contributing editor of Vogue
Elizabeth Peer ('57): journalist; first female foreign bureau chief at Newsweek
A. B. Stoddard ('89): journalist, political commentator, associate editor of The Hill
Academia
Edward Burger ('85): professor of mathematics, Williams College
Deborah Carr ('88): distinguished professor of sociology, Boston University, member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Martha Chen: lecturer in public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Cynthia Enloe ('60): research professor of international relations and women's studies, Clark University
Haden Guest ('93): director of the Harvard Film Archive, and lecturer at Harvard University
David Haussler ('75): professor at University of California, Santa Cruz, member of National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Roxanne Johnson: chemist working at United States Environmental Protection Agency
Mark Samuels Lasner: Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware
Shelley Taylor ('68): social psychologist, pioneer in health psychology, winner of Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from APA
Ellen Vitetta ('64): director, Cancer Immunobiology Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center National Acad. Sciences; Institute of Medicine; American Acad. Arts and Sciences
Design, art, and art history
Agnes Gund: philanthropist, art patron and collector, advocate for arts education
Christine Y. Kim: associate curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; former associate curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem
Peter Som ('93): fashion designer, winner of the 2002 Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation prize
Marcia Tucker: first female curator of the Whitney Museum; founding director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art
Television and radio
H. Jon Benjamin ('88): actor, comedian and writer best known for his voice-over roles
Molly Cheek ('73): It's Garry Shandling's Show
Lee Eisenberg ('99): writer and producer for The Office and the film Year One
Chris Gifford ('81): co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning children's series Dora the Explorer
Scott Lowell: actor, Queer as Folk
Leland Orser ('82): actor
Christof Putzel ('01): award-winning journalist and correspondent for Al Jazeera America
Joan Rivers: actress, comedian; attended CC briefly, then transferred to Barnard College
Susan Saint James: actress, Kate & Allie; attended CC, did not graduate
Sam Seder: writer, actor, political commentator, radio host on Air America
Alec Sulkin ('95): writer and executive producer on Family Guy, The Orville and the 85th Academy Awards
Wellesley Wild ('94): writer and executive producer on Family Guy, The Orville and the 85th Academy Awards
Film, theater and dance
Chrystelle Trump Bond: dancer, choreographer, author, and dance historian
Ted Chapin ('72): president and executive director, Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization
Charles Chun ('90): actor; has appeared in Criminal Minds, Scrubs, Everybody Loves Raymond, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and How I Met Your Mother
David Dorfman (MFA '81): Professor of Dance, chair of Dance Department, choreographer of modern dance
Sean Fine ('96): winner of Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for Inocente; director of Academy Award-nominated feature documentary War/Dance
Jeffrey Finn ('92): Broadway producer, nominated for 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for On Golden Pond
Matthew Gentile ('12): film director and screenwriter, American Murderer
Judy Irving ('68): Emmy Award and Sundance-winning filmmaker
Raja Feather Kelly ('09): dancer and choreographer and serves as the artistic director of the New Brooklyn Theatre
Leland Orser ('82): actor and director known for Taken, Taken 2 and Se7en
Estelle Parsons ('49): stage, film, and television actor; winner of 1967 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Bonnie and Clyde
Kevin Wade ('76): screenwriter, Working Girl, Meet Joe Black
National Theater Institute alumni (accredited by Connecticut College)
Greg Allen
Emily Bergl
Adam Bock (The Receptionist)
Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue)
Jack Coleman (Heroes)
Rachel Dratch (SNL)
Chris Elliott (SNL)
Paul Hodes
Kristina Klebe
John Krasinski (The Office)
Jeremy Piven (Grosse Point Blank, PCU)
Michael Portnoy
Sam Robards
Kate Robin (Six Feet Under)
Mark Teschner
Music
Sean Greenhalgh ('01): member of indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Robbie Guertin ('02): member of indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Vance Gilbert ('79): singer-songwriter, folk musician
Chris Harford: singer, songwriter
Alec Ounsworth ('00): member of indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Lee Sargent ('00): member of indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Tyler Sargent ('00): member of indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Henrik Takkenberg ('90): musician, songwriter, producer
Government, law and public policy
Debo Adegbile ('91): lawyer in private practice who also serves as a Commissioner for the United States Civil Rights Commission
Esther Batchelder (1919): nutritionist, home economist, head of Food and Nutrition division of the US Department of Agriculture
Helen Lehman Buttenwieser ('27): lawyer, member of Lehman family
Nina F. Elgo ('84): judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court
Marie L. Garibaldi ('56): associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
Catherine Gregg: philanthropist and First Lady of New Hampshire (1953–1955)
Mary Ann Handley: Connecticut state senator
Dorcas Hardy ('68): commissioner of the Social Security Administration
Joanne Head: New Hampshire state representative
Bruce Hoffman ('76): corporate chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency, director of the RAND Corporation's Washington Office, professor at Georgetown University
Jay Hooper ('16): Vermont State Representative
Joan R. Kemler ('47): first woman to serve as Connecticut State Treasurer (1986–87)
Suzi Oppenheimer ('56): New York state senator
Erik Raven ('96), United States Under Secretary of the Navy
Sean Spicer ('93): 30th White House Press Secretary
Jay Stamper ('95): Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from South Carolina
Susan Thomases ('65): attorney, presidential adviser
Patricia McGowan Wald ('48): U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia judge; member of International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; member of the Iraq Intelligence Commission
Kimba Wood ('66): federal judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Business
Tim Armstrong ('93): CEO of America Online (AOL); former Google Inc.
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