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Vassar College
Vassar College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college situated in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. Founded as a women's college in 1861, it became coeducational in 1969. Today, Vassar is ranked as one of the most selective liberal arts colleges in the country by U.S. News and...
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Martha R. Ingram
Martha Robinson Rivers Ingram (born 20 August 1935) is the chairman of Ingram Industries, chairman of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, and a noted philanthropist and patron of the arts. She was married to the late E. Bronson Ingram, who...
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Linda Fairstein
Linda Fairstein (born 1947) is an American author and former prosecutor focusing on crimes of violence against women and children. She served as head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's office from 1976 until 2002 and is the...
Vicki Miles-LaGrange
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Anne Armstrong
Anne Legendre Armstrong (December 27, 1927 – July 30, 2008) was a United States diplomat and politician, and the first female Counselor to the President; she served in that capacity under both the Ford and Nixon administrations. She was also the...
Jane Fonda
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Robert H. Edmunds, Jr.
Robert Holt Edmunds, Jr. (born April 17, 1949) is an American judge, currently an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Born in Danville, Virginia, Edmunds moved to Greensboro, North Carolina at the age of 8. He attended Woodberry...
Lloyd Braun
Lloyd Braun (born 1958) is a television and Internet media executive who currently runs the entertainment firm BermanBraun.
Braun's first major success came with producer David Chase for their idea for the show The Sopranos. He went on to serve as...
Julia Lathrop
Julia Lathrop (June 29, 1858 - April 15, 1932), was an American social reformer in the area of education.
The daughter of William Lathrop, she was born in Rockford, Illinois. Julia's father had helped establish the Republican Party and served in the...
Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller
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Gloria Cordes Larson
Gloria Cordes Larson is a former politician and lawyer based in Boston. As of July 1, 2007, she was the first woman to be selected President of Bentley College (now Bentley University) in Waltham, Massachusetts. Larson, a Southerner, received her...
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1893-1986) was an American author of children's fiction and poetry. Her novel The Cat Who Went to Heaven won the 1931 Newbery Medal.
Born May 31, 1893, in Buffalo, New York, Coatsworth attended Buffalo Seminary for High...
Rachel Beck
Rachel Beck is an American reporter for the Lebanon Express in Lebanon, Oregon. Born 5 April, 1982, she was raised in Sisters, Oregon. In 2000, she graduated from Sisters High School. She graduated from Vassar College with the class of 2004. While...
Caroline Benn
Caroline Middleton DeCamp Benn (13 October 1926 – 22 November 2000), formerly Viscountess Stansgate, was an educationalist and writer, and wife of the British Labour politician Tony Benn (formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate).
Born Caroline Middleton...
Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum (born: 1970 in California) is an American author, essayist, and journalist. Although she was born in California, Daum grew up primarily in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and her Master of...
Mildred H. McAfee
Mildred Helen McAfee Horton (May 12, 1900 - September 2, 1994) was an American academic who served during World War II as first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy.
McAfee was born in...
Nancy Harkness Love
Nancy Harkness Love (1914 - 1976) was an American pilot and commander during World War II.
The daughter of a wealthy physician, Harkness developed an intense interest in aviation at an early age. At 16 she took her first flight and earned her pilot...
Rachel Simmons
Rachel Simmons, born August 10, 1974, is an American author of the book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls published in 2002. (ISBN 0156027348)
Simmons graduated from Vassar College and was a Rhodes Scholar at Lincoln College,...
Inez Milholland
Inez Milholland Boissevain (August 6, 1886 - November 25, 1916) was a suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent, and public speaker who greatly influenced the women's movement in America.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she grew up...
Jesse Ball
Jesse Ball (born June 7 1978) is an American poet and novelist. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short prose, and drawings.
After attending public school, Jesse Ball attended Vassar College, where he studied literature, and poetry writing...
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained an A.B....
Isabelle Liberman
Isabelle Yoffe Liberman (1918 - 1990) was an American psychologist, born in Latvia, who was an expert on reading disabilities, including dyslexia. Isabelle Liberman received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and her doctorate from Yale...
Jean Webster
Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster) was born July 24, 1876 and died June 11, 1916. She was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her most well-known books feature lively and...
Vera Rubin
Vera (Cooper) Rubin (born 23 July 1928) is an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. Her opus magnum was the uncovering of the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by...
Lee Zalben
Lee Zalben, nicknamed the Peanut Butter Guy, (born 1973, in Philadelphia) is a cookbook author and the creator of Peanut Butter & Co., a sandwich shop in Greenwich Village, New York City. Founded in 1998, the shop specializes in gourmet peanut...
Bala Garba Jahumpa
Bala Garba Jahumpa (born 20 July 1958 in Banjul) is a Gambian politician and diplomat.
Jahumpa attended 2 high schools in Gambia from 1970 to 1975, then Suffield Academy and Vassar College in the U.S. from 1975 to 1980. He graduated from Vassar with...
Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict (born Ruth Fulton, June 5, 1887–September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist.
She was born in New York City, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1909. She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying...
David Wong Louie
David Wong Louie (Chinese: 雷祖威; pinyin: Léi Zǔwēi) is an American writer of novels and short stories.
He received an M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa in 1981 and a B.A. from Vassar College in 1977. He...
Joe Hill
Joseph Hillstrom King (born June 4, 1972, Hermon, Maine), better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer.
Hill is the second child of authors Stephen and Tabitha King. He grew up in Bangor, Maine. His younger...
Aimee Friedman
Aimee Friedman (born 1979) is the author of several young adult novels published by Scholastic Inc. and S&S.; Her novels South Beach (2004) (a New York Times bestseller), French Kiss (2005), and Hollywood Hills (2007)and also The Year My Sister Got...
Scott Kauffman
Scott L. Kauffman (born 1956) is an American business manager.
He was born in Princeton, New Jersey to Ellwood and Shirley Kauffman, and grew up with his sister Jane and brothers Geoffrey and Matthew. In 1973 he appeared briefly in Steven E. de...
Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey (September 9, 1878 – October 8, 1914) was an American poet. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was raised in Rochester, New York, daughter of Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey, who had been transferred from New York City to...
Marguerite Moreau
Marguerite Moreau (born April 25, 1977) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles on the television series Blossom and her role in The Mighty Ducks series of films. She has also made appearances on the popular television series...
Richard Miniter
Richard Miniter (born 1967), was the editorial page editor and Vice President of Opinion at The Washington Times from March until October 2009. He is also the author of two New York Times best selling books, Losing bin Laden and Shadow War. He is a...
Hope Davis
Hope Davis (born March 23, 1964) is an American actress. She has starred in more than 20 feature films, including About Schmidt, Flatliners, Mumford, American Splendor, The Lodger and Next Stop Wonderland.
Davis, second of three children, was born...
Margaret Floy Washburn
Margaret Floy Washburn (July 25, 1871 – October 29, 1939), leading American psychologist in the early 20th century, was best known for her experimental work in animal behavior and motor theory development. She was the first woman to be granted a PhD...
Mary Watson Whitney
Mary Watson Whitney (September 11, 1847 – January 20, 1921) was an American astronomer and for 22 years the head of the Vassar Observatory.
Whitney was born in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1847. She went to school in Waltham and graduated from the...
Jamshed Bharucha
Jamshed J. Bharucha has been Provost and Senior Vice President of Tufts University since August, 2002. As Provost, Bharucha is the chief academic officer of the university, overseeing the seven schools, Tisch College and cross-school programs. The...
Bernadine Healy
Dr. Bernadine Healy, M.D. (b. August 4, 1944) is a Harvard and Johns Hopkins educated physician and cardiologist and a former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has been a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, professor and dean...
Mary McCarthy
Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American author, critic, and political activist.
Born in Seattle, Washington, to Roy Winfield McCarthy and his wife, the former Therese Preston, McCarthy was orphaned at the age of six...
Urvashi Vaid
Urvashi Vaid (October 8, 1958 in New Delhi, India) is an American activist who has worked for over 25 years promoting civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons.
Vaid was born in India and moved to the United States at age eight...
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (8 February 1911 – 6 October 1979) was an American poet and writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, and a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artist's retreat in Great...
Margaret Leech
Margaret Kernochan Leech (November 7, 1893 – February 24, 1974) also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American author and historian, who won two Pulitzer Prizes in history, for her books Reveille in Washington (1942) and In the Days of McKinley ...
Lida Shaw King
Lida Shaw King (September 15, 1868, Boston – January 10, 1932, Providence) was an American classical scholar and college dean. She graduated from Vassar College in 1890 and from Brown University (A.M.) in 1894 and continued her graduate studies at...
Muriel Rukeyser
Muriel Rukeyser (15 December 1913 – 12 February 1980) was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her "exact...
Antonia Maury
Antonia Coetana de Paiva Pereira Maury (March 21, 1866–January 8, 1952) was an American astronomer who published an important early catalog of stellar spectra.
Antonia Maury was born in Cold Spring, New York. With the exception of the surname Maury,...
Michael Specter
Michael Specter (born 1955) is an American journalist who has been a staff writer, focusing on science and technology, and global public health at The New Yorker since September 1998. He has also worked at the Washington Post and the New York Times....
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, bohemian lifestyle and her many love...
Toni Grant
Toni Grant is an American psychologist and talk radio host. She was one of the first licensed psychologists to have her own radio talk show, and a pioneer in the advice-giving genre.
Born in New York City in 1942, Grant received her B.A. degree from...
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was the wife of the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. She was later...
Elizabeth Williams Champney
Elizabeth Williams Champney (1850 – 1922) was an American author of miscellaneous books, including the "Witch Winnie Books," the series of "Vassar Girls Abroad," Romance of the Feudal Chäteaux (1900), and many more. She was the wife of J. W....
Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era.
Streep made her professional...
Jonathan Togo
Jonathan Frederick Togo (born August 25, 1977) is an American actor best known for his role in CSI: Miami as Ryan Wolfe.
Togo was born in Rockland, Massachusetts, the son of Sheila, a store owner, and Michael Togo, a graphic designer. Togo's mother...
Justin Long
Justin Jacob Long (born June 2, 1978) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Jeepers Creepers, Dodgeball, Waiting..., Live Free or Die Hard, He's Just Not That Into You, Drag Me To Hell, the NBC dramedy series Ed, and his...
Alice Huyler Ramsey
Alice Huyler Ramsey (11 November 1886 – 10 September 1983) was the first woman to drive across the United States from coast to coast.
Ramsey was born Alice Taylor Huyler, the daughter of John Edwin Huyler, a lumber dealer, and Ada Mumford Farr. She...
Rhoda Metraux
Dr. Rhoda Bubendey Metraux (1914–2003), was a prominent anthropologist in the area of cross-cultural studies, specializing in Haitian voodoo and the Iatmul of New Guinea. She collaborated with Alfred Metraux, on mutual studies of Voodoo in Haiti....
Catherine Bauer Wurster
Catherine Krause Bauer Wurster (May 11, 1905 in Elizabeth, New Jersey – 1964) was a leading member of a small group of idealists who called themselves "housers" because of their commitment to improving housing for low-income families. In her...
Avery Cardoza
Avery Cardoza (born 1957) is an author and publisher. He owns Cardoza Publishing, which is partner company to Cardoza Games.
Avery Cardoza was born in Brooklyn, New York. At an early age he had a propensity for mathematics, which he studied at...
Matthew Kauffman
Matthew Kauffman (b. October 5, 1961 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
From a very young age, Kauffman was fascinated with journalism, earning him a job at his local newspaper. In 1979,...
Harriet Zuckerman
Harriet Zuckerman is an American sociologist who specializes in the sociology of science. She is Senior Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and professor emerita of Columbia University.
Harriet Zuckerman received her A.B. degree from...
Ethan Zohn
Ethan Zohn (born November 12, 1973, Lexington, Massachusetts) is an American reality television series contestant who won $1,000,000 on Survivor: Africa, the third season of the reality TV series Survivor. Zohn also appeared on the All-Stars edition...
