Alumnae and Alumni
Notable alums include:
| Name | Year of graduation | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Shirley Abrahamson | 1950 | Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice |
| Randy Altschuler | 1989 | co-founder, OfficeTiger; U.S. Congressional Candidate, New York's 1st congressional district |
| Birdie Amsterdam | 1918 | first female New York State Supreme Court Justice |
| Patty Chang Anker | 1988 | blogger, author, publicist |
| Charles Ardai | 1987 | founder and CEO, Juno; managing director, D.E. Shaw; author, editor, publisher/co-founder of Hard Case Crime, TV producer of Haven |
| Martina Arroyo | 1953 | opera singer, fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; member, National Council of the Arts; director, Carnegie Hall and Hunter College |
| Eli Attie | 1985 | TV writer and producer, Emmy winner and former chief speechwriter for Al Gore |
| Rachel Axler | 1995 | TV writer, two-time Emmy winner and playwright |
| Ashok Bhalla aka Dead Air Dave | 1994 | radio personality |
| Kyle Baker | 1983 | comic book artist/writer, cartoonist, animator and satirist |
| Phyllis Beck | unknown | former Vice-Dean, University of Pennsylvania Law School |
| Etel Billig | unknown | actress and founder of Illinois Theatre Center |
| Jeremy Blachman | 1996 | author, journalist, lawyer |
| Angela Bofill | 1972 | jazz singer |
| Michael A. Burstein | 1987 | science fiction writer |
| Hortense Calisher | 1928 | novelist, President American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| Sewell Chan | 1994 | deputy editor, New York Times |
| Perry Chen | 1994 | co-founder, Kickstarter |
| Christopher Collet | 1986 | actor |
| Olivia Cole | 1960 | actress, first African-American Emmy winner |
| Nicholas Confessore | 1994 | political correspondent, New York Times |
| Jon Daniels | 1995 | Texas Rangers General Manager |
| Amy Davidson | 1988 | Senior editor at The New Yorker magazine |
| Lucy Dawidowicz | 1932 | Holocaust historian |
| Manohla Dargis | 1979 | chief film critic, New York Times |
| Ruby Dee | 1939 | National Medal of Arts, Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, SAG and SAG Lifetime Achievement Award winning actress, African American rights activist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and journalist |
| Desmond Devlin | 1982 | writer, MAD Magazine |
| Ophelia Devore | c.1936 | first mixed-race model, founder-Grace Del Marco agency. |
| Diane di Prima | 1951 | poet |
| Mark Jason Dominus | 1986 | Perl programmer |
| Mildred S. Dresselhaus | 1947 | Institute Professor of physics and electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Medal of Science winner |
| Sandi Simcha DuBowski | 1988 | filmmaker |
| Dujeous | 1995 | (original members), hip-hop group |
| Helen Epstein | 1965 | first female tenured journalism professor, New York University, author |
| Jewlia Eisenberg | 1988 | composer and musician |
| Blake Eskin | 1988 | web editor of The New Yorker magazine and host of the magazine's Out Loud podcast |
| a female faust | 1983 | poet, augur, activist, vocalist |
| Mark Feinsand | 1992 | sportswriter, "New York Daily News" |
| Sandy Fong | 2008 | Olympic athlete (shooting) |
| Richard (DiMasi) Fontana | 1986 | free software and open source lawyer |
| Rose Fox | 1996 | journalist and editor, Publishers Weekly |
| Michael C. Frank | 1999 | developmental psychologist, Stanford University |
| Linda P. Fried | 1966 | Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University |
| Susan Fuhrman | 1961 | President, Teachers College, Columbia University; former Dean, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education |
| Joshua Geltzer | 2001 | Editor-in-Chief of Yale Law Journal |
| Daniel Greco | 2002 | Professor of Philosophy, Yale University |
| Eleanor Glueck | 1916 | criminologist, Harvard University |
| Henry Goldschmidt | 1987 | anthropologist and author |
| Jamal Greene | 1995 | professor, Columbia Law School |
| Jeffrey Greenfield | 1990 | professor of neurosurgery, Cornell Medical School |
| Brett Haber | 1987 | former ESPN SportsCenter anchor |
| Evelyn Handler | 1950 | President, University of New Hampshire and Brandeis University |
| Anne Harrington | 1977 | chair, history of science dept., Harvard University |
| Christopher Hayes | 1997 | host, "Up with Chris Hayes", MSNBC, editor-at-large, "The Nation" |
| Bernadine Healy | 1962 | former NIH director and Red Cross president |
| Carrie Kei Heim | 1991 | actress, lawyer |
| Taina Hernandez | 1992 | broadcaster |
| Jonathan Hoefler | 1988 | typeface designer |
| Steve Hofstetter | 1997 | comedian/radio personality |
| Adam Horowitz | 1990 | TV writer and producer, screenwriter |
| Florence Howe | 1946 | feminist activist |
| Immortal Technique | 1996 | rapper/political activist |
| Elena Kagan | 1977 | United States Supreme Court Justice, former United States Solicitor General and Dean of Harvard Law School |
| Eric Kaplan | 1985 | TV writer and producer |
| Max Kellerman | 1991 | host, HBO Boxing |
| Jonathan Kirschner | 1982 | professor and director, Reddy Institute, Cornell University, former chair, Economics and National Security Program, Harvard University |
| Karen Kornbluh | 1981 | U.S. Ambassador to OECD |
| Jean Kwok | 1986 | novelist |
| Evelyn Lauder | 1954 | philanthropist |
| Jennifer 8. Lee | 1994 | New York Times journalist and author |
| Judy Lewent | 1966 | director of Dell, GlaxoSmithKline, Motorola and MIT and former Exec. VP and CFO of Merck |
| Robert Lopez | 1993 | Avenue Q and Book of Mormon composer-lyricist |
| Audre Lorde | 1951 | poet, professor |
| Mynette Louie | 1993 | film producer |
| Nava Lubelski | 1986 | artist and author |
| Nnenna Lynch | 1989 | track and cross country runner |
| Shola Lynch | 1987 | director, producer, Peabody Award winner |
| Mike Maronna | 1995 | actor The Adventures of Pete & Pete |
| Donna Minkowitz | 1981 | writer and journalist |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda | 1998 | writer/actor In The Heights, interpreter for West Side Story |
| Thisbe Nissen | 1990 | novelist |
| Cynthia Nixon | 1984 | actress 'Sex & the City' |
| Mollie Orshansky | 1931 | statistician |
| Cynthia Ozick | 1946 | novelist |
| Ellen Ash Peters | 1947 | Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice |
| Pearl Primus | 1936 | choreographer/dancer |
| Jennifer Raab | 1973 | President, Hunter College |
| Mina Rees | ca. 1919 | King's Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom (UK) winner; President, Graduate School and University Center at CUNY; first female President of American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Vivian Reiss | 1970 | artist |
| Bruce Schneier | 1981 | security expert |
| Susan Sheehan | 1954 | journalist, Pulitzer Prize winning author |
| Susi Snyder | 1995 | political activist, International Secretary-General of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom |
| Amy Sohn | 1991 | novelist |
| Brent Stockwell | 1989 | professor of biology and chemistry, Columbia University |
| Katie Spencer | 2004 | singer / keyboardist for Jesse McCartney, Grammy nominated, actor, TV producer |
| Jeannie Suk | 1991 | professor, Harvard Law School |
| Deborah Tannen | 1962 | professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University, author, You Just Don't Understand |
| Judith Jarvis Thomson | 1946 | professor of philosophy, MIT |
| Michal Towber | 1998 | singer-songwriter, Emmy winning composer |
| Sarah Wilkins | 1992 | Art Historian |
| Mollena Williams | 1987 | author, actress, BDSM instructor |
| Alma S. Woolley | 1950 | Dean and professor emeritus of Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies, author, historian |
| Marvin "Young MC" Young | 1985 | rapper, music producer and songwriter |
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