Noah Falstein is a freelance game designer and producer who has been in the video game industry since 1980. He was one of the first 10 employees at Lucasfilm Games (which became LucasArts Entertainment), DreamWorks Interactive (which became EALA), and The 3DO Company (which became defunct). Currently he runs The Inspiracy and writes the "Better by Design" column for "Game Developer" magazine.

Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is a librarian and a former member of the American Library Association Council. Her father is Tom West. She is a self-described "anti-capitalist" who as of 2006 operates the blog librarian.net. She also operates the websites jessamyn.com and jessamyn.info and is a moderator on MetaFilter.

Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an Academy Award-nominated American singer-songwriter and musician. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and use of multi-tracking to create vocal harmonies. Although Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and died in Los Angeles, California, …

Xander R. Berkeley (born December 16, 1958) is an American actor.

James S. Crown is a businessman. He is president of Henry Crown and Company, a private investment company. He is a director of JPMorgan Chase & Co., General Dynamics and Sara Lee as well as being the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the University of Chicago. A member of Chicago's Crown family, James' father is billionaire Lester Crown. He earned his BA from Hampshire College in 1976 and his law degree from Stanford in 1980. His family owns the Aspen Skiing Company.

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954), is an American writer and mountaineer, well-known for outdoor and mountain-climbing writing

Kenneth Lauren Burns (b. July 29, 1953) is an American director and producer of documentary films known for his style of making use of original prints and photographs. Among his most notable productions are the 1990 film, "The Civil War", the 1994 film, "Baseball", and the 2001 film, "JAZZ".

Daniel Aaron Horowitz (born December 14, 1954) is a high-profile defense attorney and TV legal analyst with an extensive computer and business background. He was one of the first attorneys to bring a computer into the courtroom. Horowitz is a licensed real-estate broker and has been counsel for a major investment firm in New York City.

Neil Gust is an American musician. He is best known for co-founding Heatmiser (for which he played guitar and provided vocals) with the late Elliott Smith in 1992. He and Smith first met in 1987 while the pair were attending Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Gust was also founding member of the now defunct No. 2. He currently works as an Editor for Outside, NY

Daniel Asia (b. Seattle, Washington, United States, 1953) is an American composer. He received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College and a M.M. from the Yale University School of Music. His major teachers include Jacob Druckman, Stephen Albert, Gunther Schuller, and Isang Yun. He formerly served as professor of music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1981-1986). Since 1988, he has been a professor of composition, and head of the composition department, …

Jeff Maguire (born in 1952) is an American screenwriter. Regarded for his talent for writing sports films, Jeff Maguire got his first screenwriting break with his script Escape to Victory, a film about soccer directed by John Huston in 1981. His most recent contribution is Gridiron Gang, released in 2006. Maguire's most famous film is In the Line of Fire starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, …

American film maker Barry Sonnenfeld (born New York City, April 1 1953) worked as cinematographer for the Coen Brothers, then later he directed and produced big budget films such as "Men in Black". On the 20 April 2007 episode of "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," Barry Sonnenfeld said that, when he directs, he sits on a saddle. He also admits to vomiting at least once during shooting of his films.

Lee Smolin (born 1955 in New York City) is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo. Smolin is best known for devising several different approaches to quantum gravity, in particular loop quantum gravity. He advocates that the two primary approaches to quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity and string theory, …

Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967) is a Tony Award-winning American actor. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s, having initially appeared in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the "Scream" series.

Eugene Boris Mirman is a Russian-born American comedian, writer, and film maker, who is based in New York City. Mirman attended Lexington High School in Lexington, MA, and later Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts. Mirman has appeared on several TV shows, including Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Jump Cuts, VH1, Third Watch, Cartoon Network's Home Movies, Cheap Seats, HBO's Flight of the Conchords and more.

Mike Ladd is a hip-hop MC and producer. As an MC, he practices spoken-word and is known for his poetic lyrics. As a producer, he is known as the owner of the Likemadd label.

Christopher Young (born April 28 1957) is an award-winning music composer for film and television. Many of his works were for horror movies, including "Hellraiser", "Tales from the Hood", "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge" and "Urban Legend". Other works include "Spider-Man 3", and "Lucky You".

Chuck Collins (b. 1959) is an author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He was the cofounder of the organizations United for a Fair Economy and Responsible Wealth in Boston, Massachusetts.

Benjamin Mako Hill is a Debian hacker and author of the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible and "The Official Ubuntu Book". He works in the Computing Culture group of the MIT Media Lab, and is on the boards of Software Freedom International (the organization that organizes Software Freedom Day) and the Ubuntu Foundation. Hill was on the board of Software in the Public Interest from March 2003 until July 2006, serving as the organisation's vice-president from August 2004. Read more...

Aaron Lansky (b. 1955) is the founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications. When he began saving books in the early 1980s, most experts believe that there were fewer than 70,000 Yiddish volumes extant. Lansky feared that this literature would be lost. The National Yiddish Book Center now has more than 15 million books. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 for his work.

David Raphael Moscow (born 14 November 1974) is an American actor. His first major role may have been as the young Josh in the 1988 film "Big", in which his character was magically transformed into an adult, played by Tom Hanks. Moscow was born in New York City. He attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts in the 1990s. His younger brother, Lev, is a history teacher at The Beacon School in New York City. Lev was an extra in "Newsies".

Edward Humes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and published non-fiction writer.

Jeph Jacques writes and illustrates the webcomics "Questionable Content" and "IndieTits". He was born in Rockville, Maryland, graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music, and lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts with his girlfriend (and business manager) Cristi. Jacques is a self-described hipster. "Questionable Content" (QC) is a comedic slice-of-life webcomic that Jacques started on August 1, 2003.

Joshua Seth Freedman (born December 17, 1970) was born in Kent, Ohio and attended NYU film school. He has voiced several anime characters and is sometimes credited as "Jeremiah Freedman". In 2005, he became the announcer of "Kids WB's Aftertoons Show" block and "Saturdays: Unleashed" block. He also works as a comedy hypnotist and magician.

Daniel Paul Tamberelli (born February 8, 1982 in Wyckoff, New Jersey) is an American television and film actor. Tamberelli played little Pete on the Nickelodeon television show "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" and provided the voice for Arnold in "The Magic School Bus", as well as appearing in the films "Igby Goes Down" and "The Mighty Ducks". Many may also know him for his work on Nickelodeon's "All That", …

lê thi diem thúy is an award-winning poet, novelist, and performer. She was born in South Vietnam in 1972, during the heart of war. In 1978, she moved to Southern California with her father among the many immigrants called "boat people." Two of Lê's older siblings drowned (separately) early in her life. Le went to Montgomery High, and then San Diego High.

Sonya Sones is an American writer of young adult novels. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona and currently lives near the beach in Southern California. After graduating from Hampshire College she taught film at Harvard University; her other jobs have included baby clothes designer, animator, photographer, and film editor. Her style differs from most contemporary writers in that her novels are told in verse form rather than prose.

Jeff Sharlet (b. 1972) is an American journalist and author best known for writing about religious subcultures in the United States. He is a contributing editor for "Harper's" and "Rolling Stone", a former senior writer for "The Chronicle of Higher Education", and the former editor in chief of Pakn Treger, a magazine of Jewish culture published by the National Yiddish Book Center. His work has also appeared in "The Washington Post", …

Naomi Wallace is a poet and playwright from Prospect, Kentucky. Her plays include: "In The Heart of America, One Flea Spare, Slaughter City, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, The Girl Who Fell Through a Hole in Her Jumper" (with Bruce McLeod), "The War Boys," "Things of Dry Hours" and the one act play "The Retreating World". Her stage adaptation of William Wharton's novel "Birdy" opened on the West End in London.

Gideon Bok is an American painter who lives and works in Maine. He earned his B.F.A. from Hampshire College and his M.F.A. from Yale University. He has gone on to teach painting and drawing at Hampshire, but is presently on leave from his position. He is a recipient of a 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship as well as the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Fund Purchase Award through The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005.

Erica Wheeler (born October 24 in Maryland) is an American folk singer-songwriter. She currently lives in western Massachusetts. Growing up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., she was exposed to traditional folk and bluegrass music in surrounding Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland, which influenced her later style. She attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Gary Hirshberg is Chairman, President and CEO of Stonyfield Farm, an organic yogurt producer, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire. He has been with the company since 1983. He has been mentioned as a possible 2008 Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate against New Hampshire's junior U.S. Senator John E. Sununu.

Jeffrey Hollender is President and Chief Inspired Protagonist of Seventh Generation, the largest distributor of non-toxic, all-natural cleaning, paper and personal care products. Jeffrey Hollender was born in 1954 in New York City to Albert and Lucile Hollender. He attended Riverdale middle school, Putney high school, and Hampshire College. He lives in Vermont with his wife, Sheila, and their three children (Meika, Alex, and Kiki).

Sarah Goldfinger is a co-producer, story editor (2004-2005) and television writer for "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". She also served script executive for "The Constant Gardener". She graduated from Hampshire College with a BA in creative writing and literature.

Tooker Gomberg (August 12, 1955 - March 3 or March 4, 2004) was a Canadian politician and environmental activist. A native of Montreal, Quebec and a liberal-arts graduate of Hampshire College (1980), Gomberg founded one of Canada's first curbside recycling programs in Montreal, and later moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where he created educational materials for Alberta's energy ministry and headed the EcoCity Society, an environmental agency.

Joshua Beckman is an American poet. He won the first annual Honickman / APR book award and has published five books of poems. A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, Beckman was the editor of the short-lived literary magazine "Object Lesson," which served as inspiration for subsequent literary and artistic publishing ventures.

John Reed (b. 1969) is an American author and novelist. Reed attended Tulane University and Hampshire College. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in the mid 90s, with authors Amanda Filipacchi, Jonathan Ames, Matthew Sharpe, Claudia Rankine, Monica de la Torre and writer/director, James Gunn. Reed was an early contributor to, and subsequently an editor with, "Open City (magazine)", a New York literary journal published by Robert Bingham, …

Rolfe Kanefsky is an American film writer/director. Kanefsky grew up in the suburbs of New York and attended Hampshire College where he studied Film. He began writing stories at a young age after his childhood dream of becoming a clown took the backseat to his interest in film. By the time he was twenty-one, Rolfe had written and directed the original cult classic horror spoof "There's Nothing Out There".

Suzanne M. Daley is an American journalist who has been the national editor for "The New York Times" since 2005. Daley joined the "Times" in 1978 after graduating from Hampshire College. Daley's previous posts include: * reporter, metropolitan desk (1982-94) * deputy metropolitan editor (1994-95) * South Africa bureau chief, based in Johannesburg (1995-99) * Paris bureau chief (1999-2002) * education editor (2002-2005)

Heather Boushey is a senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Her work focuses on the U.S. labor market, social policy, and work and family issues. Dr. Boushey’s work ranges from examinations of current trends in the U.S. labor market and how families balance work and child care needs to how young people have fared in today’s economy and health insurance coverage.