Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan

female, 64 years old
poet, American, College Of Marin, University of California, Los Angeles, Master's Degree, Grove Press
Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator born in San Jose, California in 1945. She grew up in California's San Joaquin Valley. She received both...
Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts

male
Google, SEO, Google employee, spam killer, blogger, SMX Advanced Seattle 2007 attendee
Matt Cutt's wants you to use 'no follow' so that Google can provide better search results. He also has a vested interest in increasing Google's...
Ellen Spertus

Ellen Spertus

female
Mills College, computer scientist, Google employee, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Master's Degree
Ellen Spertus is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mills College and a part-time software engineer at Google. In 2001 she was named The...
Ronald Takaki

Ronald Takaki

male (Berkeley, California, United States)
Clear, professor, university of california berkeley, helpful, University of California, Berkeley, ethnic studies
Ronald Takaki (born 1939) in Oahu, Hawai'i is an ethnic studies historian. His work helps dispel stereotypes of Asian Americans such as the model...
Oscar Hijuelos

Oscar Hijuelos

male, 58 years old
Our House in the Last World, New York writer, Musical theatre, Broadway theatre, Broadway, American Academy in Rome
Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Hijuelos was born in...
Myron Magnet

Myron Magnet

male
Columbia University, City Journal, Commentary Magazine, Manhattan Institute, The Wall Street Journal, Doctor of Philosophy
Myron Magnet (b. 1944) is the editor of "City Journal", the Manhattan Institute's quarterly journal of urban affairs, which focuses on endemic...
Alan Dundes

Alan Dundes

male, deceased (2005)
death by myocardial infarction, American, folklore, Yale University alumni, Anthropologist, folklorist
Alan Dundes, (September 8 1935 - March 30, 2005) was a folklorist at the University of California, Berkeley. His work was said to have been central...
Will Steger

Will Steger

male, 66 years old
North to the Pole, Futurologist, Explorer of the Arctic, Explorer-in-Residence, Explorers Club, environmental organizations
Will Steger (born 1943 at Richfield, Minnesota) is a prominent spokesperson for the understanding and preservation of the Arctic and has led some...
Malvina Reynolds

Malvina Reynolds

female, deceased (1978)
musician, from the San Francisco Bay Area, California musician, Jewish person, American, Activism
Malvina Reynolds (born as Malvina Milder on August 23,1900, died March 17, 1978) was an American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political...
Lincoln Kirstein

Lincoln Kirstein

male, deceased (1996)
Edward M. M. Warburg, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, From Boston, Art collector, connoisseur, From Rochester, New York
Lincoln Edward Kirstein (May 4, 1907 - January 5, 1996) was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, and cultural figure in New York City,...