- Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman is a Faculty Advisor at the Center on Law and Security and a law professor at Harvard Law School. He specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. - Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli (born Talib Kweli Greene in Brooklyn, New York City on October 3, 1975) is an American MC from Brooklyn, New York. He is one of the best-known rappers in alternative hip hop, and is frequently critically acclaimed, despite not having seen significant commercial success. His name in Arabic means "student", his last name in Swahili means "true". Talib and fellow rapper artist Mos Def purchased Nkiru, … - Gina Gershon
She's sitting in a funky little tea room in Beverly Hills, picking at her sandwich and politely fending off any question she's not sure how to handle. So she won't talk about her private life. She won't talk about Showgirls, the hilariously awful bit of trash that launched her fame. And she won't talk about the man she'll identify only as Sean, the boyfriend and housemate she clearly adores. "I've seen it too many times in Hollywood," the actress explains. - Richard Cohen
Richard Cohen, a syndicated columnist for the "Washington Post", is a graduate of Far Rockaway High School and attended Hunter College, NYU, and Columbia University. He is a four-time honorable-mention winner in Pulitzer Prize competitions, and is now a journalism professor at Columbia University. Cohen splits his time between Washington, D.C. and New York City. - Ned Block
Ned Block (born 1942) is a philosopher of mind who has made important contributions to matters of consciousness and cognitive science. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and was a student of Hilary Putnam. Block was for many years professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and now teaches at New York University (NYU). - John Canemaker
John Canemaker (b. 1943) is an Academy Award-winning independent animator, animation historian, author, teacher and lecturer. In 1980, he began teaching and developing the animation program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts', Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Department. Since 1988 he has directed the program and is currently a tenured full professor. From 2001-2002 he was Acting Chair of the NYU Undergraduate Film and Television Department. - Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan (b. 16 October 1962) is a playwright, screenwriter, and director born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. He began writing in high school, later graduating from the NYU Playwriting Program. His first success came with the play "This is Our Youth" (1996), and was followed by "The Waverley Gallery" (1999), based on his grandmother's Greenwich Village Gallery, and later "Lobby Hero" (2002). - Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator for Life", meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where necessary. - Michael John Lachiusa
Michael John LaChiusa (born 1962) is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist best known for his unusual sounding compositions for shows in the "post-modern" school. He has been nominated for 5 Tony Awards for his book (with Graciela Daniele and Jim Lewis) for "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", for his books for "Marie Christine" and (with George C. Wolfe) "The Wild Party", and his scores for "Marie Christine" and "The Wild Party". - Jennifer Miller
Jennifer Miller (born 1961) is an American circus entertainer, writer and a university professor. Miller is a professor for the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures. She is a bearded woman, juggler, and fire eater. Miller lives in New York City. Miller was born into a family of two Jewish-turned-Quaker professors; her mother died when she was in her early 20s. Miller got involved in the performing arts and theater while in high school, … - Lynne Meadow
Lynne Meadow is an American theatre producer and director and a college professor. A cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr, Meadow attended the Yale School of Drama. In 1972 she joined the Manhattan Theatre Club as Artistic Director, and in that position she has directed and produced more than one hundred New York City and world premieres of plays by American and international playwrights, including Terrence McNally, Beth Henley, John Guare, Athol Fugard, Brian Friel, … - Alex Mandossian
Alex Mandossian (born March 9, 1964) is an American motivational speaker, author and trainer (business). He owns one of the largest personal marketing libraries ever assembled, with over 1800 rare books and volumes dating back to the 1800s. Mandossian is considered one of the top ten freelance direct marketers in America today and has generated over $203 million in sales via direct response marketing such as TV infomercials on QVC and Home Shopping Network, … - Alex Winter
Alex Winter (born July 17, 1965) is an actor, director, and film writer, English-born but raised in the USA. Born in London, England, Alex Winter trained as a dancer as a child, that being the profession of his parents. His family then relocated to Missouri. He moved to New York in 1984 and began attending New York University (NYU). While at college, he starred in a number of plays and met a future friend and co-star Keanu Reeves. - Nicky Silver
Nicky Silver is an American playwright, formerly of Philadelphia, who currently resides in New York City. Mr. Silver began writing after graduating from the New York University (NYU) Theatre program. His plays "Pterodactyls" and "Raised in Captivity" earned back to back Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Play in 1994 and 1995 respectively. In 2002, Mr. - Tibor Kalman
Tibor Kalman was an influential American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well-known for his work as editor-in-chief of "Colors" magazine. Kalman was born in Budapest and became a U.S. resident in 1956, after he and his family fled Hungary to escape the Soviet invasion. He later attended NYU, dropping out after one year of Journalism classes. In the 1970s Kalman worked at a small New York City bookstore that eventually became Barnes & Noble. - Nicole Kassell
Nicole Kassell (born in 1972) is an American film director. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she received her degree from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. While a student there, she made three short films, including "The Green Hour", which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. A year earlier, she had won the Slamdance Screenplay Competition for her first feature-length project, "The Woodsman", … - Marvin Miller
Miller retired in 1982 and came back for a brief stint in 1983. Throughout the years, he has continued to be active in baseball affairs as an advisor to the Players Association. One issue that has managed to go unresolved through the tenures of Miller and two subsequent players union heads, as well as the reigns of the last five baseball commissioners, is the absence of a workable drug policy. - Elizabeth Hess
Elizabeth Hess (born 17 July 1953 in Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress best known for playing mother Janet Darling on the long-running American sitcom "Clarissa Explains It All". She has also appeared on an episode of "Law & Order". Currently, she is teaching acting at New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts and at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. - Charles Butler
Charles Butler, (1802-1897) was an American lawyer and philanthropist. He was born at Kinderhook Landing, Columbia Co., N.Y.; studied law in the office of Martin Van Buren at Albany, N. Y.; and was admitted to the bar in 1824. He became wealthy by accumulating land at the site of Chicago, Illinois and through his investments in railways. It was his accumulation of Illinois land and railway building that helped turn Chicago into a city. - David Korn
David Korn is an American computer programmer, who is probably best known for creating the Korn shell ("ksh"), a command line shell interface/programming language. The Korn shell is a de facto standard for UNIX-like systems and many other environments. David Korn received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1965 and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1969. - Melissa Sagemiller
Melissa Sagemiller (born June 1, 1974) is an American television and film actress. - Joshua Seth
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. - Mel Goldstein
Dr. Mel Goldstein (or Dr. Mel) is an American meteorologist, best known as the chief meteorologist for News Channel 8 in Connecticut. Dr. Goldstein was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts where, as Goldstein himself put it, "the conversation was always about the weather." He earned a degree in meteorology from Penn State in 1967, followed by a doctorate from NYU. In 1972 Dr. Mel took up a teaching job at Western Connecticut State University. - Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health (the department she chaired from 1988-2003) and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Medical Expert Blogger I'm a medical doctor, media health and wellness expert, life coach, speaker and... flamenco dancer! - Shuman Ghosemajumder
Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974) is a Canadian technologist, author, and businessman based in Silicon Valley. He is co-author of the book "CGI Programming Unleashed" (Macmillan Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-57521-151-3) and has also written numerous works on digital distribution, including the Open Music Model (2003). He is currently the business product manager for Trust & Safety at Google, which he joined in 2003. He was previously co-founder and CEO of Anadas, … - Martha Quinn
Martha Quinn (born May 11, 1959 in Albany, New York) is best known as one of the original video jockeys on MTV (along with Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson). Prior to joining MTV, Quinn graduated from Ossining High School in 1977 and NYU in 1981. She got the MTV job even though her prior on-camera experience had been limited to a few television commercials. "Rolling Stone" magazine readers selected her as "MTV's Best-Ever VJ" years later. - Howard Cann
Howard G. Cann (October 11, 1895 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States - December 18, 1992) was a college men's basketball player and coach. He is known for coaching at New York University from 1923 to 1958, compiling a 409-232 record. As a player, in 1920 he won the AAU National Championship with NYU and named Helms Athletic Foundation Player of the Year. As a coach, he led NYU to the NCAA Final in 1945, … - Fedor Bogomolov
Fedor Bogomolov is an American and Russian mathematician, known for his research in algebraic geometry and number theory. Bogomolov worked at Steklov Institute in Moscow before he became a professor at Courant Institute. He is most famous for his pioneering work on hyperkähler manifolds. Born 26.09.1946 in Moscow, Bogomolov graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, and earned his doctorate ("candidate degree") in 1973, … - Meg Bussert
Meg Bussert (born October 21 1949) is an American actress and singer and a university professor. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Professor Bussert received her BA degree from Purchase College and her MAT from Manhattanville College. She made her Broadway debut in the 1973 revival of "Irene". Her big break came in 1980 when she was cast in two revivals, "The Music Man" with Dick Van Dyke and "Brigadoon" with Martin Vidnovic, … - Linda Keen
Linda Jo Goldway Keen (born 9 August 1940 in New York City, New York) is a mathematician. After receiving her BS degree from the City College of New York, she studied at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and earned her PhD in 1964. She wrote her thesis on Riemann surfaces under the direction of Lipman Bers at NYU. In addition to studying Riemann surfaces, Keen has worked in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and Fuchsian groups, complex analysis, … - Fariba Nawa
Fariba Nawa (born 1973) is an Afghanistani-American freelance journalist who grew up in Fremont, California and was born in Herat, Afghanistan. Her family fled the country during the Soviet incursion in the 1980s. She is trilingual in Persian, Arabic, and English. In 2000 she ventured into Taliban controlled Afghanistan by sneaking into the country through Iran. <br />Her report Afghanistan Inc. - Gordon Edelstein
Gordon Edelstein is the Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut - a position he has held since July 1, 2002. Prior to that he was Artistic Director at ACT Theatre in Seattle for 5 years.. Also, he has taught acting and directing at NYU, University of Iowa, and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and directed two Emmy-nominated television movies. - Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is currently the media columnist for The Nation and MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has also been a contributing editor to Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and IntellectualCapital.com. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award; Who Speaks for America? - Noam Elkies
Noam D. Elkies (born 1966 in New York City) is a mathematician. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow. He won the 1982 competition at the age of sixteen years and four months, making him possibly the youngest Putnam Fellow in history. After graduating as valedictorian, he earned his Ph.D. under supervision of Benedict Gross and Barry Mazur at Harvard University. - Mel Shapiro
Mel Shapiro is an award-winning American theatre director and writer, college professor, and author. For Broadway, Shapiro wrote the book and directed the 1971 musical adaptation of "Two Gentlemen of Verona", and directed the 1978 revival of "Stop the World - I Want to Get Off" with Sammy Davis, Jr. and John Guare's 1979 play "Bosoms and Neglect". He directed the original off-Broadway production of "The House of Blue Leaves", … - John Avlon
John P. Avlon (b. 1973) is the author of "Independent Nation: How the Vital Center is Changing American Politics". He is a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun and worked as chief speechwriter for former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Avlon was the youngest and longest-serving speechwriter in the Giuliani Administration as well as Deputy Communications Director. - Eva Aridjis
Eva S. Aridjis, born 1974 in Holland, Netherlands while her father was serving there as Mexico's ambassador, is a Mexican filmmaker. She later attended the American School Foundation in Mexico City and spent a lot of time immersed in books and make-believe worlds. - Rudolph Delson
Rudolph Delson (born March 26, 1975) is an American author best known for his debut 2007 novel, "Maynard and Jennica", published by Houghton Mifflin. "Maynard and Jennica" is a modern love story set in New York City. Rudolph Delson was born and raised in San Jose, CA. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Stanford University (BA & BS, 1997)and NYU Law School (JD, 2002). - Joseph French Johnson
Joseph French Johnson (August 24 1853- 1925) was an American economist, born at Hardwick, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1878, studied in Germany for a year, then began work at the Springfield, Massachusetts "Republican" newspaper. Afterward, he worked on the staff of the Chicago "Tribune", and established the Spokane "Spokesman" (1889). After 1893, his employment took him to various institutions. - Drew Casper
Joseph Andrew "Drew" Casper is an award-winning Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Dr. Casper attended Fordham University where he earned his Bachelors degree in English Literature and Philosophy. Upon completion of these programs, he immediately enrolled into Fordham University's master's program in American Literature and Theology which he did complete.
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