In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the College of Arts & Sciences, we look back at 150+ notable alumni who have graduated from our school. Please note that this timeline is a work in progress.
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Helen Magill White was the first American woman to earn a PhD. After graduating from Boston University, she helped organize the Howard Collegiate Institute in 1883. After her marriage to Andrew White, co-founder and the first preseident of Cornell University, she went on to travel with him to St.Petersburg and Berlin. Magill's dissertation, The Greek Drama, was long considered lost, but in 2018 it was found in her papers in the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections at the Cornell University Library. Alicia Stone Blackwell was the daughter of Lucy Stone who was an avid suffragette. She was the president of her class and after graduating from BU with honors she joined the editorial staff of the Woman's Journal. She was crucial in effecting a reconciliation between two groups of the feminist movement. She also worked to support other causes, especially those of Armenian peoples. Louisa Holman Fisk went on to work with the WYMCA after graduating from BU. She also helped fund the Fisk House on BU Campus, which continues today, and is used by women in the graduate school who need assistance with housing costs. It was also through Fisk that another BU alum, Lucy Jenkins Franklin, would be appointed BU's first Dean of Women in 1924. John Wesley Edward Bowen was born into slavery in 1855. He would later become a prominent Methodist clergyman, denominational official, college and university educator. He is noted as one of the first African Americans to earn a PhD degree in the United States, and specifically the first African American to earn a PhD from Boston University, in 1887. Emma Schofield upon graduating from BU, went on to have an illustrious career in law, serving as the Vice President of the National Association of Woman Lawyers, the first female Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, and the Associate Justice of the First District Court. She was an activist for women's rights and an active member in the League of Women Voters. Gleason Archer founded Suffolk University Law School (originally known as Archer's Law School). Archer's goal was to build an evening law school (and eventually a university) which would provide an education regardless of economic class, race or religion. Archer served as President of Suffolk University and Suffolk Law School until 1948, also founding the Suffolk College of Arts and Sciences in 1934, and the Sawyer School of Management in 1937. He was the author of over 30 books about diverse topics ranging from law to history to religion. Priscilla Fairfield Bok was an American Astronomer, who together with her husband would co-author a number of academic papers on star clusters, stellar magnitudes, and the structure of the Milky Way galaxy. Her and her husband's book The Milky Way has been noted as "one of the most successful astronomical texts ever written." Waitstill Hastings Sharp (CAS 1924) was a Unitarian minister who was involved in humanitarian and relief work in Czechoslovakia and Southern Europe during World War II. In 2005, Sharp and his first wife, Martha, were named by Yad Vashem as Righteous among the Nations, the second and third of five Americans to receive this honor. Harry Broudy (CAS 1929) was born in what is now Poland, and emigrated to Massachusetts with his family in 1912. He worked for a short time at the Massachusetts Department of Education, and then taught philosophy of education and educational psychology at North Adams State Teachers College. He was a professor of the philosophy of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign from 1957 to 1974, after which he was appointed professor emeritus. Robert Briggs was a scientist who, in 1952, together with Thomas Joseph King, cloned a frog by nuclear transfer of embryonic cells. The same technique, using somatic cells, was later used to create Dolly the Sheep. Their experiment was the first successful nuclear transplantation performed in metazoans. Peter Anthony Bertocci was an American philosopher and Borden Parker Bowne professor emeritus of philosophy at Boston University. He was also a president of the Metaphysical Society of America. Bertocci, who served in the philosophy department for 31 years, was an advocate of theistic finitism. Martin Berezin received his undergraduate and medical degrees from BU. After graduating from BU, Berezin went on to serve in the US Army Medical Corp in WWII from 1940 to 1946. Afterwards, he was noted for being a pioneer in the field of Geriatric Psychiatry. In 1960, he was crucial in the formation of the Boston Society for Gerontologic Psychiatry, which was the first of its kind in America. He was also a president of the New England Psychiatric Association. Robert A. Bruce was a cardiologist and professor at the University of Washington. He developed the Bruce Protocol, a diagnostic test used in the evaluation of cardiac function that involves a treadmill and is commonly used by athletes. In 1950 he was named the first Chief of Cardiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He was director of the Division of Cardiology until 1971. Warren Alpert served in military intelligence in World War II, where he was wounded on Omaha Beach during D-Day, and received a Purple Heart for his service. He worked seven days a week in addition to his studies while at BU, prior to his time in the military. After his service, he was able to start his own chain of gas stations and convenience stores called Xtra Marts. In 1974, Alpert donated funds to BU to create Warren Alpert Mall, or as it is better known, "BU Beach." Fran Perlmutter grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. After she graduated in 1944, Perlmutter was recruited as a “cryptanalytic aide” in the Army’s codebreaking division, the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS). She and a cadre of codebreakers lived and worked in secret on a 100-acre campus in Arlington, Virginia. They deciphered tens of thousands of messages a month, and their expertise was instrumental in ending the war. She later worked as a travel agent. Virginia Burns worked to establish programs supporting young people in the juvenile justice system and convened the first "National Conference on Girls in Crisis." She served as a special assistant in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and was a special assistant in the Kennedy Administration, working with Robert F. Kennedy in the Department of Justice. A strong civil rights advocate, she participated in the 1963 March on Washington and was an early supporter of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. After returning to Massachusetts in the 1980's, she became director of the Division of Drug Rehabilitation for the Mass. Department of Mental Health, and later served as Director of Advocacy for the Mass. Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and was Child Advocate for Boston Children's Services. Eugene Callender was an American pastor and activist in the Civil Rights Movement. He was the first black ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church in North America. He also served as deputy administrator of the NYC Housing and Development Administration. F. Bradford Morse served in World War II in the Army from 1942-1946 and was discharged as a second lieutenant. After the war, he served as a private practice lawyer, business executive, law clerk to Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and professor at Boston University School of Law, 1949-1953. Hideo Itabashi was the son of immigrants from Tokyo. His high school years were interrupted by his family’s internment during World War II. Despite this disruption, he briefly attended Boston University before being drafted at age 19 into the army, where his job as a translator was to interrogate Japanese officers who were US prisoners of war. In 1958, at the start of a long and distinguished career in medicine, Itabashi went to work at the University of California, spending the next 20 years in increasingly senior posts. He became a professor of pathology and neurology at what is today the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Nathan Azrin (CAS'51, GRS'52) was a behavioral modification researcher, psychologist, and university professor. He taught at Southern Illinois University and was the research director of Anna State Hospital between 1958 and 1980. In 1980 he became a professor at Nova Southeastern University, and entered emeritus status at the university in 2010. Azrin was the founder of several research methodologies, including Token Economics, the Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) on which the CRAFT model was based, Family Behavior Therapy, and habit reversal training. Robert Vance Bruce was an American historian specializing in the American Civil War. He won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book, The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876. He joined the BU faculty in 1955, rising to the rank of professor in 1966. A World War II army veteran, he is know for his works on Abraham Lincoln and Alexander Graham Bell. Constance A. Morella is an American politician and diplomat. She represented Maryland's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003. She served as Permanent Representative from the U.S. to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 2003 to 2007. She serves on American University's faculty as an Ambassador in Residence for the Women & Politics Institute. She was appointed to the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) by President Barack Obama in 2010. William Frances Buckley was an United States Army officer in the Green Berets, and a CIA Station chief in Beirut, Lebanon from 1984 to 1985. Buckley was captured by a Lebanese Shia Islamist militant group and tortured for 15 months. Buckley was awarded two Purple Hearts, Distinguished Intelligence Cross, the Silver Star, as well as many others for his service. Chester C. Langway Jr. was a scientist who specialized in polar caps and climate change, and was part of the U.S Army Corp of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. He worked with the US Army to analyze the ice taken from the building of "Camp Century" a Cold War era bunker in Greenland. Joshua Smith was the fourth president of Bourough of Manhattan Community College and oversaw the construction of the BMCC campus in downtown Manhattan. Cited by Diverse Issues in Higher Education as one of the most influential figures in higher education in the 20th century, he is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the School of Education, New York University. Upon leaving BMCC, Smith served as Chancellor of the Community Colleges of California, overseeing 107 colleges and 1.2 million students. Dr. Smith also served in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot in the Strategic Air Command. Martin Luther King Jr.arrived in Boston in 1951 to study at BU after studying at Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Pennsylvania. He took a special interest in philosophy and ethics in his studies at BU, eventually earning a PhD in systematic theology, which gave him the right to be called Dr. King for the remainder of his life. Approximately six months after graduating from BU, King led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, where he first began to attract national recognition. He returned to Boston in 1964—the same year he received the Nobel Peace Prize—to donate his personal papers to BU; the collection is among the most prominent held by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Phyllis Brauner is a professor of chemistry at Simmons College and was extremely active in the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society. In 1974, she was the first woman to preside in the chairmanship of the section. She was also a Member of the Board of Directors, a member and/or chairman of numerous committees, a Councilor of the section, a Trustee, and an Editor of The Nucleus. Bassam Z. Shakhashiri is best known for his leadership in national science policy, promoting excellence in science education at all levels, and for his development and use of demonstrations in the teaching of chemistry. His scholarly publications, including the multi-volume series, Chemical Demonstrations: A Handbook for Teachers of Chemistry, which are models of learning and instruction. In 2012, he served as president of the American Chemical Society, the largest scientific society in the world with more than 164,000 members. Nelson Butters was a clinical neuropsychologist who served as president of International Neuropsychology Society. He has also performed research in many areas, including cognitive deficits underlying human amnesia, amnesia with alcoholic Wernicke-Korsakoff's syndrome, Huntington's Disease, and amnestic functioning between pure amnesia and more pervasive dementia. Ralph Wright is a retired teacher and politician who served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives. He moved to Bennington, Vermont, in 1968 and worked as a teacher and director of an alternative education program for troubled teens. Wright served in local offices in Bennington during the 1960s and 1970s, including Selectman. In 1978, he was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives, where he served from 1979 to 1995. From 1983 to 1985, Wright was the House Minority Leader. John Robinson a former Boston University trustee and board secretary, is president of the Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation and Skerryvore Foundation, Inc., both of which are philanthropic organizations that provide funding for programs related to environmental protection, higher education, human services, religion, and the arts. Prior to his retirement, Robinson was counsel for Connecticut Bank & Trust; senior executive vice president and director of Sperry & Hutchinson Company; and an assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York. A specialist in environmental law, he is certified to practice law before the U.S. District Court of New York (Southern District), the U.S. Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Caroline Chang was the first manager of Chinatown's Little City Hall in Boston. From 1974 to 1979 she was an equal opportunity specialist in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' regional civil rights office in Boston. Since 1982, she has served as regional manager of the Boston Civil Rights Office. Chang is cofounder and president of the Asian Community Development Corporation and sits on the boards of the Chinese Historical Society of New England, the Executive Service Corps of New England, Inc., the American Repertory Theatre, and the Roxbury Community College Foundation. Julia Markus is both a novelist and biographer. Her novel Uncle is a Houghton Mifflin Literary Award winner. She is a Professor of English and the Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing at Hofstra University, Long Island, New York. Her latest biography, Lady Byron and her Daughters, presents the previously maligned Lady Byron in an astonishing new light. Julia Markus lives and writes in New York City. David C. Mulford served as the United States Ambassador to India from January 23, 2004 to February 2009, and as Vice-Chairman International of Credit Suisse from 2009 to 2016. He is currently a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, focusing on research, writing, and activities related to global economic integration, including the legal and political environments of trade agreements and their management. Mulford has concentrated his efforts on economic growth in the Indian subcontinent and the trend of receding globalization in developed economies. Paula Mae Schwartz is the CEO of Chockstone Pictures and the produced the films All the Old Knives, Homeless: The Soundtrack, Serena, The Counselor, The Host, and many others. She was also a producer on the 2015 Tony-Award nominated Deaf West revival of Spring Awakening. Thomas Buford was the founder of the journal that evolved into The Pluralist, which is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the ends of philosophical thought and dialogue in all widely used philosophical methodologies, including non-Western methods and those of traditional cultures. He is also credited with founding the International Conference on Persons. Susan T. Spencer was the first woman to become a general manager for an NFL Team, specifically the Philadelphia Eagles. Fletcher is also the author of Briefcase Essentials: Discover Your 12 Natural Talents for Achieving Success in a Male-Dominated Workplace. George Brewster III served as the President of the BU Alumnae Association and was a recipient of their CAS Distinguished Alumni Award in 1997. He spent 43 years in public finance and municipal bonds working for the Bank of Boston, State Street, and Bear Stearns. Brewster was a board member of the Public Securities Association, and a business and personal mentor to many. He was active member of the Alumni Association for 27 years. Warren Adelson founded Adelson Galleries in a walk-down storefront at 167 Newbury Street in 1964. For more than three decades Adelson worked with Richard Ormond, a distinguished art historian, as well as John Singer Sargent’s great-nephew, on Sargent’s catalogue raisonné—a comprehensive tome detailing all of the artist’s known works. Theodore Alexio Jr. is the former Mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts. He also served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for 20 years and was elected to one term in the Massachusetts Senate in 1988. Professor Ralph D’Agostino is an American biostatistician. He recently retired from his position as professor of mathematics/statistics, biostatistics, and epidemiology at Boston University. He also served as director of the Statistics and Consulting Unit of the Framingham Study and executive director of the M.A./PhD program in biostatistics at Boston University. He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1990 and of the American Heart Association in 1991. Nolan Atkinson had a lengthy career as an attorney before he joined city government in 2016. He first began practicing law in the 1960s and litigated commercial matters, representing banks, insurance companies and other businesses in major disputes. He formerly served as the chief diversity officer at Duane Morris LLP and was a partner at Atkinson & Archie PC and Zack, Myers & Atkinson. He is a founder of the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group, a consortium of law firms and corporations committed to increasing diversity in Philadelphia’s legal profession. Atkinson served as a co-chairman of the Conference of Minority Partners in Majority Corporate Law Firms, a constituent entity of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession. Sally G. Narodick is a retired educational technology and e-learning consultant. From 2000 to 2004, she was President of Narodick Consulting, an e-learning consulting firm. Previously, she served as chief executive officer of Apex Online Learning, an Internet educational software company from 1998 to 2000, an education technology consultant, both independently and for IBM’s consumer division from 1996 to 1998, and served as chairman and chief executive officer of Edmark Corporation from 1989 to 1996. Julianne Glowacki is the Director of the Skeletal Biology Program in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Alicia Haydock Munnell spent 20 years as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she researched wealth, savings, and retirement among American workers. She served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Clinton administration and as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Since 1997, she has been a professor at Boston College and director of its Center for Retirement Research, where she writes on retirement income policy. Stephen Kurkjian is an American journalist and author. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting in 1972 and 1980. Additionally, he contributed to The Boston Globe Spotlight Team's coverage of the clergy abuse scandal within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003. He also received the George Polk Award in 1982 and 1994. He also won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in 1995. Olive A. Lesueur was a cartographer and geographer in the earth sciences lab at the U.S. Army Natick Research Labs in Natick, Massachusetts. Lesueur joined the U.S. Department of Transportation in Cambridge—where she still works as senior program manager for workplace safety and health. She earned a master’s degree in urban affairs and public policy from BU and co-founded the Kendall Square Learning Project, an English as a Second Language Program for adults that offers free classes to a broad population of immigrants. Gerald Gitner is a principal of Cross Continental Capital LLC, an investment company he co-founded. He serves as chairman of Global Aero Holdings Ltd. and D.G. Associates, Inc. He is a past member and chairman of the Financial Advisory Board of the Town of Highland Beach, Florida. Gabor Borrit moved to the U.S. from Hungary in 1956 after his family was imprisoned and killed. While in the U.S., he learned English through reading books on Abraham Lincoln and was hooked. Borrit was the Robert Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. He received the National Humanities Medal in 2008. Julian T. Houston was appointed a Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts in 1990. Judge Houston has been the architect of a number of innovative programs since his appointment to the bench: Roxbury Youthworks, Inc., a community based program providing services to young people, and the Roxbury District Court Child-Care Center, the first court-based child-care center in New England. In 1997, as a result of his leadership, a portrait of the Honorable Edward O. Gourdin, the first African American to serve on the Superior Court, was commissioned and unveiled. It is the only portrait of an African American Superior Court Justice hanging in a Massachusetts courtroom. Nancy Newcomb served as Citigroup’s Senior Corporate Officer of Risk Management for six years. In the area of Finance and International Operations, Newcomb served as Citigroup’s Principal Financial Officer, and was responsible for liquidity, funding and capital management. She has had extensive international experience as head of worldwide treasury operations in over 100 countries, and co-head of Citigroup’s global, multinational customer business. Gerald Paul Koocher is an American psychologist and past president of the American Psychological Association. His research interests include ethics, clinical child psychology and the study of scientific misconduct. He is Dean Emeritus Simmons College and also holds an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School. Donald F. Law Jr. was President of Live Nation – New England. Live Nation is the world’s leading producer and presenter of live entertainment. He served as CEO and Chairman of Clear Channel Music from 2002 to 2005, which is now known as Live Nation. Law is the founder of the Xfinity Center (formerly known as the Great Woods Center) in Mansfield, Massachusetts. The Xfinity Center is one of the premier performance amphitheaters in the United States. George Clay was an executive in the pharmaceutical industry, where he worked in drug discovery, clinical drug development, drug registration, and corporate management for more than 30 years. Prior to working in industry, Dr. Clay worked as a fellow in the Heart and Lung Institute at the National Institutes of Health, and then was an assistant professor of pharmacology at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. In industry, he worked in neurosciences and central nervous system disorders, heading a group for new drug discovery in mental and neurological disorders before moving into corporate management. He has worked in clinical evaluation of new drugs, and with corporate legal departments, interfacing with US and international drug agencies. He has managed numerous NDAs approvals by the US FDA and international regulatory bodies. During his career he worked for G. D. Searle, Monsanto, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, and Kyowa Hakko Pharmaceuticals, where he was chief operating officer for the American affiliate. He has served on scientific advisory boards, advising new companies with their drug discovery and new product development programs, and assisting with regulatory agency interactions. Dr. Clay graduated from Dartmouth College in 1961; and from Boston University (GRS) in 1964 and 1968. He was a postdoctoral fellow at NIH from 1967 to 1970. William H. Frishman is a practicing internist and cardiologist and is the Emeritus Chair of the Department of Medicine New York Medical College. He has written more than 14 textbooks and 1,000 academic articles. He has received national recognition for excellence in teaching, including the Teaching Scholar Award of the American Heart Association, the Preventive Cardiology Academic Award from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, and the Distinguished Teacher Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. Ronald C. Desrosiers is the Director of Research Faculty Development and Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. His research is important to the understanding of viral pathogenesis and to vaccine development efforts. John Robert Sasso first started his political journey at Boston University. Since then, he has continued his long and successful career in politics. Sasso has been a senior vice president with Hill, Holliday, Connors & Cosmopulos Inc., a top advertising agency in Boston. He also worked as the vice chairman of the Dukakis campaign. Tipper Gore is a social issues advocate, activist, photographer, and author who was the second lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In 1985, she co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center, which advocated for labeling if record covers of releases with profane language. Throughout her decades of public life, she has advocated for mental health awareness, women's causes, children's causes, LGBTQ+ rights, and reducing homelessness. Ellen Bass is a recognized poet who received her MA in creative writing at BU, where she studied with Anne Sexton. She is the author of nine poetry collections, the most recent titled Indigo. Bass has also written several works of nonfiction and is the co-founder of a non-profit, Survivors Healing Center in Santa Cruz, California, which offers services to survivors of child sexual abuse. Bass wrote the best-selling book, The Courage to Heal. David T. Lindgren served on the faculty in the geography department at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, for over 35 years where he is now an emeritus professor. During his years at Dartmouth, Lindgren also acted as a consultant to a number of government agencies including the Department of Interior, NASA and the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the author of five books as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. Mr. Smith has a multifaceted range of healthcare experiences marked by leading edge business developments mostly as an entrepreneur and board member and has been involved in higher education as an educator and administrator. Mr. Smith was the co-founder, President and CEO of SecLingua, Inc., a healthcare cybersecurity firm headquartered in Shelton, CT. He is on the Board of Directors of Community Health Initiative Napa County (CA), and is also currently on the Board of Advisors of Sober Grid, Inc. The majority of Mr. Smith’s career has been as an entrepreneur as he co-founded CompreMedx Cancer Centers Corporation (the first publicly traded firm to build freestanding cancer centers in partnership with oncologists and radiologists), co-owned Kramex Corporation, co-owned privately-held New World Healthcare Solutions, Inc. and assisted in the turn around and sale of Medical Sterilization, Inc. In addition, he co-founded Health Excel Management, Inc. and turned around and sold venture backed HelpMate Robotics, Inc. He has served on the Board of Directors for Baseline Medical, Inc. and Campus Connects, Inc., and was Managing Director of Negin-Smith Partnership, a private real estate venture. Mr. Smith has served on the Board of Directors of selected non-profit organizations such as the Connecticut Venture Group (CVG), the Hamden (CT) Chamber of Commerce and the Long Ridge Club, Inc. Joseph A. Hawkins Jr. is a retired senior study director at Westat in Rockville, Maryland, which is one of the foremost research and statistical survey organizations in the country. Prior to Westat, Hawkins was an evaluation specialist in the Montgomery County Department of Educational Accountability, where he managed school-based research and evaluation studies. During his 19-year career with the school district, his research covered a wide variety of topics, such as student discipline, curricula, teacher training and induction, graduate follow-ups, technology, and school reform. Charles Terrell had a 25-year career in medical education at BU Medical Center, including as associate dean for student affairs. He is cofounder of Cross Creek Higher Ed Associates, a pro-bono higher-educational advisory service promoting higher-education access and equity. He also served as vice president for diversity, policy, and programs and chief diversity officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges. He was a Colby trustee for eight years. Wendy Sherman is deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of State for the Biden Administration, the second highest office in the department. Sherman, who was confirmed by the US Senate in April 2021, brings her experience as secretary of state for political affairs in the Obama administration, where she was the lead negotiator of the Iran nuclear agreement that was signed in 2015. She is the first woman appointed deputy secretary of state in the U.S. Sherman has a degree in sociology and began her career as a social worker. Jane Williams is an economist who began her career in the early 70s at Merill Lynch. In 1982 she turned her passion into a platoform for empowerment when she co-founded Sand Hill Global Advisors, a wealth advisory and investment management firm. Emily Rafferty was the first female president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Born and raised in New York City, she began working at the MET in 1976 in the development department. She served as chief of institutional advancement and senior vice president of external affairs, before her appointment as president from 2005 to 2015. She also serves on the American Museum of Women's History Congressional Commission. Gary Dennis is a surgeon and professor of neurological surgery. In his work as a neurosurgeon he has served the under-served, and become a prominent health care advocate on behalf of the African American community. Dennis has testified before Congress, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health, among other government agencies, and was influential in getting the Association of American Medical Colleges to include such issues as anti-discrimination, health care disparities, and equal treatment of patients in the training of medical students. He was also a driving force in persuading Congress to fund a study by the Institute of Medicine, which resulted in the 2002 publication of Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Paul E. Pepe is a life-long academician, public health and public safety leader, and longstanding governmental public servant who has pioneered many multi-disciplinary advances in critical care, emergency services and disaster medicine over the past four decades. He is the founder, program director, and perennial moderator for the world-renowned EMS State of the Science: Gathering of Eagles conferences. Pepe is the longstanding coordinator of the Metropolitan EMS (9-1-1 system) Medical Directors global alliance; he actively leads a de facto physician coalition consisting of the medical final decision-makers for medical preparedness, training and patient care protocols for the 50 or so largest U.S. cities as well as their European metropolitan counterparts. Thomas Joseph Vaughn is an Earth Science Educator at Northeastern University. He has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Educators for dedication, achievements, and leadership in Earth sciences. Harboring more than 50 years of experience in his areas of expertise, Vaughn has succeeded in a number of academic positions, a science educator and consultant with the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, and a professor of environmental studies at Middlesex Community College. Moreover, Vaughn served as the assistant director for Project ESTEEM at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and an adult education instructor for Arlington Public Schools. Alex MacDonald reached his goal of becoming a trial lawyer representing catastrophically injured individuals and families after graduating from BU and Harvard Law School. MacDonald demonstrated that use of the diet pill fen-phen for more than three months increase one’s likelihood of getting primary pulmonary hypertension by roughly 50 times. In 1997, the Food and Drug Administration took the drug off the market. In January 2000, the Linnen trial resulted in the largest wrongful death recovery in the history of Massachusetts. Since then, he has spent much of his time prosecuting cases against the drug manufacturer—60 in all. MacDonald created and endowed the annual Howard Zinn Lecture Series at CAS. Carole Heilman is the former Director of the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As Director of DMID from 1999 to 2016, she provided scientific direction, oversight, and management of all extramural research programs on infectious diseases, (except AIDS). This responsibility included basic, pre-clinical and clinical research efforts. She played a critical role in launching and directing NIAID’s extramural efforts in research areas such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, biodefense, and emerging infectious diseases including Ebola. David Weinstein is the founder and CEO of Write the World LLC, an international online community of teenage writers, which he developed as a Senior Fellow at the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Michela Larson was one of Boston's trailblazing female restuaranteurs in a time when they were few and far between. Her namesake restaurant, Michela's, opened in 1985 and employed now-famous chefs such as Todd English and Jody Adams. She opened many other restaurants in Boston and opened her first coffee shop in 2019. Many famous people such as Edwin Land, co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation, Joe Kennedy II, and Steve Jobs. Jay Baldwin is a co-founder of Wind River and has focused on private placement activities and business development strategies for Wind River’s client companies. In 1975 he co-founded City Gardens, Inc., ultimately growing it to become the second largest interior landscaping company in the United States. He was responsible for managing company sales efforts, developing over 3,200 accounts, including Fidelity Investments, John Hancock Life Insurance Co., and the Bank of Boston. Charles Gifford has over 30 years of experience as an architect with a portfolio of homes, museums, theaters, and schools, as well as commercial work for national retail mall and mixed use developers. In 2010 Gifford and his wife combined their considerable talents and business acumen and opened the Bath and Tile Corporation in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Kenneth Anderson is the Kraft Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School as well as Director of the LeBow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics and Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is a Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Research Scientist and American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor. Anderson is the recipient of more than 150 honors and awards, including the International Myeloma Foundation Robert A. Kyle Lifetime Achievement Award; the American Association for Cancer Research Joseph H. Burchenal Award; and the American Society of Hematology William Dameshek Prize. Thomas Tritton (GRS'73) is a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Science History Institute. He is the former president of Haverford College and former president and CEO of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, an organization headquartered in Philadelphia as a library, museum, and center for scholars. Prior to joining CHF, he was president-in-residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Judith Hurwitz (CAS'73, COM'75) is president and CEO of Hurwitz & Associates LLC, a research and consulting firm focused on emerging technology including big data, cloud computing, service management, software development, computing management, and security. She is a technology strategist, thought leader, and author. Bonnie Feld is the chair of the board of directors of the Tony Award Signature Theatre, in Arlington, Virginia, the chair of the CAS Dean’s Advisory Board, and the campaign chair for CAS. Prior to these appointments, Feld served on the Holton-Arms School Board of Trustees for nine years and was acting president of the Corporation. Honorable Leslie E. Harris served as an associate justice for the Suffolk Juvenile Court from 1994 to 2014. He was also the director of the Melrose METCO Program, where he established and administered a busing program. Bill Whitaker has covered major news stories domestically and across the globe for CBS News over four decades. He is the 2018 winner of the Paul White Award for career achievement, RTDNA's highest honor. In 2014, He was named a 60 Minutes correspondent, marking the 2022-23 season as his ninth on the broadcast. Whitaker's investigation with The Washington Post into the origins of the opioid crisis has won more awards than any other 60 Minutes work. The first report in the two-part series revealed how the DEA's efforts to curb the epidemic were hampered by a law pushed by drug industry lobbyists. Mark Bookman is a founding partner of the law firm Lovett Bookman Harmon Marks LLP (LBHM). LBHM is a boutique firm specializing in trusts and estates, exempt organizations, and related tax matters. Mark’s practice includes sophisticated tax and estate planning, estate administration, the taxation of trusts and estates, and counseling public and private charities and corporate fiduciaries. A substantial portion of his practice encompasses estate tax planning involving closely held business interests. Mark is active on several boards of directors and is a frequent lecturer. Prior to the formation of LBHM, Mark was a partner in the international law firm of Reed Smith. Mark received his law degree from the Duke University School of Law. Alice Godfrey has worked in social work in both Boston and Chicago for many years, and she is interested in land conservation, serving on several land trust boards in Wisconsin. Godfrey’s husband is a lawyer in Chicago and a graduate of BU’s law school. They have two children, one who attended Boston University’s School of Law and the other a graduate of Emory University. Godfrey graduated from CAS in 1974, with a BA in psychology. She also received her MA in social work from Smith College in 1976. Robert Taubman serves as the current chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Taubman Centers, a real estate investment trust headquarted in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan which invests in shopping centers. He also serves on the executive board of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and the Southeastern Michigan Council of Governments. Dr. Robert Nagourney is an internationally recognized pioneer in cancer research and personalized cancer treatment. With more than 20 years of experience in human tumor primary culture analyses, Nagourney has authored more than 100 manuscripts, book chapters, and abstracts including publications in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Gynecologic Oncology, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Over the past 20+ years, Nagourney and his team at the Nagourney Cancer Institute have developed a laboratory technique, functional profiling, that measures how cancer cells respond when they are exposed to a wide variety of drugs and drug combinations. Richard DiSanti (CAS'76, LAW '81) is a lawyer specializing in the field of environmental law, health and safety. He built a career in environmental law, first in private practice and then in-house at Mobil Corporation, which became ExxonMobil, and then at Chevron. The work brought together the legal skills he learned at BU Law and the expertise he gained studying geography as an undergrad at BU’s College of Arts & Sciences. Roberto Mighty is a television producer, filmmaker, multimedia artist, photographer, sound designer and musician who uses interactive and online technology in his work. In 2021, he had three programs simultaneously on nationwide public television. His award-winning, critically acclaimed films are in many festivals. His immersive, interactive exhibitions and artist talks take place online, in museums, colleges, galleries, community organizations and visitor centers. Wendy D. Puriefoy is a nationally recognized expert on issues of school reform and civil society. Puriefoy was the president of Public Education Network (PEN), the nation’s largest network of community-based school reform organizations, founded in 1991. Under her visionary leadership, PEN grew into a national network of local education funds reaching more than 11 million children in 1,220 school districts and 18,000 schools nationwide. James A. Welu is a specialist in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting and cartography. He joined Worcester Art Museum staff in 1974, was made Chief Curator in 1980, Director in 1986, and finally Director Emeritus in 2011. He has also served as President of the Association of Art Museum Directors as well as Chair for the Accreditation Commission for American Alliance of Museum. He has organized several major exhibitions including "Judith Leyster: A Dutch Master and Her World." He is also active in the Worcester community. Larry Cancro is the Senior Vice President of Fenway Concerts and Entertainment. He joined the Red Sox in 1985 as director of marketing and became vice president of marketing in February of 1990. During Cancro's tenure in sales and marketing, the Red Sox set six club season attendance records. He started the Friendly Fenway fan program that resulted in fan favorites like "Sweet Caroline" and "Dirty Water." He is also the creator of Wally the Green Monster™. Michael Rezendez is an investigative reporter with The Boston Globe and shared a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for revealing the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. As a member of the Globe Spotlight Team, Mike was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice, once in 2007 for an investigation of the debt collection industry, and again in 2017 for an exposé of the mental health care system in Massachusetts. In addition, Mike shared a 2014 Pulitzer awarded to the Globe for its reporting on the bombing of the Boston Marathon. Ajmal Mahmood Qureshi served as a United Nations Ambassador to Uganda from 1999 to 2004. While a UN Ambassador to Uganda, he supervised technical Assistance projects relating to food security, poverty, MDGs, emergency assistance, rehabilitation and reconstruction. Since 2006 he has worked for Harvard University Asia Center. Steve Karbank is chairman of Karbank Real Estate Company, a Kansas City-based development and brokerage company specializing in industrial, office, and mixed-use properties. He is a member of BU’s Board of Overseers and former President of the BU Alumni Association. Carrie Hessler-Radelet was the director of the Peace Corps during Barack Obama's presidency. As Peace Corps director, Hessler Radelet has led an extensive organizational reform effort, most notably to enhance the health and safety of trainees and volunteers; improve the quality of technical training and program support; increase the impact and operational efficiency of agency operations; strengthen intercultural competence, and others. She holds honorary degrees from several colleges and received the Society for International Development, Award for Outstanding Leadership in International Development in November 2016. Patricia M. Flynn (GRS’73, GRS’80) is the Trustee Professor of Economics and Management at Bentley University, where she served as Dean of the McCallum Graduate School of Business for ten years. She has written extensively on the impacts of technology on jobs and economic development, gender equality, and corporate governance. Susan Miller is recognized internationally for her elegant and sharply realistic accounts of the contemporary family. Her books have been widely translated and published in 22 countries around the world. Some of her works incldue: Family Pictures (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), While I Was Gone (an Oprah’s Book Club selection), and The Senator’s Wife. Her numerous honors include a Guggenheim and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. Yukiko Okawa Omura was a project economist in the Infrastructure Division of the Inter-American Development Bank after graduating form BU. Starting in 1984, Omura then served for ten years as a vice president of J.P. Morgan, based in London and Tokyo. In 2010, she became the vice president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a Rome-based member of the United Nations Development Group specializing in poverty eradication in developing countries. She now lives in London. Santiago Levy (CAS'76, GRS'78, '80) played a crucially important role in the development of one of the leading antipoverty programs in the world. He introduced and oversaw the implementation of PROGRESA (later renamed Oportunidades) when he was Deputy Finance Minister of Mexico. Since then, CCT programs have spread to dozens of countries around the world, including Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Jamaica, Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt, Bangladesh, Morocco, Peru, and Cambodia. He is currently a vice president at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande is a notable scholar and diplomat. He started his academic career at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Nigeria, rising from graduate assistant in 1980 to full professor in 1998, and ultimately to vice-chancellor. From 2010 to 2016, he held the position of Director-General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Nigeria’s most reputable policy institution for training leaders from the public and private sectors. He was Nigeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 2018 to 2021. Jodi Colella (CAS'81) is a mixed media sculptor from Somerville, Massachusetts. Her childhood was spent in an urban neighbourhood brimming with kids, imaginative play and making art with found materials and traditional handwork techniques. She teaches fibre workshops at The De Cordova Museum School in Lincoln, Massachusetts, at Surface Design Association National Conferences and at several private venues. Her award-winning work is in many private collections and has been included in national exhibitions. Karen Morgan is currently a managing partner at TESIAC, a joint venture focused on accelerating electrification of regional transit systems. She is well known for her various development and executive roles in the renewable energy sector over the last 15 years. Most recently, Morgan co-founded and served as CEO of Dynamic Energy Networks (DEN), a distributed energy platform with Schneider Electric and The Carlyle Infrastructure Fund, established to own and operate microgrid and distributed energy networks, and which evolved into AlphaStruxure, a joint venture between Schneider and Carlyle. Richard Frank is the Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His research is focused on the economics of mental health and substance abuse care, long term care financing policy, health care competition, implementation of health reform and disability policy. Frank served as an editor for the Journal of Health Economics from 2005 to 2014. He was awarded the Georgescu-Roegen Prize from the Southern Economic Association, the Carl A. Taube Award from the American Public Health Association, and the Emily Mumford Medal from Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry. Cynthia Telles is the US Ambassador to Costa Rica. She is a clinical professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and serves on the executive committee of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is the founding director of the Hispanic Neuropsychiatric Center of Excellence. David Schonfeld is the founder and director of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement and has dedicated his career to helping schoolteachers and administrators support children in the wake of calamitous tragedies, from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to Hurricane Katrina. A board-certified pediatrician and chair of pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine, Schonfeld is the coauthor of The Grieving Student: A Teacher’s Guide and led the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Task Force on Terrorism. Alicia C. Mullen is a Principal at Washing Pond Ventures, which focuses on growing technology-enabled companies through either internal incubation or external investment. Mullen has been an advisor/board member to numerous companies including Techweek, Beme, and Brave New Software. Her past positions include Senior Vice President/CIO of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and CIO of First Options of Chicago and an LP at Spear, Leeds & Kellogg (acquired by Goldman Sachs.) She was instrumental in bringing handheld technology to the professional trading floors. Early in her career, she was selected as one of the Top Women in Computing by McGraw-Hill, the former publishers of BusinessWeek. She currently serves as a court-appointed Guardian Ad Litem for Palm Beach County and co-leads the Mullen Family Foundation which supports a broad array of education initiatives. Carmen Yulín Cruz is a politician who served as the mayor of Puerto Rico from 2013-2020. Prior to that, she served in the House of Representatives in Puerto Rico from 2009-2013. In 2021, she was appointed the Harriet L. Weissman and Paul M. Weissman Distinguished Fellow in Leadership at the Weissman Center for Leadership at Mount Holyoke College. Noreen Alisa-May Grice (CAS’85) is an American astronomer, educator, and tactile graphics artist. She is the president and founder of You Can Do Astronomy and has authored six astronomy books. Tatiana Riegel is an American film editor known for independent films such as Lars and the Real Girl, The Way Way Back and I, Tonya. She has been nominated for an Emmy for Pam and Tommy. She received an ACE Eddie award for "Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television." Olga Valanos is a filmmaker and the creator of Generation Red Nation, a documentary focusing on the life of Native Americans that earned her the Best Documentary award at the 9th Red Nation Film Festival. Valanos started as a director of commercials for local television channels. However, her desire to tell the story of the real life of Native Americans urged her to take her next step. Robert Schulze is an assistant professor of surgery and director of surgical nutrition and surgical critical care in the Division of General Surgery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. He completed his surgical residency training at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 1998 and his fellowship in trauma/critical care at the University of Maryland in 1999. Jamie Kaler graduated from Boston University, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States Navy and stationed in San Diego. After resigning his commission, he started performing in comedy clubs and eventually became involved in the Los Angeles comedy scene. He is a member of the ACME Company, and had roles on the sitcoms How I Met Your Mother and Will and Grace. He is known for portraying the character "Mike Callahan" on the TBS comedy My Boys. Drew Weissman (MED'87, GRS'87) is a world-renowned physician and researcher at Penn Medicine, best known for his contributions to RNA biology and the COVID-19 vaccines. He and co-collaborator Katalin Karikó, PhD, invented the modified mRNA technology being used in Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna's vaccines to prevent COVID-19. Weissman is the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, Director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, and professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Paul Beatty is an author and associate professor of writing at Columbia University. He is the recipient of the 2016 Man Booker Award for his book The Sellout, making him the first American writer to receive the prestigious literary award. The Sellout was awarded also awarded the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Ruth Moorman is an educator who began her career as a secondary school special-education teacher for students with learning disabilities and behavior problems. Her current areas of interest include educational leadership, supporting university and community partnerships, increasing opportunities for students in higher education, and funding early-stage medical research. Terri Tanielian, an expert in veteran policy and mental health policy, was appointed special assistant to the president for veterans affairs. Most recently, she was a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation, where she led several studies on the needs of military service members, veterans, their families, and their caregivers. In 2019, she was a RAND Congressional Fellow with the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. She also has served on several national advisory committees related to improving mental health responses to disasters, terrorist incidents, and public health emergencies. Yael Alkalay started her natural, luxury beauty business, Red Flower in 1999 after recovering from a stroke. Since opening her Manhattan store, which initially sold only petal-topped candles and flower teas, she’s developed more than 100 products, ranging from perfumes to skin serums, inspired by her frequent travels and containing meticulously sourced ingredients such as reiki mushroom extract and Finnish berry oils. Elaine Hsieh (CAS’90, MED’90) established a women’s health practice in Arlington, Massachusetts, after graduating from BU’s six-year medical program. Over the next 20 years, she slowly came to the realization that that healthcare was not her true career calling. In 2010, she co-founded a local chocolate shop, EHChocolatier, and since then, her business has been celebrated as "Best in Boston" among a long list of other accolades. Jin-Yong Cai started his career at the World Bank, from 1990-93, where he worked as an Economist in Central Europe and South Asia. He then joined Morgan Stanley, and in 1994, was seconded as Managing Director to the China International Capital Corporation. Cai became a partner of Texas Pacific Group (TPG) Capital, one of the largest private equity investment firms in the world, where he is based in Hong Kong, leading the firm’s infrastructure investment with a particular focus on emerging markets. Bryan Biniak is the CEO and founder of Connected Travel, a connected vehicle platform and applications services company developing and operating next-generation infotainment, commerce, and advertising solutions for the auto-ecosystem, including Honda Dream Drive™ and USAA’s HyperDrive™. James Edward Allard is a former Microsoft employee who founded Project 529, a company that builds software for cyclists and law enforcement that helps to prevent bike theft. While at Microsoft, he helped birth several new businesses, brands, and initiatives as a founding member of Xbox, Windows NT and Internet Information Server. He is currently the chief product and technology officer at GoFundMe, the fundraising platform. He received an honorary doctorate from BU in 2009. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman was confirmed to be Chief of Space Operations and head of the U.S. Space Force. As Chief, he serves as the senior uniformed Space Force officer responsible for the organization, training and equipping of all organic and assigned space forces serving in the United States and overseas. As members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chief of Space Operations and other service chiefs function as military advisers to the Secretary of Defense, National Security Council, and the President. Fabien Cousteau is an aquanaut, ocean conservationist, and documentary filmmaker. He is the grandson of oceanographic explorer Jacques Cousteau and spent his early years aboard his ships. From 2006 to 2010 Fabien was part of a multi-hour series for PBS called, “Ocean Adventures” with his father, Jean-Michel Cousteau, and sister, Céline. Inspired by his grandfather’s famous 1978 PBS series, “The Cousteau Odyssey”. He is a member of many charitable board that works with local communities and children to help restre local water ecosystems. Karin Wick serves on the Board of Fellows at The Harker School, San Jose, California, working with the Board of Trustees on initiatives and topics concerning the school as well as to provide insights and ideas about school issues. In addition, she has been a member of Sacred Heart Preperatory’s Parents’ Association Executive Board since the fall of 2018, and is also a member of the National Charity League, Mid-Peninsula, a mother/daughter organization focused on community service and the development of its members as leaders. Prior to her volunteer work, she co-founded and was President of Acacia Technical Services, an IT services firm. Rebecca Norlander is the founder, CEO, and CTO of Health 123, Inc., a technology company that has developed a digital platform for tracking personal health and wellness via mobile fitness devices, employers and physicians groups, and other data sources. She also is executive in residence at Illuminate Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Lisa A. Goodman is an American counseling psychologist known for her research on domestic violence and violence against women. She is Professor of Counseling Psychology at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Goodman is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division of Counseling Psychology. Jeffrey Prescott is the appointed U.S. deputy to the ambassador to the United Nations. In this role, he manages the office of Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United Nations. Prescott served on the Obama administration’s National Security Council as a special assistant to the president and senior director for Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Persian Gulf, and as deputy national security advisor to Vice President Biden. He also worked as a staff attorney for the Lawyers Committee on Human Rights, and most recently was the executive director of National Security Action and a senior fellow at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Jhumpa Lahiri is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian. Her debut collection of short-stories Interpreter of Maladies (1999) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first novel, The Namesake, was adapted into the popular film of the same name. In 2014, Lahiri was awarded the National Humanities Medal. She was a professor of creative writing at Princeton University from 2015 to 2022. In 2022, she became the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College. Scott Webster is a partner at the law firm Goodwin Procter LLP and is chair of its ERISA & Executive Compensation Practice. He specializes in a range of ERISA and executive compensation matters, including representing myriad financial service organizations and private investment fund sponsors on issues arising in connection with the investment of pension plan assets, as well as structuring and developing new investment products for retirement plans. Ken Norton is a product partner at Google Ventures (GV), where he provides product and engineering support to start-ups. Prior to joining GV, Ken was a group product manager at Google. In his years as a product manager at Google, he led product initiatives for Docs, Calendar, and Google Mobile Maps. Ken joined Google in 2006 with the acquisition of JotSpot, where he was vice president of products. Before JotSpot, Ken led product management at Yahoo Search. Back in the day when he was a software engineer, he was one of the first 50 employees of CNET and the founding CTO of Snap (which became NBC Internet). Ken has written extensively about the craft of product management. His classic essay, “How to Hire a Product Manager,” became the playbook for a generation of product managers. He’s also the reason that “donuts” and “product management” have become synonymous. He earned his BA in political science from the College of Arts & Sciences and his MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Demir Sabanci started his business career in Japan at Toyota City in 1993 working in various executive positions with Mitsui & Co. as well as Toyota Motor Corporation. He went on to similar roles in the Toyota Motor Sales in the United States. In 1996, he joined Sabanci Holding as a Board Member, and three years later founded Teknosa, the pioneer electronics retail chain in Turkey. Sabanci has held various executive positions in Sabanci Holdings while serving as the President of the Retail Strategic Business Unit that is composed of Carrefoursa, Diasa, and Teknosa. Between 2000 and 2004, he served as founding shareholder and first General Manager and Chairman of Teknosa. In 2002, he also founded Sedes Holding where he is currently the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is also is a founding shareholder and President of Odesa, Sedesco Inc., and Gratis. Sacha Pfeiffer is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and radio host. In November 2018, she joined NPR as an investigations correspondent. She originally joined The Boston Globe as a reporter in 1995, left in 2008 to work for WBUR-FM in Boston and NPR, returning to The Boston Globe in 2014. During her nearly seven years in public radio, Pfeiffer was a local host of All Things Considered and Radio Boston at WBUR, as well as a guest host of NPR's nationally syndicated On Point and Here & Now. Her on-air work received a National Edward R. Murrow Award for broadcast reporting, as well as numerous other awards Ha Jin is a Chinese-American novelist. Jin sets many of his stories and novels in China, in the fictional Muji City. He has won the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, Waiting (1999). He has received three Pushcart Prizes for fiction and a Kenyon Review Prize. Many of his short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories anthologies. Julee Stephenson is a corporate affairs and communications leader. She most recently served as senior vice president of corporate affairs at NiSource Inc. and has served in other leadership roles in public affairs, communications, customer experience, and marketing at the company. Stephenson consults with individuals and organizations to guide and develop integrated communication and engagement strategies. Her commitment to service and engaging in communities is the foundation of her current work and career, which has included leadership roles in public affairs, communications, customer experience, marketing and nonprofit program management. Karen Zacarías is an award-winning playwright whose works include The Book Club Play, Legacy of Light, Mariela in the Desert, The Sins of Sor Juana, The Sun Also Rises and adaptations of plays like How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Just Like Us and others. She was the first playwright-in-residence at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and her plays have been showcased at numerous theaters. Zacarías was invited by the White House Historical Association and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to write a family play about the White House. Brian Riley is the Managing Director of the Pacific Northwest Division at Rockefeller Capital Management. In this role, Riley is responsible for leading and expanding Rockefeller’s business and stable of elite Private Wealth Advisor teams in the Pacific Northwest. Riley joins Rockefeller from boutique investment firm First Republic Bank, where he served as an Executive Vice President on the Private Wealth Management team, catering to high net worth individuals. Tasneem Mayet is the founder and managing partner of Mint Wings FZC, and is mainly based out of Dubai and London. The company conducts corporate advisory, equity placement and joint venture related advisory services for clients with an interest in the MENASA region. Additionally, she serves as the business development director at Oxford Risk, a spin-out company of the University of Oxford, which uses leading academic resources to help clients manage risks. Previously, for two years she headed investments at FORSA, a Dubai World subsidiary focused on high net worth clients. During her service there, all clients were returned a profit over their capital invested. Before FORSA, Mayet was vice president and co-head of Equity Capital Markets at Millennium Finance Corporation (MFC) in the DIFC (formally a Dubai Islamic Bank group company). There she was both responsible for driving one of the largest IPO mandates for MFC that year to successful closure and for initiating MFC’s first equity research product. Outside of finance, when her schedule permits, Mayet is an emerging fine artist in the professional photography arena. She has had her work exhibited at Cotton’s Atrium (UK) in 2003 and Smethwick (UK) in 2004. She has studied photography at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (UK) and Escola Superior de Disseny (Spain), recently building a formidable portfolio in architectural photography. Mayet received her BA in economics cum laude from CAS in 1995. Wendy Nystrom is an Environmental Subject Matter Expert and the host of Environmental Social Justice (ESJ), an online webcast that bridges the chasm between environmental and climate experts and the general public. Her career has focused on pollution, environmental risk management, professional liability, social justice, and climate change where her combined knowledge in science, technology and risk has provided her with a unique view into companies’ exposures and prevention practices. Lisa Emso-Mattingly began her career at DRI/McGraw-Hill (now IHS Global Insight) and worked at the Eastern Research Group before joining Fidelity Investment as an economic analyst in the international forecasting division. At Fidelity, she was promoted to become Director of Economics Research and then advanced again to become Director of Research, Global Asset Allocation. Lisa is also a sought-after speaker at academic and business meetings because of her wide expertise in macroeconomics and financial markets. She is especially known as an active scholar and spokesperson on China and its role in trade and international growth. She is also a regular speaker on issues related to women. Raymond Lawler is the CEO of Hines' Asia Pacific Region, one of the largest privately held real estate investors and managers in the world, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. In his role, he oversees all development, acquisitions and operations activities across the region. Prior to joining Hines in 2007, he was a Captain in the United States Marine Corps and a Naval Aviator, receiving multiple commendations throughout his career. Stephen Aubin is a strategic advisor and national security expert whose career has spanned the aerospace and defense industry, service in government and the military, and academia. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Metawave Corporation. He was previously vice president for defense strategy and market research at Raytheon Technologies. Aubin previously held senior strategy and business development roles at the Raytheon Company, Boeing Company, and Lockheed Martin. Earlier in his career, he led policy and communications for the Air Force Association, was a research fellow at Boston University’s Center for Defense Journalism, worked in the Immediate Office of the Secretary of Defense, and served in the US Army as a military intelligence officer. Amy Chiu is the chief project development and asset management officer for Sempra LNG. In this role, Chiu leads the project development activities for all current and future LNG projects and oversees the management of both Cameron LNG and Energía Costa Azul joint ventures. She is also responsible for LNG operations. Loren Wold is the Assistant Dean for Biological Health Research in the College of Nursing and a Professor in the Colleges of Nursing and Medicine (Physiology and Cell Biology) at the Ohio State University. Dr. Wold’s laboratory currently investigates environmental triggers of cardiac disease, with emphasis on air pollution exposure and electronic cigarette exposure. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Life Sciences. Jonathan Hodge's strengths lie in helping clients define their goals that reach far beyond wealth accumulation. He has been at the forefront of building business and engagement within the African American community, a talent and commitment recognized by UBS Financial Services through his appointment to their inaugural Americas Diversity & Inclusion Council. These core values are what have inspired Hodges for over 20 years to build Affinity Wealth Partners into the preeminent, holistic wealth management team it has become. Ken Lin is the CEO and founder of Credit Karma, the personal finance website. Credit Karma is best known for providing more than two billion free credit scores to consumers. The company has since grown into a financial assistant for more than 80 million members. Prior to Credit Karma, Lin founded Multilytics Marketing. He is also very passionate about education and is currently on the Board of Trustees at Boston University and channels his passion for college affordability and accessibility into that role. Dr. Bela Pandit is a foot and ankle specialist and surgeon in Evergreen Park, Illinois. She is a nationally recognized, double board-certified physician who offers leading-edge care for all types of foot and ankle issues. She is often tapped by local and national news media for her expertise and strives to help her patients get back to the activities they love safely and quickly. Richard Park (CAS'00) is a principal of Pelican Growth Holdings and founder of THINKdeal Training, a mission-driven educational firm helping underserved students and career professionals pursue roles involving global mergers & acquisitions, private equity, investment research, and investment banking. Jennnifer Simpson, after working for several years as a social work therapist, school social worker, and program officer for after-school programs, returned to school for a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in environmental studies with a certificate in land preservation while working as an environmental education instructor. She is currently the owner/operator of Forge Hill Farms, a CSA in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. She is the former chair of the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton World Charity Foundation boards and former chair of the Steering Committee of the Templeton Religion Trust. Nick Lee is the deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Education’s Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development. Lee most recently was a senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He also served in civil service roles at the Department of Education and the Office of Management and Budget during the Bush-Cheney and Obama-Biden administrations, focusing on federal student aid programs. Stephen Bruno is the Vice President of Film Marketing at Prime Video & Amazon Studios, appointed in 2023. He has held many other prestigious roles in media including Director of Consumer Marketing at HBO, VP of Global Creative Marketing at Netflix, and the Chief Marketing Officer for MGM. Tejash Shah joined McKinsey and Company as a Management Consultant after practicing medicine as a physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital for two years. He spent nearly five years with McKinsey before being appointed Director of Corporate Strategy for Merck, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. In 2014, Tejash moved from New Jersey to the San Francisco Bay Area where he is currently Director of Strategy and Business Development for Samsung. Annie Tomasini, longtime aide to the Biden family, is director of Oval Office operations at the White House. Tomasini, who was cocaptain of the BU women’s basketball team, was Biden’s traveling chief of staff during his recent campaign, and previously served the Biden family in several positions, including as deputy press secretary for Vice President Biden and press secretary for Biden when he was chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Maeve Rochford is the owner of the small upscale bakeries, Sugar and Scribe in California. Sugar and Scribe launched in November 2010 winning Best Bakery 4 years in row and was listed in Sunset Magazine as 50 Best Shops in the West. The second Sugar and Scribe location opened in La Jolla, February 2015 and was honored with Best New Restaurant 2015 in La Jolla. In 2015, Rochford became Food Network Holiday Baking Champion and, in 2016, was named Irish Woman of the Year. Most recently, Rochford was awarded California Restaurant Association’s 2019 Chef of the Year. David Branigan is the director for International Programs at Bikes Not Bombs nonprofit. Branigan helps transport donated cycles to village nurses in Africa and youth groups in the Caribbean; some even become the pedal-powered engines of corn grinders and washing machines in Central America. Under his guidance, the organization annually ships some 5,000 used bikes from Massachusetts to communities in need around the world. Branigan spends much of his time visiting the countries supported by Bikes Not Bombs, notably Ghana, where he helped people with disabilities establish a co-op bike store. Gina Ortiz Jones is Under Secretary of the Air Force, confirmed by the Senate on July 22, 2021. The US Senate voted unanimously to confirm Jones, “clearing the way for the former Air Force intelligence officer to become the department’s second highest-ranking civilian leader,” according to the department. Jones was commissioned through the Air Force ROTC program at BU. She served as an Air Force intelligence officer in Iraq and elsewhere, and in a variety of other intelligence positions. In 2018 and 2020, she was Democratic nominee for the Texas 23rd Congressional District. John Degory served a two-year assignment as a Foreign Service officer on the staff of the Secretary of State from 2012 to 2014. During his assignment, John traveled around the world with Secretary Hillary Clinton and Secretary John Kerry, managing overseas trips and briefing materials. In August of 2014, he became a deputy spokesperson at the US embassy in New Delhi, India. Aaron Rasmussen is an American CEO and game designer. He is a co-founder of MasterClass, an online education platform, and the founder of Outlier.org, a college level education platform that offers online college courses. In 2012, he and cocreator Michael T. Astolfi created and crowdfunded BlindSide, a survival/horror adventure game. Joe Bagley is an archaeologist specializing in Native American, historical, public, and urban archaeology. He is the city archaeologist for Boston. He joined the City Archaeology Program in 2011 as the fourth City Archaeologist since 1983. Bagley curates a growing repository of archaeological collections currently housed at the City Archaeology Laboratory at 201 Rivermoor St. in West Roxbury, acts as the review and compliance agent for below-ground cultural resources in the city, educates the public in archaeology through a number of city programs, manages Rainsford Island, and manages the Archaeology Programs social media platforms. Rheanne Wirkkala serves as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Wirkkala joined the Department of Defense in February 2021 as the Special Assistant for Strategy to Secretary Austin. Wirkkala has spent a decade in federal service. Before joining the Biden-Harris Administration, she served in various roles on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, including as the Director of Investigations, Deputy Director of Investigations, Policy Director, and as a Professional Staff Member. Prior to serving on the Committee, Wirkkala was an intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, focused on political and military leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and on al Qaida. Wirkkala also served at the State Department in the office responsible for counter-threat finance and economic sanctions policy. Carolina Santo Domingo is the creative director and designer of Carolina Santo Domingo, a luxury hand bag company. Carolina spends much of her time in Florence and Venice, working directly with artisans and patternmakers who bring her sketches to life using knowledge that has been passed down from many generations. The brand’s leather, vegan, raffia, plant-based straw, cork, and wooden handbags are designed with not only quality, but elegance in mind, embodying aspects of the designer’s vast appreciation for art, tradition and sustainability. Priyanka Naik is a self-taught Indian vegan award-winning chef (Food Network champion, Quibi Dishmantled Winner), TV Host, Author of THE MODERN TIFFIN and columnist of "EcoKitchen" for The Washington Post. Priyanka has garnered attention from and been featured on VICE, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Forbes, GLAMOUR, one of America's 17 best chef's according to TODAY Show. She draws inspiration in her cooking from her mother’s home cooking, her travels to India, Mexico, Australia, and dozens of other countries, and the creative possibilities afforded by today’s abundance of plant-based substitutes for dairy products and eggs. Robyn Metcalfe is a former farmer, management consultant for Arthur D. Little, Inc., and editor of Sunset magazine, a West Coast garden, food, wine, travel, home, and living magazine. She graduated with a PhD in history in 2010 and currently teaches European history at both the College of General Studies and College of Arts & Sciences. Her dissertation was about 19th century urban markets. She also earned her MA in history from GRS in 2006. She has authored several books, including The New Wizard War: How the Soviets Steal U.S. High Technology and How We Give it Away. In 1994, Metcalfe, a native Californian, founded a nonprofit conservation farm in Maine, which began raising rare livestock for high-end restaurants in New England. Metcalfe received her MA from GRS in 2006 and her PhD from GRS in 2010. Alexandria O. Cortez at age 29, became the nation's youngest woman to serve in the U.S. Congress. She advocates a progressive platform that includes support for workplace democracy, Medicare for All, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, a Green New Deal, and abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Sara Garcia is a special assistant in the US Department of Education Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. Garcia, who studied psychology, worked most recently at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she was a program officer for the North America program’s Development Policy and Finance team. She has also worked as a senior research and advocacy manager for the postsecondary education team at the Center for American Progress (CAP) and as a higher education fellow for Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee through the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute fellowship program. Anya Packer is the former Connecticut Whale defender who is the executive director of the National Women’s Hockey League Players Association in 2017. She fought to increase the salary cap by 50% and negotiated the first 50/50 revenue share benefit which resulted in a 30% salary increase per player. She was named in Forbes "30 Under 30" in 2021. Marie-Philip Poulin is a two-time Canadian Olympic gold medalist, scoring both goals in the 2-1 win over the United States in the gold medal game at Vancouver in 2010 and the tying goal and the game-winning goal in overtime against the United States at Sochi in 2014. As a member of the BU women’s ice hockey team, she was the program’s all-time leader in goals (81), assists (100), and points (181). She helped lead BU to NCAA Championship games in 2011 and 2013 and today is considered one of the best women's hockey players of all time. Fernando Ortiz became special assistant to Secretary of Labor Martin Walsh when Walsh was confirmed by the US Senate. Ortiz had been the mayor’s city council liaison. He previously was director of finance for former Boston City Councilor Josh Zakim’s campaign for secretary of state. James Graham was named in Forbes "30 Under 30" in 2021. He is runs Community Phone, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that provides a single point of contact and bill for landline and wireless service and serves special needs trusts, municipalities and seniors.
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