List of Connecticut College alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Connecticut College.

Literature and poetry

Michael Collier ('76): Poet Laureate of Maryland, 2001–2004; Director of The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College
Donald Gallinger ('76): novelist
Dobby Gibson ('93): poet
Cecelia Holland ('65): novelist
Gayl Jones ('72): novelist, poet, playwright
William Lychack ('88): novelist
Luanne Rice ('77): novelist

Sloane Crosley ('00): best-selling author; essayist; publicist with Vintage Books
David Grann ('89): journalist and best-selling and staff writer at The New Yorker
Joshua Green ('94): senior national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek and a weekly columnist for the Boston Globe
Nan Kempner ('52): socialite, contributing editor of Vogue
Elizabeth Peer ('57): journalist; first female foreign bureau chief at Newsweek
A. B. Stoddard ('89): journalist, political commentator, associate editor of The Hill

Edward Burger ('85): professor of mathematics, Williams College
Martha Chen: lecturer in public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Cynthia Enloe ('60): research professor of international relations and women's studies, Clark University
David Haussler ('75): professor at University of California, Santa Cruz, member of National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Mark Samuels Lasner: Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware
Shelley Taylor ('68): social psychologist, pioneer in health psychology, winner of Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from APA
Ellen Vitetta ('64): Director, Cancer Immunobiology Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center National Acad. Sciences; Institute of Medicine; American Acad. Arts and Sciences
Haden Guest ('93): Director of the Harvard Film Archive, and Lecturer at Harvard University

Agnes Gund: philanthropist, art patron and collector, advocate for arts education
Christine Y. Kim: associate curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; former associate curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem^[1]
Peter Som ('93): fashion designer, winner of the 2002 Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation prize^[2]
Marcia Tucker: first female curator of the Whitney Museum; founding director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art
Bachman Clem ('01): An award winning interior design and CC distinguished alumni speaker

H. Jon Benjamin: actor, comedian and writer best known for his voice-over roles
Ned Colt: ('79): former NBC News correspondent^[3]
Lee Eisenberg ('99): writer and producer for 'The Office and the film Year One
Leslie King ('92): executive producer, CNN Headline News
Scott Lowell: actor, Queer as Folk
Leland Orser ('82): actor
Joan Rivers: actress, comedian; attended CC briefly, then transferred to Barnard College
Susan Saint James: actress Kate & Allie; attended CC, did not graduate
Sam Seder: writer, actor, political commentator, radio host on Air America
Benjamin "Brock" Johnson ('05): host, APM Marketplace Tech
Christof Putzel ('01): is an award-winning journalist and correspondent for Al Jazeera America's

Estelle Parsons ('49): stage, film, and television actor; winner of 1967 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Bonnie and Clyde
Judy Irving ('68): Emmy Award and Sundance-winning filmmaker
Kevin Wade ('76): screenwriter, Working Girl, Meet Joe Black
David Dorfman (MFA '81): Professor of Dance, chair of Dance Department, choreographer of modern dance
Charles Chun ('90): Hollywood film and television actor, Scrubs
Jeffrey Finn ('92): Broadway producer, nominated for 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for On Golden Pond
André Robert Lee ('93): filmmaker, The Prep School Negro, I'm Not Racist...Am I?
Sean Fine ('96): winner of Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for Inocente; director of Academy Award nominated feature documentary War/Dance

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah : indie rock band: Alec Ounsworth ('00), Tyler Sargent ('00), Robbie Guertin ('02), Lee Sargent ('00), Sean Greenhalgh ('01)
Chris Harford: singer, songwriter
Vance Gilbert ('79): singer-songwriter, folk musician
Henrik Takkenberg ('90): musician, songwriter, producer

Helen Lehman Buttenwieser ('27): lawyer, member of Lehman family
Catherine Gregg: philanthropist and First Lady of New Hampshire (1953–1955)^[4]
Mary Ann Handley: Connecticut State Senator
Bruce Hoffman ('76): Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency, Director of the RAND Corporation's Washington Office, professor at Georgetown University
Ann Mallek ('71) - member of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
Suzi Oppenheimer ('56): New York State Senator
Jay Stamper ('95): Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from South Carolina
Susan Thomases ('65): attorney, presidential adviser
Patricia McGowan Wald ('48): U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia judge; member of International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; member of the Iraq Intelligence Commission
Kimba Wood ('66): federal judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

Tim Armstrong ('93): CEO of America Online (AOL); former Google Inc. Vice President, Advertising Sales
John F. Remondi: the Chief Executive Officer of Navient Corporation

Anita DeFrantz ('74): former Vice President of the International Olympic Committee, member of bronze medal U.S. women's eight-oared shell, 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics
Jim Gabarra ('82): Olympic soccer player
David Gross ('88): Current and first commissioner of Major League Lacrosse
Jeff Idelson ('86): Current director of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Rand Pecknold ('90): Current head coach of the Quinnipiac University Men's Ice Hockey team.
Tim Young ('92): Olympic silver medalist in quadruple sculling.

Blanche Boyd: Professor of English and Writing
Edward Harkness: Conn College benefactor, Standard Oil heir and advocate of the Harkness Table method
Barkley Hendricks: Professor of Art
Leo Higdon: President of Connecticut College, 2006-2013
Peter Jarvis: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music
William Meredith: winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and Professor of English at the college from 1955-1983
Frederick Henry Sykes: President of Connecticut College, 1913-1917
William Wuyke: former Venezuelan Olympian; strength and conditioning coach

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