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
Haden Guest ('93): Director of the Harvard Film Archive, and lecturer at Harvard 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

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

H. Jon Benjamin: actor, comedian and writer best known for his voice-over roles
Molly Cheek ('73): It's Gary Shandling's Show
Ned Colt: ('79): former NBC News correspondent^[3]
Lee Eisenberg ('99): writer and producer for The Office and the film Year One
Scott Lowell: actor, Queer as Folk
Leland Orser ('82): actor
Christof Putzel ('01): award-winning journalist and correspondent for Al Jazeera America
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

Chrystelle Trump Bond: dancer, choreographer, author, and dance historian
Charles Chun ('90): Hollywood film and television actor, Scrubs
David Dorfman (MFA '81): Professor of Dance, chair of Dance Department, choreographer of modern dance
Sean Fine ('96): winner of Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for Inocente; director of Academy Award-nominated feature documentary War/Dance
Jeffrey Finn ('92): Broadway producer, nominated for 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for On Golden Pond
Judy Irving ('68): Emmy Award and Sundance-winning filmmaker
Estelle Parsons ('49): stage, film, and television actor; winner of 1967 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Bonnie and Clyde
Kevin Wade ('76): screenwriter, Working Girl, Meet Joe Black

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
Sean Spicer ('93): Press Secretary to President Donald Trump
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: 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
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
William Meredith: winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and Professor of English at the college, 1955-1983
Frederick Henry Sykes: President of Connecticut College, 1913-1917
William Wuyke: former Venezuelan Olympian; strength and conditioning coach

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