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class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>JE has proudly been home to a number of brilliant minds and talents who went on to achieve great things after leaving Yale. The following are some particularly distinguished alumni:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Rogers_Resor">Stanley Rogers Resor</a> (1939) <span>served as secretary of the Army from 1965 to 1971 and oversaw the troop buildup in Vietnam, investigated the massacre of civilians by American soldiers at My Lai and laid the groundwork for the all-volunteer Army. </span><span>Mr. Resor appointed the first female Army generals, supervised the development of helicopter-based warfare tactics and ended racial discrimination in off-base housing at German bases.</span></li> <li><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeorge_Bundy">McGeorge Bundy</a> (1940) studied mathematics here at Yale then went on to become the United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-1966), where he was involved in the United States’ escalation of the Vietnam War</span></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lindsay">John Lindsay</a> (1944) received both his bachelor’s and law degree from Yale, then served as a member of the US House of Representatives before being elected as mayor of New York City in (1966-1973).</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann">Murray Gell-Mann</a> (1948) studied physics at Yale then achieved great success in studying elementary particles (quarks, pions and neutrinos), which earned him a Nobel Prize in physics in 1969.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_F._Brady">Nicholas F. Brady</a> (1952) entered politics after Yale and served briefly in the Senate, then was appointed the 68th Secretary of the Treasury in 1988 and developed a debt-reduction plan for developing countries through the use of “Brady Bonds.”</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_H._Lapham">Lewis Henry Lapham</a> (1956) is an American writer. He was the editor of the American monthly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine" title="Harper's Magazine">Harper’s Magazine</a> from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_H._Lapham#cite_note-1">[1]</a> He is the founder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapham%27s_Quarterly" title="Lapham's Quarterly">Lapham’s Quarterly</a>, a quarterly publication about history and literature, and has written numerous books on politics and current affairs.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Damrosch">Leopold Damrosch Jr.</a> (1963) is an American author and professor. In 2001, he was named the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" style="background-image:none" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a><span>.</span><sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Damrosch#cite_note-Shen-1" style="background:none">[1]</a></sup><span> He received a B.A. from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University" style="background-image:none" title="Yale University">Yale University</a><span>, an M.A. from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University" style="background-image:none" title="Cambridge University">Cambridge University</a><span>, where he was a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Scholarship" style="background-image:none" title="Marshall Scholarship">Marshall Scholar</a><span>, and a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" style="background-image:none" title="Doctor of Philosophy">Ph.D.</a><span> from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University" style="background-image:none" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a><span>. His areas of academic specialty include </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism" style="background-image:none" title="Romanticism">Romanticism</a><span>, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" style="background-image:none" title="Age of Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a><span>, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan" style="background-image:none" title="Puritan">Puritanism</a><span>.</span><sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Damrosch#cite_note-Shen-1" style="background:none">[1]</a></sup></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gustave_Speth">James Gustave Speth</a> (1964) graduated summa cum laude from Yale then helped found the National Resources Defense Council and later the World Resources institute. He also served as Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 1999-2009.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry">John Kerry</a> (1966) studied political science at Yale before launching a stellar career in politics, advancing from lieutenant governor of Massachusetts to the US Senate (1984-2013) where he chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was elected the Democratic candidate in the 2004 presidential race, and in 2013 assumed office as the 68th US Secretary of State under Barack Obama. Kerry recently spoke at the Yale commencement for the Class of 2014.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Smith">Fred Smith</a> (1966) studied economics at Yale where he received a “C” on a paper outlining the plan for what became FedEx, which he founded in 1971. In 2014, Smith was listed as 26th on Fortune Magazine’s list of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.”</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_W._Betts">Roland Betts</a> (1968) is known for his work as a developer and investor in New York City, where he founded, and is now the owner of, Chelsea Piers in 1992. Betts also served on the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation from 2001 to 2006, during which time he chaired the committee charged with rebuilding the World Trade Center site.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Locke">Gary Locke</a> (1972) studied political science and Yale and went on to serve as the 21st governor of Washington (1997-2005) and the US Secretary of Commerce in the Obama Administration (2009-2011). Locke was the first US governor of Asian descent and the first Chinese American to serve as the US Ambassador to China, a position he held from 2011 to 2014.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Lucas">Gary Lucas</a> (1974) studied English at Yale and first established his career in music as a DJ for Yale’s radio station WYBC FM. Lucas now tours the world playing guitar, even recently playing at the US Consulate in Milan, was nominated for a Grammy Award, and was listed as one of the “100 Greatest Living Guitarists” by <em>Classic Rock</em> in 2009.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Buckley_%28novelist%29">Christopher Buckley</a> (1975) was the managing editor of <em>Esquire</em> on campus at Yale, then went on work as a speechwriter for then-Vice President George H.W. Bush in 1981. He is known for his works of political satire, including numerous novels and articles for national newspapers and magazines.</li> <li>Ronni Alexander (1977) studied psychology at Yale and is known for being a plaintiff in the 1980 case <em>Alexander v. Yale</em>, the first use of Title IX in charges of sexual harassment against a university.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_E._Ingber">Donald Ingber</a> (1977) studied molecular biophysics & biochemistry and did cancer research at Yale, and is considered a founder of the field of biologically inspired engineering. He founded Tensegra, Inc., which 3-D printed medical devices, and most recently Emulate, Inc. to commercialize human “organs-on-chips.”</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Dubinsky">Donna Dubinsky</a> (1977) studied history at Yale and went on to serve as CEO of Palm, Inc., developer of the Palm Pilot, and later co-founded Numenta, Inc., an artificial intelligence company. Fortune Magazine nominated Dubinsky to the Innovators Hall of Fame in 1999 for her contribution to the development of the PDA.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Krislov">Marvin Krislov</a> (1982) studied political science at Yale and was editor of the <em>Yale Law Journal, </em>before embarking on a law career during which he served at the US Department of Justice, the White House Counsel and the US Department of Labor. Krislov was the vice president and general counsel of the University of Michigan for nine years before being appointed the 14th president of Oberlin College.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Klobuchar">Amy Klobuchar</a> (1982) graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a degree in political science and went on to be elected to the US Senate in 2007. The <em>New York Times </em>listed Klobuchar as one of the seventeen women most likely to become the first female President of the United States, and <em>MSNBC</em> and <em>The New Yorker</em> listed her as a likely nominee to the US Supreme Court.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amity_Shlaes">Amity Shlaes </a>(1982) graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a degree in English and went on to serve on the editorial board of the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> and write columns for the <em>Financial Times</em> and <em>Bloomberg News</em>. Shlaes is now a current events columnist for Forbes Magazine and has also published four <em>New York Times</em> best-sellers.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Perrotta">Tom Perrotta</a> (1983) studied English at Yale then went on to become a novelist and screenwriter. Two of his novels, <em>Election </em>and <em>Little Children</em> were adapted into Academy Award-nominated films and Perrotta himself earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Perrotta is also known for his novel <em>The Leftovers</em>, which was adapted into a television series on HBO in 2014.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Solomon">Andrew Solomon </a>(1985) graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a degree in English, and his 2001 book <em>The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression</em> won the National Book Award, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and was included in <em>The Times</em> list of the one hundred best books of the decade.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Leonhardt">David Leonhardt</a> (1994) studied applied mathematics at Yale and was editor-in-chief of the <em>Yale Daily News</em>, before going on to write columns for <em>Businessweek</em>, the <em>Washington Post</em> and The Times, and later serving as the Washington Bureau Chief for the <em>New York Times</em>. In 2011 Leonhardt was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, and now serves as the managing editor of a new <em>New York Times</em> venture called <em>The Upshot</em>.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Epstein">Theo Epstein</a> (1995) majored in American Studies at Yale and served as the sports editor for the <em>Yale Daily News</em>. He is known for being the youngest general manager in the history of Major League Baseball, a position he assumed with the Boston Red Sox in 2002 at the age of 28. Epstein was general manager in 2004 when the Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years, and has been the President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs since 2011.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannie_Suk">Jeannie Suk Gersen</a> (1995) is the John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she has taught constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, family law, and the law of art, fashion, and the performing arts. Before joining the faculty in 2006, she served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Harry Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She was educated at Yale (B.A. 1995), at Oxford (D.Phil 1999) where she was a Marshall Scholar, and at Harvard Law School (J.D. 2002), where she was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. She has written three books and many articles in scholarly journals and general media. Her book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/At-Home-Law-Revolution-Transforming/dp/0300172621?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">At Home in the Law</a>, was awarded the Law and Society Association’s Herbert Jacob Prize for the best law and society book of the year. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of Harvard Law School’s Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence. She is a Contributing Writer to The New Yorker.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki">Anne Wojcicki</a> (1996) studied biology at Yale and played on the varsity women’s hockey team, then went on to do research at the National Institutes of Health before becoming a health care consultant at Investment AB. In 2006, Wojcicki co-founded 23andMe, the company whose personal genome testing kit was named “Invention of the Year” by <em>Time</em> magazine in 2008. In 2013, <em>The Fast Company</em> named Wojcicki “The Most Daring CEO.”</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lopez">Robert Lopez</a> (1997) studied English at Yale, where he wrote three plays and was a member of the <em>Yale Spizzwinks </em>a capella group. After Yale, Lopez launched an incredibly successful career in songwriting of musicals, most notably <em>The Book of Mormon</em>, <em>Avenue Q</em> and the movie <em>Frozen. </em>Lopez is the youngest of only twelve people to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarissa_Ward">Clarissa Ward</a> (2002) <span>is a British-American television journalist who is the chief international correspondent for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" style="background-image:none" title="CNN">CNN</a><span>.</span><sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarissa_Ward#cite_note-2" style="background:none">[2]</a></sup><span> Previously, she was with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News" style="background-image:none" title="CBS News">CBS News</a><span>, based in London. Before her CBS News position, Ward was a Moscow-based news correspondent for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_News" style="background-image:none" title="ABC News">ABC News</a><span> programs.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarissa_Ward#cite_note-CBSBio-3" style="background:none">[3]</a></span></li> <li> <p><span><span><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Chen">Nathan Chen</a> (2024) </span></span></span>is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_skating" title="Figure skating">figure skater</a>. He is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_skating_at_the_2022_Winter_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_singles" title="Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's singles">2022 Olympic champion</a>, a three-time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Figure_Skating_Championships#Men" title="">World champion</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_World_Figure_Skating_Championships" title="2018 World Figure Skating Championships">2018</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_World_Figure_Skating_Championships" title="2019 World Figure Skating Championships">2019</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_World_Figure_Skating_Championships" title="2021 World Figure Skating Championships">2021</a>), the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Four_Continents_Figure_Skating_Championships" title="2017 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships">2017 Four Continents</a> champion, a three-time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_of_Figure_Skating_Final" title="Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final">Grand Prix Final</a> champion (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_Grand_Prix_of_Figure_Skating_Final" title="2017–18 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final">2017</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_Grand_Prix_of_Figure_Skating_Final" title="2018–19 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final">2018</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019-20_Grand_Prix_of_Figure_Skating_Final" title="2019-20 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final">2019</a>), a ten-time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISU_Grand_Prix_of_Figure_Skating" title="ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating">Grand Prix</a> medalist (8 golds, 1 silver, 1 bronze), the presumptive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_skating_at_the_2022_Winter_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Team_event" title="Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Team event">2022 Olympic champion in the team event</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Chen#cite_note-Valieva-9">[note 1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Chen#cite_note-Changes_in_medal_standings2022-10">[9]</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_skating_at_the_2018_Winter_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Team_event" title="Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Team event">2018 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event</a>, and a six-time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Figure_Skating_Championships" title="U.S. Figure Skating Championships">U.S. national champion</a> (2017–22). At the junior level, Chen is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_Grand_Prix_of_Figure_Skating_Final" title="2015–2016 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final">2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final</a> champion, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%932014_Grand_Prix_of_Figure_Skating_Final" title="2013–2014 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final">2013–14 Junior Grand Prix Final</a> bronze medalist, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_World_Junior_Figure_Skating_Championships" title="2014 World Junior Figure Skating Championships">2014 World Junior</a> bronze medalist, and a six-time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISU_Junior_Grand_Prix" title="ISU Junior Grand Prix">Junior Grand Prix</a> medalist (5 golds, 1 silver).</p> </li> </ul> </div></div></div> </div> <div class="clearfix"> <nav class="links node-links clearfix"></nav> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-sharethis block-sharethis-block 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