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Once an Eagle, Always an Eagle

From heads of state to pillars of the community, AU has a surplus of notable alumni. AU graduates continue a legacy of transforming ideas into impact across the globe.

We know it's impossible to capture all worthy stories in one place, but here we share some of the many contributions made by AU's changemaking graduates.

Ann Beattie, CAS/BA听鈥69
Novelist

Lonnie Bunch, CAS/BA 鈥74, CAS/MA 鈥76
14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

John Fahey, CAS/BA 鈥62^
Musician

Dominic Giampaolo, CAS/BS 鈥91
Software Engineer, Developer of the Be File System

Irene Glowinski, CAS/BS 鈥75
Former Deputy Director, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Disease, NIAID,听National Institutes of Health

Edmund Gordon, SPA/MA 鈥50
Co-architect, Federal Head Start Program, professor of Psychology Emeritus of Yale University and Interim Dean at Teachers College, Columbia University

Donald Harward, CAS/MA 鈥63
Sixth President, Bates College

Monica Jeffries Hazangeles, CAS/MA 鈥96
President and CEO, Strathmore

Cornelius Kerwin, SPA/BA 鈥71
14th President of 艾可直播 University

Dr. Carol Leary, CAS/PhD 鈥88听
President Emerita, Bay Path University

Carmen Maria Machado, CAS/BA 鈥07
Finalist for the National Book Award; Author, Her Body and Other Parties

Dambisa Moyo, CAS/BS 鈥91, Kogod/MBA 鈥92
Economist; Author; Member, House of Lords

Brittany Packnett Cunningham, SOE/MAT 鈥09
Activist, Educator, Writer, Leader

Becca Peixotto, CAS/MA 鈥13, CAS/PhD 鈥17
Archaeologist

Lara Prescott, SPA/BA 鈥04
Author of New York Times bestseller The Secrets We Kept

Margo Seibert, SIS/BA 鈥05
Drama Desk Award-nominated Actress; the original Adrian in Broadway's Rocky the Musical

Jeff Sine, SIS/BA 鈥76
Co-Founder and Partner, Raine; Broadway Producer; three-time Tony Award winner

Molly Smith, CAS/MA 鈥76
Former Artistic Director, Arena Stage

Dana Thomas, SOC/BA 鈥88
Author of New York Times bestseller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

John Wineglass, CAS/BA 鈥94
Emmy Award-winning composer

Tanekeya Word, CAS/MA 鈥11
Visual Artist

^ deceased

Facundo Bacardi, Kogod/BSBA 鈥90
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Bacardi Limited

Mark Bucher, SPA/BA 鈥90
Co-Founder, Medium Rare Steak Frites

Michael Chasen, CAS/BS 鈥93
Co-Founder and Former CEO, Blackboard Inc.; Founder and CEO, Class

Mong-Yong Chung, Kogod/MBA 鈥91
Chairman, Hyundai Sungwoo Holdings

Richard Clark, Kogod/MBA 鈥70
Former President and CEO, Merck & Co.

Gary Cohn, Kogod/BSBA 鈥82
Vice Chairman, IBM

Francesco Vanni d鈥橝rchirafi, Kogod/BS 鈥81
Chairman, Euroclear Group听

Melissa Di Donato, Kogod/MBA '96
CEO,听Kyriba

Dean Factor, Kogod/BSBA 鈥87
CEO and Co-Founder, Smashbox Cosmetics and Smashbox Studios

Marco Gobbetti, Kogod/BSBA 鈥81
CEO,听Salvatore Ferragamo; Former CEO, Burberry

Victoria Harker, Kogod/MBA 鈥90
Former Executive Vice President and CFO,听TEGNA Inc.

Wilbert Hopper, CAS/BS 鈥56^
Former President and CEO, Petro-Canada

Jesse Itzler, SPA/BA 鈥90
Entrepreneur, Author, Owner of the Atlanta Hawks

Robert Kogod, Kogod/BS 鈥62
Former Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Charles E. Smith companies

Almar Latour, SOC/MA 鈥96
CEO, Dow Jones

Dambisa Moyo, CAS/BS 鈥91, Kogod/MBA 鈥92, Hon. DHL 鈥22听
Economist; Author; Member, House of Lords

Nicole Nason, SPA/BA 鈥92
Vice President of Federal Affairs for Commercial Aviation, Sustainability, and Corporate Policy at Boeing; Former Director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Katrina Parrott, Kogod/BSBA 鈥80
Founder, iDiversicons

Jeff Perkins, SPA/BA 鈥96
Chief Marketing Officer, Greenlight Guru

Michael Santomassimo, Kogod/BS 鈥96
Chief Financial Officer, Wells Fargo

David Steward II, Kogod/BS 鈥98
CEO, Polarity; CEO, Lion Forge Animation

Gary Veloric, Kogod/BS 鈥82
Founder, The Red Stripe Plane Group听

Cheong Ee Wee, Kogod/BS 鈥77
CEO, United Overseas Bank

^ deceased

Caroline Aaron, CAS/BA 鈥74
Actress and Producer;听Shirley Maisel in听The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Max Brooks, SOC/MA 鈥97
Author and Actor

Patrick Butler, SOC/MA鈥96
President and CEO, America鈥檚听Public Television Stations (APTS)

Alisyn Camerota, SOC/BA 鈥88
Anchor/Correspondent, CNN; Author

Neil Cavuto, SOC/MA 鈥82
Fox News Commentator, Author of Your Money or Your Life

Elizabeth Chomko, CAS/BA 鈥04
Actor, Director, Playwright, Screenwriter

Susan Davis, CAS/BA 鈥01
Congressional Correspondent, NPR; Co-host, NPR Politics Podcast

Meg DeLoatch, CAS/BA 鈥90
Former Executive Producer, CBS鈥檚 The Neighborhood

Patricia de Stacy Harrison, CAS/BA 鈥68
President and CEO, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs

Bob Edwards, SOC/MA 鈥72^
First Host of NPR鈥檚 Morning Edition, Former听Host of The Bob Edwards Show, Former Host of NPR鈥檚 All Things Considered, Peabody Award winner

Richard Ernest Thompson, CAS/BA 鈥71
Playwright, On Golden Pond; Academy Award Winner

Hallie Eisenberg, SPA/BA 鈥14
Actress

Darryl Frank, SOC/MA 鈥91
Co-President and Executive Producer, Amblin Television; Former Co-head, Dreamworks Television

Pauline Frederick, BA 鈥30, MA^
Pioneering woman in 艾可直播 journalism, reporter for ABC Radio and correspondent for ABC TV, where in 1946 she was promoted as first and only woman in television news

Danielle Gelber, SIS/MA 鈥82
President and Founder, Acoustic Productions; Former Executive Vice President, Wolf Films and NBC Universal; Former Senior Vice President, Showtime; Former Senior Vice President, FOX

Eric听Gertler, WCL/JD 鈥90
Executive Chairman and CEO,听US News and World Report

David Gregory, SIS/BA 鈥91
CNN Political Analyst, Former moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, Former Chief White House Correspondent,听NBC News

Goldie Hawn, att听鈥63-64, HD听鈥02
Academy Award-winning Actress

Clark Howard, SPA/BA 鈥76
Host of The Clark Howard Show, Author

Star Jones, SPA/BA 鈥83
Television Personality, Lawyer, Journalist, Fashion Designer, Author, and Women鈥檚 and Diversity Advocate

Barry Josephson, SPA/BA 鈥78
Film Producer (Enchanted, Ladykillers, Like Mike, and FOX TV鈥檚 Bones), Former Music Manager, three-time Oscar Nominee

Tom Karsch, SPA/BA 鈥80
Former Executive Vice President and General Manager, Turner Classic Movies

Pam Kaufman, SOC/BA 鈥85
President and CEO of International Markets, Global Consumer Products & Experiences, Paramount Global; Former听President, ViacomCBS Consumer Products

Florence King, CAS/BA 鈥57^
Writer for The National Review and best-selling author

Rick Leventhal, SOC/BA 鈥86
Former Senior Correspondent, Fox News

Barry Levinson, SOC/BA 鈥67
Director, Film Producer, and Screenwriter; Winner of several Emmys and an Academy Award

Louis Lomax, CAS/MA 鈥44^
First African 艾可直播 Television Journalist;听Author

Barry McCaffrey, SPA/MA 鈥71
NBC News and MSNBC Military Analyst, Drug Czar under President Bill Clinton, retired US Army General

Ayman Mohyeldin, SIS/BA 鈥00, 鈥⊿IS/MA 鈥01
Journalist, NBC News and MSNBC; Host,听Ayman; Former anchor, Ayman Mohyeldin Reports

Robert Morton, SOC/BA 鈥75
Former Producer,听Late Night with David Letterman;听Emmy Award Winner

Nancy Meyers, SOC/BA 鈥70
Film Writer and Director (The Parent Trap, It鈥檚 Complicated, Something鈥檚 Gotta Give, What Women Want, Saving Private Ryan, and The Intern)

Sophia Nelson, WCL/JD 鈥94听
Author, Journalist, CNN Pundit,听USA TODAY contributor; Host of 鈥淥ne America鈥 podcast

Ed O鈥橩eefe, SPA/BA 鈥05
Senior White House and Political Correspondent, CBS News; Former congressional reporter, The Washington Post

Mike O鈥橫eara, SOC/BA 鈥82
Host,听The Mike O鈥Meara Show, Former Co-Host,听Don and Mike Show

Jennifer Palmieri, SPA/BA 鈥88
Co-Host/Producer Emmy-Nominated SHOWTIME's The Circus; New York Times #1 Best-Selling Author;听Former White House Communications Director

Tara Palmeri, SOC/BA 鈥08
Senior Political Correspondent for subscription news platform Puck

Nicole Petallides, SOC/BA 鈥93
Anchor, TD Ameritrade Network; Former Anchor,听FOX Business Network

Giuliana Rancic, SOC/MA 鈥97
Celebrity News Personality, E! Networks; Daytime Emmy Award winner

Kathy Reichs, CAS/BA 鈥70
Author (Bare Bones, D茅j脿 Dead); Writer/Producer, FOX-TV鈥檚 Bones

Janet Rodriguez, SOC/BA 鈥06
Internal Communications Manager, WhatsApp; Former Fellow, AU's Sine Institute of Policy and Politics

Benjamin Salisbury, SOC/BA 鈥03
Actor, The Nanny

Suzanne Scott, SPA/BA 鈥88
CEO, Fox News

Willard Scott, CAS/BA 鈥55^
Television Personality, The Today Show; Original Creator and Potrayor of Ronald McDonald

Steve Scully, SOC/BA 鈥82
Host, Sirius XM's听The Briefing with Steve Scully; Former Host, Political Editor, Senior Producer, C-SPAN's Washington Journal

Tom Shales, SOC/BA 鈥67^
Former TV critic, The Washington Post; 1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Criticism听

Judy Sheindlin, SPA/BA 鈥63
Television Court Show Judge, Judge Judy

Cal Thomas, CAS/BS 鈥77
Former Panelist, Fox News Channel鈥檚 Fox News Watch

Ernest Thompson, CAS/BA 鈥71
Playwright, Actor, Academy Award Winner

Cecilia Vega, SOC/BA 鈥99
Emmy Award-winning journalist; Correspondent,听60 Minutes

Charlie Wachtel, SOC/BA 鈥08
Co-Writer, BlacKkKlansman; Academy Award Winner

Kenneth Walsh, SOC/MA 鈥70
White House Correspondent, US News & World Report; Former president of the White House Correspondents鈥 Association; author听

Russell Williams II, SOC/BA 鈥74
Production Sound Mixer; two-time Academy Award Winner (first African 艾可直播 to win two Academy Awards in any category); Professor and Distinguished Artist in Residence, 艾可直播 University

Brian Wilson, SOC/MA 鈥97
Former Anchor and Reporter, Fox News

Trey Yingst, SOC/BA 鈥16
Chief Foreign Correspondent,听Fox News

Susan Zirinsky, SOC/BA 鈥74
President, See It Now Studios; Former President and Senior Executive Producer, CBS News; inspiration for Holly Hunter鈥檚 character in the film Broadcast News

^ deceased

Pongpol Adireksarn, SIS/MA 鈥66
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Kingdom of Thailand

Liliana Ayalde, SIS/BA 鈥78
Former United States Ambassador to Brazil

Masrour Barzani, SIS/BA 鈥97
Prime Minister, Kurdistan Region

Justin Bibb, SPA/BA 鈥09
Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio

Julius Maada Bio, SIS/BA 鈥99, SIS/MIS 鈥01
President, Sierra Leone

Walter Boomer, Kogod/MS 鈥73
Marine Corps General and Commanding Officer of all Marines in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm

Muriel Bowser, SPA/MPP 鈥00
Mayor, Washington, DC

Terrence Boyle, WCL/JD 鈥70
Former Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Julia Brownley, Kogod/MBA 鈥79
US Representative for California鈥檚 26th Congressional District

Chaturon Chaisang, CAS/MA 鈥90
Former Minister of Justice, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Education, Thailand

Allen Michael Chastanet, CAS/MA 鈥90
Former Prime Minister, Saint Lucia

Sam Cho, SIS/BA 鈥13
Commission President, Port of Seattle;听听Director of Strategic Initiatives,听Office of the Mayor, City of Seattle, Washington听

John B. Craig, SIS/BA 鈥67
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism under President George W. Bush, Former United States Ambassador to Oman

Arturo Cruz, Jr., SIS/BA 鈥74
Former Ambassador of Nicaragua to the United States

Amy Dacey, SPA/MA 鈥95
Executive Director, AU鈥檚 Sine Institute of Policy & Politics; Former CEO, Democratic National Committee

Cari Dominguez, SIS/BA 鈥71,鈥 SIS/MA 鈥77
12th Chair of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Kenneth Duberstein, SPA/MA 鈥66^
White House Chief of Staff under President Ronald Reagan

David Dunn, SIS/MA 鈥74
Former United States Ambassador to Togo and Zambia

Iv谩n Duque M谩rquez, WCL/LLM 鈥04
Former President of Colombia

Norm Early, SPA/BA 鈥67^听
Colorado鈥檚 First Black District Attorney

Adam Ebbin, SPA/BA 鈥85
First Openly Gay State Senator (Virginia)听

Murat Salim Esenli, SPA/BA 鈥84
Ambassador from Turkey to Italy, Former Ambassador from Turkey to China

Eileen Filler-Corn, WCL/JD 鈥93
56th (and first woman) Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates

Arthur Flemming, SPA/MA 鈥28^
Former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, Kogod/MA 鈥02
Former Prime Minister, Guinea

Quentin Fulks, SPA/MA 鈥15听
Principal Deputy Campaign Manager Biden/ Harris 2024

Marc Ginsberg, SPA/BA 鈥73
Former United States Ambassador to Morocco

Christopher 鈥℅oldthwait, SIS/BA 鈥71
Former United States Ambassador to Chad

Reno Harnish, SIS/MA 鈥75
Former United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan

Shammara Henderson, CAS/BA 鈥04听
Judge, New Mexico Court of Appeals;听first African 艾可直播 woman to serve on New Mexico's Court of Appeals

Claude Hilton, WCL/JD 鈥66
Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Lawrence Hogan Sr., SOC/MA 鈥66^
Former US Representative for Maryland鈥檚 5th Congressional District

Yumi Hogan, CAS/MFA 鈥10
Former First Lady of Maryland

Cameron Hume, WCL/JD 鈥75
Former United States Ambassador to Algeria, South Africa, and Indonesia

Hubert Horatio 鈥淪kip鈥 Humphrey III, SPA/BA 鈥65
Former politician, son of United States Vice President Hubert Humphrey

Herman Jay Cohen, SIS/MA 鈥62
Former United States Ambassador to Gambia and Senegal, Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

Petra Kelly, SIS/BA 鈥70^
Founder, Germany鈥檚 Green Party

Sheik听Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, SPA/BA 鈥92
Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Bahrain

John Albert Knebel, WCL/JD 鈥65
United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Gerald Ford

Koko Kondo (born Tanimoto), CAS/BA 鈥69
Prominent atomic bomb survivor (Hiroshima), international peace activist

Patricia Laverley, SIS/BA 鈥93, SPA/MPA听鈥03
Deputy Minister of Finance,听Republic of Sierra Leone

The Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee, SOC/BA 鈥73, WCL/JD 鈥76, WCL/Hon. LLD 鈥03听
Judge, US District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia (Retired)听

Lori Lightfoot, WSP听鈥83
Former Mayor of Chicago; First LGBTQ+ Black woman elected mayor of a major US city

Nizar Bin Obaid Madani, SIS/MA 鈥71, SIS/PhD 鈥77
Former Deputy Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Juan Mari Bras, WCL/JD 鈥54^
Founder, Puerto Rican Socialist Party

Betsy Markey, SPA/MA 鈥83
Former Executive Director, Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade; Former US Representative, Colorado鈥檚 4th Congressional District; Former Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, US Department of Homeland Security

Sarah McBride, SPA/BA 鈥13
First Openly Transgender State Senator (Delaware)

A. Donald McEachin, SPA/BS 鈥82鈥ㄢ╚
US Representative for Virginia鈥檚 4th Congressional District

James McGovern, CAS/BA 鈥81, SPA/MPA 鈥84
US Representative for Massachusetts鈥櫶2nd Congressional District

Keith Mitchell, CAS/PhD 鈥80
Former Prime Minister, Grenada

Connie Morella, CAS/MA 鈥67
Former United States Ambassador to the OECD, Former US Representative for Maryland鈥檚 8th Congressional District

Jennifer Morgan, SIS/MA 鈥92
Germany鈥檚 first Special Envoy for International Climate Action

Dambisa Moyo, CAS/BS 鈥91, Kogod/MBA 鈥92, Hon. DHL 鈥22听
Economist; Author; Member, House of Lords

Samuel Lewis Navarro, Kogod/MBA 鈥81
Former First Vice President and Foreign Minister, Panama

Ron Nessen, CAS/BA 鈥59
White House Press Secretary under President Gerald Ford

Vincent Obsitnik, Kogod/MBA 鈥69
Former United States Ambassador to Slovakia

Alice Paul, WCL/LLM 鈥27,鈥ㄌ齈hD 鈥28^
Feminist, Author of the Equal Rights Amendment

Joan Plaisted, SIS/BA 鈥67, SIS/MA听鈥69
Former United States Ambassador to Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of Kiribati; Former Senior Advisor to the US Ambassador to the United Nations

Stacey Plaskett, WCL/JD 鈥94
Delegate to the House of Representatives from the US Virgin Islands鈥 at-large district

Sharon Prost, WCL/JD 鈥79
Former Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Paul Ryan, WSP 鈥91听
Former Speaker, US House of Representatives

Omar Samad, SOC/BA 鈥90
Former Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive of Afghanistan; Former Afghan Ambassador to Canada, then France;听Former CNN analyst

Nicholas Sarwark, WCL/JD 鈥08
Former Chairman, US Libertarian Party

Donna Shalala, WSP 鈥61
18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services; Former President, University of Miami; Former US Representative for Florida's 27th Congressional District

Warren Silver, WCL/JD 鈥73
Former State Supreme Court Justice, Maine

Julianne Smith, SIS/MA 鈥95听
US听Representative to NATO

Sean Spicer, WSP 鈥92
Former White House Press Secretary

Haley Stevens, SPA/BA 鈥05, CAS/MA 鈥07
US Representative for Michigan's 11th Congressional District

Paul Strauss, SPA/BA 鈥86, WCL/JD 鈥93
Shadow Senator from the District of Columbia

Kantathi Suphamongkhon, SIS/MA 鈥78
Former Foreign Minister and听Member of Parliament, Kingdom of Thailand

Clyde Taylor, SIS/MA 鈥61
Former Executive Director of the Una Chapman Cox Foundation; former US Ambassador to Costa Rica; former听US Ambassador to Paraguay

Lawrence Palmer Taylor, CAS/MA 鈥69
Former United States Ambassador to Estonia

Desson Thomson, SOC/BA 鈥80
White House Speechwriter for President Barack Obama

Vaishali Udupa, WCL/JD 鈥00
Commissioner for Patents, United States Patent and Trademark Office

Richard Verma, WCL/JD 鈥93
Former United States Ambassador to India

Reggie Walton, WCL/JD 鈥74
Senior Judge, US District Court for the District of Columbia

Susan听Wild, SPA/BA 鈥78
US Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District

Dessima Williams, SIS/MA 鈥85
President of the Senate of Grenada, Former Ambassador to the United Nations听from Grenada

Curtin Winsor, Jr., SIS/MA 鈥64, SIS/PhD 鈥71
Former United States Ambassador to Costa Rica

Yiaway Yeh, SPA/BA 鈥00
Former City Councilmember and Mayor, Palo Alto, California听

^ deceased

Mark Bergel, CAS/MS听鈥87, CAS/PhD听鈥96
Co-Founder, The Shared Humanity Project; Founder, A Wider Circle

Mark Bucher, SPA/BA 鈥90
Founder, Feed the Fridge and We Care, Inc.听

Ram贸n Cruz, SIS/BA 鈥98
President, Sierra Club

Valerie Guarnieri, SIS/MA听鈥96
Deputy Executive Director for Programme and Policy Development, United Nations World Food Programme

Dan Mathews, CAS/BA 鈥85听
Former Senior Vice President, PETA; Author

Rachel Micah-Jones, WCL/JD 鈥03
Founder and Executive Director, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante Inc.

Janethe Pe帽a, SIS/BA听鈥02听
Founder, Executive Director, and CEO, DC Doors

John Prendergast, SIS/MA 鈥90听
Founding Director,听The ENOUGH Project;听Co-founder,听The Sentry;听Former Director for African Affairs, The National Security Council

Wendy Young, WCL/JD 鈥88, SIS/MA 鈥89
President, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)

David Aldridge, SOC/BA 鈥87
Editor, The Athletic; Former Sportscaster and Columnist, TNT

Nur Ali, SIS/BA 鈥98
Race Car Driver, ARCA Racing Series

Julie Andreeff Jensen, SPA/BA 鈥95, WCL/JD 鈥02
Founder and Co-CEO, Jasper Advisors; Former Senior Vice President for External Engagement and Communications, Washington Commanders

Gabriella Cs茅pe, Kogod/BSBA 鈥96
Swimmer, 1988 and 1992 Olympics

Andy Dolich, SPA/BA 鈥69
President, Dolich Consulting; COO, Fan Controlled Football League; Former COO, San Francisco 49ers; Former President and COO, Golden State Warriors; Former Executive Vice President, Oakland Athletics

Jamie Erdahl, SOC/BA 鈥11
Reporter, NFL Network and CBS Sports

Avram Glazer, WCL/JD 鈥85
Executive Co-Chairman, Manchester United Football Club; Owner, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Bryan Glazer, SOC/BA 鈥86
Owner and Co-Chairman, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Darcie听Glazer听Kassewitz, CAS/BA 鈥90
Owner and President, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Foundation and Glazer Vision Foundation

Joel Glazer, SPA/BA 鈥89
Owner and Co-Chairman, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Josh Glenn, SIS/BA 鈥08
Professional Wrestler, NCAA Champion, Three-Time All-艾可直播

Steven Goldstein, Kogod/BSBA 鈥93
Race Car Driver, Formula 2000 Champion

Frank Herzog, SPA/BA 鈥72
Voice of the Washington Redskins, 1979鈥2004

Sunny Hobbs, SIS/BA 鈥92
Professional Race Car Driver

Frederik Hviid, CAS/BA 鈥97
Swimmer, 1996 and 2000 Olympics

Andre Ingram, CAS/BA 鈥07
Professional Basketball Player, NBA G League; Point Guard, Los Angeles Lakers

Avery John, Kogod/BSBA 鈥98
Former Professional Soccer Player

Kurt Kuykendall, SPA/BS 鈥74
Former Professional Soccer Player;听subject of the movie For the Glory

Debra Lerner Cohen, CAS/BA 鈥77
Principal Owner, Washington Nationals

Sergio L贸pez Mir贸, CAS/BS 鈥92
Bronze Medalist, Swimming, 1988 Olympics

Mark Murphy, Kogod/MBA 鈥83
President and CEO, Green Bay Packers; Former Safety, Washington Redskins

Obaahemaa (Ohemaa) Nyanin, SOC-SIS/BA 鈥09, SPA/MS 鈥09
General Manager, WNBA's Golden State Valkyries

Penny Vinik, SIS/BA 鈥84
Co-Owner, Tampa Bay Lightning

Kermit Washington, CAS/BA 鈥73
Former Professional Basketball Player; First-Round Draft Choice of the Los Angeles Lakers, 1973

Caylee Watson, SPA/BA 鈥17
Swimmer, 2016 Summer Olympics

Ron Weber, SPA/BA 鈥54, SPA/MA 鈥64
Original Voice of the Washington Capitals, 1974-1997; Hockey Hall of Fame, Broadcasters' Wing Honoree

Bram Weinstein, SOC/BA 鈥95
Voice of The Washington Commanders

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