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Muriel Bowser, SPA/MPP ’00, Mayor of Washington, DC
Sarah McBride, SPA/BA ’13, First Openly Trans State Senator
David Gregory, SIS/BA ’91, CNN Political Analyst
CNN Anchor Alisyn Camerota, SOC/BA ’88
Dr. Edmund Wyatt Gordon, SPA/MA ’50, co-architect of the Federal Head Start Program
Former First Lady of Maryland, Yumi Hogan, CAS/MFA ’10
Judge Judy Sheindlin, SPA/BA ’63
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 ’69
Novelist
Lonnie Bunch, CAS/BA ’74, CAS/MA ’76
14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
John Fahey, CAS/BA ’62^
Musician
Dominic Giampaolo, CAS/BS ’91
Software Engineer, Developer of the Be File System
Irene Glowinski, CAS/BS ’75
Former Deputy Director, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Disease, NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Edmund Gordon, SPA/MA ’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 ’63
Sixth President, Bates College
Monica Jeffries Hazangeles, CAS/MA ’96
President and CEO, Strathmore
Cornelius Kerwin, SPA/BA ’71
14th President of American University
Dr. Carol Leary, CAS/PhD ’88
President Emerita, Bay Path University
Carmen Maria Machado, CAS/BA ’07
Finalist for the National Book Award; Author, Her Body and Other Parties
Dambisa Moyo, CAS/BS ’91, Kogod/MBA ’92
Economist; Author; Member, House of Lords
Brittany Packnett Cunningham, SOE/MAT ’09
Activist, Educator, Writer, Leader
Becca Peixotto, CAS/MA ’13, CAS/PhD ’17
Archaeologist
Lara Prescott, SPA/BA ’04
Author of New York Times bestseller The Secrets We Kept
Margo Seibert, SIS/BA ’05
Drama Desk Award-nominated Actress; the original Adrian in Broadway's Rocky the Musical
Jeff Sine, SIS/BA ’76
Co-Founder and Partner, Raine; Broadway Producer; three-time Tony Award winner
Molly Smith, CAS/MA ’76
Former Artistic Director, Arena Stage
Dana Thomas, SOC/BA ’88
Author of New York Times bestseller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
John Wineglass, CAS/BA ’94
Emmy Award-winning composer
Tanekeya Word, CAS/MA ’11
Visual Artist
^ deceased
Facundo Bacardi, Kogod/BSBA ’90
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Bacardi Limited
Mark Bucher, SPA/BA ’90
Co-Founder, Medium Rare Steak Frites
Michael Chasen, CAS/BS ’93
Co-Founder and Former CEO, Blackboard Inc.; Founder and CEO, Class
Mong-Yong Chung, Kogod/MBA ’91
Chairman, Hyundai Sungwoo Holdings
Richard Clark, Kogod/MBA ’70
Former President and CEO, Merck & Co.
Gary Cohn, Kogod/BSBA ’82
Vice Chairman, IBM
Francesco Vanni d’Archirafi, Kogod/BS ’81
Chairman, Euroclear Group
Melissa Di Donato, Kogod/MBA '96
CEO, Kyriba
Dean Factor, Kogod/BSBA ’87
CEO and Co-Founder, Smashbox Cosmetics and Smashbox Studios
Marco Gobbetti, Kogod/BSBA ’81
CEO, Salvatore Ferragamo; Former CEO, Burberry
Victoria Harker, Kogod/MBA ’90
Former Executive Vice President and CFO, TEGNA Inc.
Wilbert Hopper, CAS/BS ’56^
Former President and CEO, Petro-Canada
Jesse Itzler, SPA/BA ’90
Entrepreneur, Author, Owner of the Atlanta Hawks
Robert Kogod, Kogod/BS ’62
Former Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Charles E. Smith companies
Almar Latour, SOC/MA ’96
CEO, Dow Jones
Dambisa Moyo, CAS/BS ’91, Kogod/MBA ’92, Hon. DHL ’22
Economist; Author; Member, House of Lords
Nicole Nason, SPA/BA ’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 ’80
Founder, iDiversicons
Jeff Perkins, SPA/BA ’96
Chief Marketing Officer, Greenlight Guru
Michael Santomassimo, Kogod/BS ’96
Chief Financial Officer, Wells Fargo
David Steward II, Kogod/BS ’98
CEO, Polarity; CEO, Lion Forge Animation
Gary Veloric, Kogod/BS ’82
Founder, The Red Stripe Plane Group
Cheong Ee Wee, Kogod/BS ’77
CEO, United Overseas Bank
^ deceased
Caroline Aaron, CAS/BA ’74
Actress and Producer; Shirley Maisel in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Sean Astin, SPA/MPAP ’24
Actor and Mental Health Advocate
Max Brooks, SOC/MA ’97
Author and Actor
Patrick Butler, SOC/MA ’96
President and CEO, America’s Public Television Stations (APTS)
Alisyn Camerota, SOC/BA ’88
Anchor/Correspondent, CNN; Author
Neil Cavuto, SOC/MA ’82
Fox News Commentator, Author of Your Money or Your Life
Elizabeth Chomko, CAS/BA ’04
Actor, Director, Playwright, Screenwriter
Susan Davis, CAS/BA ’01
Congressional Correspondent, NPR; Co-host, NPR Politics Podcast
Meg DeLoatch, CAS/BA ’90
Former Executive Producer, CBS’s The Neighborhood
Patricia de Stacy Harrison, CAS/BA ’68
President and CEO, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Bob Edwards, SOC/MA ’72^
First Host of NPR’s Morning Edition, Former Host of The Bob Edwards Show, Former Host of NPR’s All Things Considered, Peabody Award winner
Richard Ernest Thompson, CAS/BA ’71
Playwright, On Golden Pond; Academy Award Winner
Hallie Eisenberg, SPA/BA ’14
Actress
Darryl Frank, SOC/MA ’91
Co-President and Executive Producer, Amblin Television; Former Co-head, Dreamworks Television
Pauline Frederick, BA ’30, MA^
Pioneering woman in American 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 ’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 Gertler, WCL/JD ’90
Executive Chairman and CEO, US News and World Report
David Gregory, SIS/BA ’91
CNN Political Analyst, Former moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, Former Chief White House Correspondent, NBC News
Goldie Hawn, att ’63-64, HD ’02
Academy Award-winning Actress
Clark Howard, SPA/BA ’76
Host of The Clark Howard Show, Author
Star Jones, SPA/BA ’83
Television Personality, Lawyer, Journalist, Fashion Designer, Author, and Women’s and Diversity Advocate
Barry Josephson, SPA/BA ’78
Film Producer (Enchanted, Ladykillers, Like Mike, and FOX TV’s Bones), Former Music Manager, three-time Oscar Nominee
Tom Karsch, SPA/BA ’80
Former Executive Vice President and General Manager, Turner Classic Movies
Pam Kaufman, SOC/BA ’85
President and CEO of International Markets, Global Consumer Products & Experiences, Paramount Global; Former President, ViacomCBS Consumer Products
Florence King, CAS/BA ’57^
Writer for The National Review and best-selling author
Rick Leventhal, SOC/BA ’86
Former Senior Correspondent, Fox News
Barry Levinson, SOC/BA ’67
Director, Film Producer, and Screenwriter; Winner of several Emmys and an Academy Award
Louis Lomax, CAS/MA ’44^
First African American Television Journalist; Author
Barry McCaffrey, SPA/MA ’71
NBC News and MSNBC Military Analyst, Drug Czar under President Bill Clinton, retired US Army General
Ayman Mohyeldin, SIS/BA ’00,
SIS/MA ’01
Journalist, NBC News and MSNBC; Host, Ayman; Former anchor, Ayman Mohyeldin Reports
Robert Morton, SOC/BA ’75
Former Producer, Late Night with David Letterman; Emmy Award Winner
Nancy Meyers, SOC/BA ’70
Film Writer and Director (The Parent Trap, It’s Complicated, Something’s Gotta Give, What Women Want, Saving Private Ryan, and The Intern)
Sophia Nelson, WCL/JD ’94
Author, Journalist, CNN Pundit, USA TODAY contributor; Host of “One America” podcast
Ed O’Keefe, SPA/BA ’05
Senior White House and Political Correspondent, CBS News; Former congressional reporter, The Washington Post
Mike O’Meara, SOC/BA ’82
Host, The Mike O’Meara Show, Former Co-Host, Don and Mike Show
Jennifer Palmieri, SPA/BA ’88
Co-Host/Producer Emmy-Nominated SHOWTIME's The Circus; New York Times #1 Best-Selling Author; Former White House Communications Director
Tara Palmeri, SOC/BA ’08
Senior Political Correspondent for subscription news platform Puck
Nicole Petallides, SOC/BA ’93
Anchor, TD Ameritrade Network; Former Anchor, FOX Business Network
Giuliana Rancic, SOC/MA ’97
Celebrity News Personality, E! Networks; Daytime Emmy Award winner
Kathy Reichs, CAS/BA ’70
Author (Bare Bones, Déjà Dead); Writer/Producer, FOX-TV’s Bones
Janet Rodriguez, SOC/BA ’06
Internal Communications Manager, WhatsApp; Former Fellow, AU's Sine Institute of Policy and Politics
Benjamin Salisbury, SOC/BA ’03
Actor, The Nanny
Suzanne Scott, SPA/BA ’88
CEO, Fox News
Willard Scott, CAS/BA ’55^
Television Personality, The Today Show; Original Creator and Potrayor of Ronald McDonald
Steve Scully, SOC/BA ’82
Host, Sirius XM's The Briefing with Steve Scully; Former Host, Political Editor, Senior Producer, C-SPAN's Washington Journal
Tom Shales, SOC/BA ’67^
Former TV critic, The Washington Post; 1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Criticism
Judy Sheindlin, SPA/BA ’63
Television Court Show Judge, Judge Judy
Cal Thomas, CAS/BS ’77
Former Panelist, Fox News Channel’s Fox News Watch
Ernest Thompson, CAS/BA ’71
Playwright, Actor, Academy Award Winner
Cecilia Vega, SOC/BA ’99
Emmy Award-winning journalist; Correspondent, 60 Minutes
Charlie Wachtel, SOC/BA ’08
Co-Writer, BlacKkKlansman; Academy Award Winner
Kenneth Walsh, SOC/MA ’70
White House Correspondent, US News & World Report; Former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association; author
Russell Williams II, SOC/BA ’74
Production Sound Mixer; two-time Academy Award Winner (first African American to win two Academy Awards in any category); Professor and Distinguished Artist in Residence, American University
Brian Wilson, SOC/MA ’97
Former Anchor and Reporter, Fox News
Trey Yingst, SOC/BA ’16
Chief Foreign Correspondent, Fox News
Susan Zirinsky, SOC/BA ’74
President, See It Now Studios; Former President and Senior Executive Producer, CBS News; inspiration for Holly Hunter’s character in the film Broadcast News
^ deceased
Pongpol Adireksarn, SIS/MA ’66
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Kingdom of Thailand
Liliana Ayalde, SIS/BA ’78
Former United States Ambassador to Brazil
Masrour Barzani, SIS/BA ’97
Prime Minister, Kurdistan Region
Justin Bibb, SPA/BA ’09
Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
Julius Maada Bio, SIS/BA ’99, SIS/MIS ’01
President, Sierra Leone
Walter Boomer, Kogod/MS ’73
Marine Corps General and Commanding Officer of all Marines in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm
Muriel Bowser, SPA/MPP ’00
Mayor, Washington, DC
Terrence Boyle, WCL/JD ’70
Former Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
Julia Brownley, Kogod/MBA ’79
US Representative for California’s 26th Congressional District
Chaturon Chaisang, CAS/MA ’90
Former Minister of Justice, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Education, Thailand
Allen Michael Chastanet, CAS/MA ’90
Former Prime Minister, Saint Lucia
Sam Cho, SIS/BA ’13
Commission President, Port of Seattle; Director of Strategic Initiatives, Office of the Mayor, City of Seattle, Washington
John B. Craig, SIS/BA ’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 ’74
Former Ambassador of Nicaragua to the United States
Amy Dacey, SPA/MA ’95
Executive Director, AU’s Sine Institute of Policy & Politics; Former CEO, Democratic National Committee
Cari Dominguez, SIS/BA ’71,
SIS/MA ’77
12th Chair of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Kenneth Duberstein, SPA/MA ’66^
White House Chief of Staff under President Ronald Reagan
David Dunn, SIS/MA ’74
Former United States Ambassador to Togo and Zambia
Iván Duque Márquez, WCL/LLM ’04
Former President of Colombia
Norm Early, SPA/BA ’67^
Colorado’s First Black District Attorney
Adam Ebbin, SPA/BA ’85
First Openly Gay State Senator (Virginia)
Murat Salim Esenli, SPA/BA ’84
Ambassador from Turkey to Italy, Former Ambassador from Turkey to China
Eileen Filler-Corn, WCL/JD ’93
56th (and first woman) Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates
Arthur Flemming, SPA/MA ’28^
Former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, Kogod/MA ’02
Former Prime Minister, Guinea
Quentin Fulks, SPA/MA ’15
Principal Deputy Campaign Manager Biden/ Harris 2024
Marc Ginsberg, SPA/BA ’73
Former United States Ambassador to Morocco
Christopher
Goldthwait, SIS/BA ’71
Former United States Ambassador to Chad
Reno Harnish, SIS/MA ’75
Former United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan
Shammara Henderson, CAS/BA ’04
Judge, New Mexico Court of Appeals; first African American woman to serve on New Mexico's Court of Appeals
Claude Hilton, WCL/JD ’66
Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Lawrence Hogan Sr., SOC/MA ’66^
Former US Representative for Maryland’s 5th Congressional District
Yumi Hogan, CAS/MFA ’10
Former First Lady of Maryland
Cameron Hume, WCL/JD ’75
Former United States Ambassador to Algeria, South Africa, and Indonesia
Hubert Horatio “Skip” Humphrey III, SPA/BA ’65
Former politician, son of United States Vice President Hubert Humphrey
Herman Jay Cohen, SIS/MA ’62
Former United States Ambassador to Gambia and Senegal, Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
Petra Kelly, SIS/BA ’70^
Founder, Germany’s Green Party
Sheik Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, SPA/BA ’92
Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Bahrain
John Albert Knebel, WCL/JD ’65
United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Gerald Ford
Koko Kondo (born Tanimoto), CAS/BA ’69
Prominent atomic bomb survivor (Hiroshima), international peace activist
Patricia Laverley, SIS/BA ’93, SPA/MPA ’03
Deputy Minister of Finance, Republic of Sierra Leone
The Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee, SOC/BA ’73, WCL/JD ’76, WCL/Hon. LLD ’03
Judge, US District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia (Retired)
Lori Lightfoot, WSP ’83
Former Mayor of Chicago; First LGBTQ+ Black woman elected mayor of a major US city
Nizar Bin Obaid Madani, SIS/MA ’71, SIS/PhD ’77
Former Deputy Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Juan Mari Bras, WCL/JD ’54^
Founder, Puerto Rican Socialist Party
Betsy Markey, SPA/MA ’83
Former Executive Director, Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade; Former US Representative, Colorado’s 4th Congressional District; Former Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, US Department of Homeland Security
Sarah McBride, SPA/BA ’13
First Openly Transgender State Senator (Delaware)
A. Donald McEachin, SPA/BS ’82
^
US Representative for Virginia’s 4th Congressional District
James McGovern, CAS/BA ’81, SPA/MPA ’84
US Representative for Massachusetts’ 2nd Congressional District
Keith Mitchell, CAS/PhD ’80
Former Prime Minister, Grenada
Connie Morella, CAS/MA ’67
Former United States Ambassador to the OECD, Former US Representative for Maryland’s 8th Congressional District
Jennifer Morgan, SIS/MA ’92
Germany’s first Special Envoy for International Climate Action
Dambisa Moyo, CAS/BS ’91, Kogod/MBA ’92, Hon. DHL ’22
Economist; Author; Member, House of Lords
Samuel Lewis Navarro, Kogod/MBA ’81
Former First Vice President and Foreign Minister, Panama
Ron Nessen, CAS/BA ’59
White House Press Secretary under President Gerald Ford
Vincent Obsitnik, Kogod/MBA ’69
Former United States Ambassador to Slovakia
Alice Paul, WCL/LLM ’27,
PhD ’28^
Feminist, Author of the Equal Rights Amendment
Joan Plaisted, SIS/BA ’67, SIS/MA ’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 ’94
Delegate to the House of Representatives from the US Virgin Islands’ at-large district
Sharon Prost, WCL/JD ’79
Former Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Lily Qi, Kogod/MBA ’01
Delegate, Maryland General Assembly; First Chinese Immigrant Elected to Office in Maryland
Paul Ryan, WSP ’91
Former Speaker, US House of Representatives
Omar Samad, SOC/BA ’90
Former Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive of Afghanistan; Former Afghan Ambassador to Canada, then France; Former CNN analyst
Nicholas Sarwark, WCL/JD ’08
Former Chairman, US Libertarian Party
Donna Shalala, WSP ’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 ’73
Former State Supreme Court Justice, Maine
Julianne Smith, SIS/MA ’95
US Representative to NATO
Sean Spicer, WSP ’92
Former White House Press Secretary
Haley Stevens, SPA/BA ’05, CAS/MA ’07
US Representative for Michigan's 11th Congressional District
Paul Strauss, SPA/BA ’86, WCL/JD ’93
Shadow Senator from the District of Columbia
Kantathi Suphamongkhon, SIS/MA ’78
Former Foreign Minister and Member of Parliament, Kingdom of Thailand
Clyde Taylor, SIS/MA ’61
Former Executive Director of the Una Chapman Cox Foundation; former US Ambassador to Costa Rica; former US Ambassador to Paraguay
Lawrence Palmer Taylor, CAS/MA ’69
Former United States Ambassador to Estonia
Desson Thomson, SOC/BA ’80
White House Speechwriter for President Barack Obama
Vaishali Udupa, WCL/JD ’00
Commissioner for Patents, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Richard Verma, WCL/JD ’93
Former United States Ambassador to India
Reggie Walton, WCL/JD ’74
Senior Judge, US District Court for the District of Columbia
Susan Wild, SPA/BA ’78
US Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District
Dessima Williams, SIS/MA ’85
President of the Senate of Grenada, Former Ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada
Curtin Winsor, Jr., SIS/MA ’64, SIS/PhD ’71
Former United States Ambassador to Costa Rica
Yiaway Yeh, SPA/BA ’00
Former City Councilmember and Mayor, Palo Alto, California
^ deceased
Mark Bergel, CAS/MS ’87, CAS/PhD ’96
Co-Founder, The Shared Humanity Project; Founder, A Wider Circle
Mark Bucher, SPA/BA ’90
Founder, Feed the Fridge and We Care, Inc.
Ramón Cruz, SIS/BA ’98
President, Sierra Club
Valerie Guarnieri, SIS/MA ’96
Deputy Executive Director for Programme and Policy Development, United Nations World Food Programme
Dan Mathews, CAS/BA ’85
Former Senior Vice President, PETA; Author
Rachel Micah-Jones, WCL/JD ’03
Founder and Executive Director, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante Inc.
Janethe Peña, SIS/BA ’02
Founder, Executive Director, and CEO, DC Doors
John Prendergast, SIS/MA ’90
Founding Director, The ENOUGH Project; Co-founder, The Sentry; Former Director for African Affairs, The National Security Council
Wendy Young, WCL/JD ’88, SIS/MA ’89
President, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
David Aldridge, SOC/BA ’87
Editor, The Athletic; Former Sportscaster and Columnist, TNT
Nur Ali, SIS/BA ’98
Race Car Driver, ARCA Racing Series
Julie Andreeff Jensen, SPA/BA ’95, WCL/JD ’02
Founder and Co-CEO, Jasper Advisors; Former Senior Vice President for External Engagement and Communications, Washington Commanders
Gabriella Csépe, Kogod/BSBA ’96
Swimmer, 1988 and 1992 Olympics
Andy Dolich, SPA/BA ’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 ’11
Reporter, NFL Network and CBS Sports
Avram Glazer, WCL/JD ’85
Executive Co-Chairman, Manchester United Football Club; Owner, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Bryan Glazer, SOC/BA ’86
Owner and Co-Chairman, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Darcie Glazer Kassewitz, CAS/BA ’90
Owner and President, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Foundation and Glazer Vision Foundation
Joel Glazer, SPA/BA ’89
Owner and Co-Chairman, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Josh Glenn, SIS/BA ’08
Professional Wrestler, NCAA Champion, Three-Time All-American
Steven Goldstein, Kogod/BSBA ’93
Race Car Driver, Formula 2000 Champion
Frank Herzog, SPA/BA ’72
Voice of the Washington Redskins, 1979–2004
Sunny Hobbs, SIS/BA ’92
Professional Race Car Driver
Frederik Hviid, CAS/BA ’97
Swimmer, 1996 and 2000 Olympics
Andre Ingram, CAS/BA ’07
Professional Basketball Player, NBA G League; Point Guard, Los Angeles Lakers
Avery John, Kogod/BSBA ’98
Former Professional Soccer Player
Kurt Kuykendall, SPA/BS ’74
Former Professional Soccer Player; subject of the movie For the Glory
Debra Lerner Cohen, CAS/BA ’77
Principal Owner, Washington Nationals
Sergio López Miró, CAS/BS ’92
Bronze Medalist, Swimming, 1988 Olympics
Mark Murphy, Kogod/MBA ’83
President and CEO, Green Bay Packers; Former Safety, Washington Redskins
Obaahemaa (Ohemaa) Nyanin, SOC-SIS/BA ’09, SPA/MS ’09
General Manager, WNBA's Golden State Valkyries
Penny Vinik, SIS/BA ’84
Co-Owner, Tampa Bay Lightning
Kermit Washington, CAS/BA ’73
Former Professional Basketball Player; First-Round Draft Choice of the Los Angeles Lakers, 1973
Caylee Watson, SPA/BA ’17
Swimmer, 2016 Summer Olympics
Ron Weber, SPA/BA ’54, SPA/MA ’64
Original Voice of the Washington Capitals, 1974-1997; Hockey Hall of Fame, Broadcasters' Wing Honoree
Bram Weinstein, SOC/BA ’95
Voice of The Washington Commanders
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