List of Barnard College people

The following is a list of notable individuals associated with Barnard College through attendance as a student, service as a member of the faculty or staff, or award of the Barnard Medal of Distinction.

Notable alumnae

Academics and scientists

• Natalie Angier (1978), author, science journalist for the New York Times, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
• Jacqueline Barton (1974), Caltech chemist and MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant" winner
• Hazel Bishop (1929), chemist and inventor of innovative cosmetics
• Marian Chertow (1977), academic specializing in environmental resource management
• Frances Gardiner Davenport, historian^[1]
• Carol Dweck (1967), professor of psychology at Stanford University
• Firth Haring Fabend (1959), novelist and historian
• Jessica Garretson Finch (1893), author, suffragette, founding President of Finch College
• Ellen V. Futter (1971), President of Barnard College and the American Museum of Natural History
• Lynn Garafola (1968), dance historian
• Virginia Gildersleeve (1899), Dean of Barnard College and delegate to the charter conference of the United Nations in 1945
• Rebecca Goldstein (1972), philosopher, biographer, and novelist
• Monica Green medieval historian
• Maxine Greene (1938), educator, philosopher, activist; past president of the American Educational Research Association
• Patricia Greenspan (1966), professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park
• Evelyn Byrd Harrison (1941), classical scholar, archaeologist, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Evelyn Hu (1969), Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University
• Karla Jay (1968), pioneer of lesbian and gay studies
• Mirra Komarovsky (1926), sociologist; pioneer in the sociology of gender
• Mabel Lang (1939), archeologist and professor at Bryn Mawr College
• Janna Levin (1988), cosmologist
• Rita Gunther McGrath (1981), business book author; Professor at Columbia Business School
• Eileen McNamara (1974), professor of journalism at Brandeis University; formerly Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of the The Boston Globe
• Margaret Mead (1923), anthropologist
• Elsie Clews Parsons (1896), first woman elected President of the American Anthropological Association
• Helen Perlstein Pollard (1967), archaeologist, ethnologist, Mesoamericanist scholar, professor of anthropology at MSU
• Helen Ranney (1941), first woman to lead a university department of medicine in the U.S., be president of the Association of American Physicians, or serve as a Distinguished Physician of the Veterans Administration^[2]
• Ida Rolf (1916), biochemist, founder of Rolfing Structural Integration
• Ora Mendelsohn Rosen (1956), cell biology researcher
• Louise Rosenblatt (1920s), influential literary theorist and educator
• Anna Schwartz (1933), economist
• Vivian Sobchack (1961), cultural critic
• Maya Soetoro-Ng (1993), educator; half-sister of President Barack Obama
• Amy Sueyoshi (1993), historian and academic
• Merryl Tisch (1977), educator, Chancellor, New York State Board of Regents; wife of James S. Tisch, heir to the Loews Corporation
• Beatrice Warde (1920s), calligrapher, librarian, researcher on type matters and influence upon 20th century typography^[3]
• Irene J. Winter (1960), American art historian

Actresses and performers

• Sissy Biggers (1979), host of Ready.. Set... Cook! 1996-2000
• Clara Bryant (2007), actress
• Catherine de Castelbajac (1975), model and fashion journalist
• Jill Eikenberry (1968), actress
• Denise Faye (1996), director, choreographer, actress
• Greta Gerwig (2006), actress
• Jaime Gleicher (2010), reality star
• Lauren Graham (1988), actress, played Lorelai Gilmore on TV show Gilmore Girls
• Sprague Grayden (2000s), actress, played Judith Montgomery on Joan of Arcadia
• Alexandra Guarnaschelli (1991), celebrity chef at Butter Restaurant in New York City, television personality
• Shari Lewis (dropped out - 1950s), ventriloquist, puppeteer, television show host
• Peggy McCay (1949), actress
• Julie Mond (2000s), actress
• Cynthia Nixon (1988), actress, played Miranda Hobbes on TV show Sex and the City
• Chelsea Peretti (2000), actress, writer for TV show Parks and Recreation
• Lee Remick (dropped out - 1953), actress
• Ariane Rinehart (2015), actress, played Liesl on The Sound of Music Live!
• Joan Rivers (1954), star comedian, TV host
• Christy Carlson Romano (2000s), actress
• Frankie Shaw (2000s), actress
• Vinessa Shaw (dropped out - 1990s), actress, 40 Days and 40 Nights
• Sasha Soreff (1994), choreographer
• Zuzanna Szadkowski (2001), actress, played Dorota on TV show Gossip Girl
• Sophia Takal (2007), actress and director
• Twyla Tharp (1963), choreographer, dancer
• Sarah Thompson (1990s), television actress
• Donna Vivino (2000), actress and singer
• Jane Wyatt (1932), actress
• Franziska Boas (1923), dancer, percussionist and dance therapist

Architects

• Norma Merrick Sklarek (1950), first black woman to be licensed as an architect in the United States
• Christine Wang (1989), architect, curator and artist.

Artists

• Sarah Charlesworth (1969), photographer and conceptual artist
• Maud Morgan, modern artist
• Josephine Paddock, painter
• Jane Teller, sculptor
• Mierle Laderman Ukeles, performance artist

Athletes

• Stacey Borgman (1993), member of crew team for the United States at the 2004 Olympics^[4]
• Gloria Callen (1946), swimmer
• Abby Marshall (2014), chess player; won 2009 Denker Tournament of High School Champions
• Erinn Smart (2001), fencer for the United States at the 2004 Olympics silver medalist in team foil fencing at the Beijing 2008 Olympics
• Robin Wagner (1980), figure-skating coach

Businesswomen

• Susan Mary Alsop, Washingtonian socialite; wife of journalist Joseph Alsop
• Erica Bell (2007), co-founder of e-commerce website Hukkster
• Patricia Duff, founder of NGO The Common Good, ex-wife of Ronald Perelman
• Eileen Ford (1943), co-founder of Ford Models, one of the world's oldest and most influential modeling agencies
• Anjli Jain (2003), executive director of CampusEAI Consortium
• Liz Neumark (1977), founder and CEO of New York catering company Great Performances.^[5]
• Sheila Nevins (1960), president of HBO documentary films; winner of 27 Primetime Emmy Awards and 3 Peabody Awards
• Joan Whitney Payson, co-founder and majority of owner of the New York Mets^[6]
• Azita Raji (graduated 1983), investment banker, United States Ambassador to Sweden
• Helen Rogers Reid (1903), newspaper publisher, president of the New York Herald Tribune
• Alexis Stewart (1987), daughter of Martha Stewart; TV host and radio personality
• Martha Stewart (1964), business magnate, entrepreneur, homemaking advocate
• Elizabeth Wiatt (1967)
• Mita Nambiar (1996), business anilest, USG

Journalists

• Natalie Angier (1978), author and science writer for the New York Times; won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 1991
• Jami Bernard (1978), film critic for The New York Post and The New York Daily News, founder of Barncat Publishing Inc.; author whose books include a memoir of surviving breast cancer
• Fatima Bhutto, social activist, writer, and niece of Benazir Bhutto
• Suzanne Bilello (1977), author who with Rose Marie Arce (Barnard class of 1986) was a member of a Newsday team in 1992 that shared the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting^[7]
• Katherine Boo (1988), recipient of Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000 and the MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant"
• Mona Charen, nationally syndicated columnist, political analyst, and author
• Liz Clarke (1983), journalist for The Washington Post, co-host of The Tony Kornheiser Show
• Herawati Diah (1941), Indonesian journalist
• Deborah Feyerick (1987), American journalist and CNN correspondent
• Laura Flanders (1984), correspondent for Air America and host of "GritTV"
• Sylvana Foa (1967), first female news director of an American television network; first Spokeswoman for Secretary General of the United Nations
• Alexis Gelber (1974), former president of the Overseas Press Club
• Piri Halasz, correspondent Time Magazine and art critic
• Maria Hinojosa (1984), correspondent for CNN; NOW on PBS; host of NPR's Latino USA
• Cathy Horyn, fashion journalist, New York Times fashion critic
• Freda Kirchwey (1915), journalist, editor and publisher of The Nation
• Alex Kuczynski (1990), style reporter for The New York Times, daughter of Peruvian president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
• Courtney E. Martin (2002), American feminist author and editor of the feminist blog Feministing
• Judith Miller (1969), former correspondent for New York Times who reported on the story of Iraq's alleged WMD program; Aspen Strategy Group member
• Nonnie Moore (c. 1946), fashion editor at Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar and GQ.^[8]
• Mary Ellis Peltz, music critic, poet, and first chief editor of Opera News
• Anna Quindlen (1974), author and columnist for Newsweek who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992
• Atoosa Rubenstein (1993), founder of CosmoGirl and editor-in-chief of Seventeen; youngest ever editor of a teen magazine
• Susan Stamberg (1959), special correspondent, NPR's Morning Edition
• Jeannette Walls, gossip columnist for MSNBC; author of The Glass Castle
• Lis Wiehl (1983), legal analyst for Fox News
• Ellen Willis (1960s), essayist and pop music critic

Musicians, singers, and composers

• Laurie Anderson (1969), musician, NASA's first artist-in-residence
• Louise Post, lead singer and guitarist of alternative rock band Veruca Salt
• Roxanne Seeman (1975), songwriter
• Jeanine Tesori (1983), Broadway composer
• Suzanne Vega (1981), singer-songwriter, "Luka", "Tom's Diner"

Playwrights, screenwriters, and directors

• Jamie Babbit (1993), director But I'm a Cheerleader, Itty Bitty Titty Committee, television shows including Gilmore Girls, Alias (TV series), and Ugly Betty
• Helen Deutsch (1927), screenwriter, Lili, National Velvet, King Solomon's Mines
• Delia Ephron (1966), author, screenwriter, playwright, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, You've Got Mail
• Gina Gionfriddo (1991), playwright
• Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (1966), screenwriter
• Kait Kerrigan (2003), playwright
• Annie Leonard (1986), activist and director, The Story of Stuff
• Ntozake Shange (1970), playwright
• Linda Yellen (1969), Emmy Award-winning director, Northern Lights ; producer, Playing for Time

Political, social and judicial figures

• Akiko Yuge (1975), United Nations Development Programme Representative of Japan
• Ann Aldrich (1948), judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
• Grace Lee Boggs (1935), author and political activist
• Margot Botsford (1969), associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Claire C. Cecchi (1986), judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
• Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum (1952), United States District Court judge
• Ronnie Eldridge (1952), activist, businesswoman, politician, and television host
• Muriel Fox (1948), public relations executive who in 1966 co-founded the National Organization for Women and led the communications effort that introduced the modern women's movement to the media of the world
• Paula Franzese (1980), professor of real property law at Seton Hall Law School
• Helen Gahagan (1924), United States House of Representatives Congresswoman from California
• E. Susan Garsh (1969), associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court
• Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H. (1970), president and CEO of CARE USA and chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
• Nancy Gertner (1967), Judge on United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• Ellen F. Golden (1968), Director, Women's Business Center, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Wiscasset, Maine
• Cheryl Halpern, chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Patricia McMahon Hawkins (attended), United States Ambassador to Togo from 2008 to 2011
• Allegra "Happy" Haynes (1975), Denver politician who served on the Denver City Council
• Susan Herman (1968), President of the American Civil Liberties Union; Professor at Brooklyn Law School
• Jessie Wallace Hughan (1898, Phi Beta Kappa), United States Senate candidate, author, teacher, founder of Alpha Omicron Pi fraternity^[9]
• Miriam Hughes, United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia
• Marian Blank Horn (1965), judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims
• Mila Jasey (1972), member of the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 27th Legislative District
• Judith Kaye (1958), first woman in highest position in state judiciary, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
• Katherine Kazarian (2012), American politician and member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
• Claire R. Kelly (1987), judge on the United States Court of International Trade
• Jeane Kirkpatrick (1948), first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
• Wilma B. Liebman (1971), Chair, National Labor Relations Board
• Hope Portocarrero (1950s), first lady of Nicaragua, the wife of Anastasio Somoza Debayle
• Paula Reimers (1969), Rabbi, political activist for Palestinian rights, gender equity, and religious freedom
• Sheila Abdus-Salaam (1973), judge of the New York Court of Appeals
• Rosalyn Richter (1976), associate justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
• Jessica Stern (1985), American policy consultant on terrorism who served on the United States National Security Council under Bill Clinton
• Anna Diggs Taylor (1954), United States District Court judge
• Kang Tongbi (1907), daughter of Kang Youwei and political activist, member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
• Helene White (1975), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Constance H. Williams (1966), Pennsylvania state senator from 2001 to 2009; daughter of Leon Hess, founder of the Hess Corporation

Religious figures

• Sara Hurwitz (1999), first woman to serve in the Orthodox Jewish clergy

Spies

• Marion Davis Berdecio (1943), Accused Soviet spy in U.S. State Department, comrade of Coplon and Wovschin
• Judith Coplon (1943), Soviet spy in U.S. Justice Department whose convictions were overturned on technicalities
• Juliet Stuart Poyntz (1907), involved in intelligence activities for the Soviet OGPU; founding member of the Communist Party USA
• Flora Wovschin (1943), Soviet spy in U.S. State Department, stepdaughter of Columbia professor/Soviet spy Enos Wicher

Writers

• Léonie Adams (1923), poet
• Joan Abelove (1966), writer
• Mary Antin (1902), author of the immigrant experience
• Charlotte Armstrong (1925), writer
• Jami Bernard (1978), writer and film critic
• Fatima Bhutto (2004), Pakistani poet and writer
• Ann Brashares (1989), author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
• Sasha Cagen (1996), writer
• Hortense Calisher (1932), writer
• Diana Chang (1949), pioneering Asian-American novelist
• Cassandra Clare (1995), author of The Mortal Instruments
• Rachel Cohn (1989), author of Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and Gingerbread
• Nadine Jolie Courtney (2002), Bravo TV personality Newlyweds: The First Year and author of Beauty Confidential and Confessions of a Beauty Addict
• Elise Cowen (1956), poet of the Beat Generation
• Galaxy Craze (1993), novelist
• Susan Daitch (1977), short story writer
• Edwidge Danticat (1990), writer
• Thulani Davis (1970), novelist
• Tory Dent (1981), poet and HIV/AIDS activist
• Babette Deutsch (1917), author, poet, translator and critic
• Francine du Plessix Gray (1952), Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer
• Hallie Ephron (1969), novelist
• Cristina García (1983), author of Dreaming in Cuban
• Mary Gordon (1971), writer
• Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen (1970s), writer
• Monique Raphel High (1969), novelist
• Patricia Highsmith (1940), author of The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Anne Hollander (1952) historian of fashion
• Helen Hoyt (1900s), poet
• Zora Neale Hurston (1928), Harlem Renaissance writer
• Elizabeth Janeway (1935), author and critic
• Joyce Johnson (1955), writer
• June Jordan (1955), writer and activist
• Erica Jong (1963), writer
• Alexa Junge (1984), writer for The West Wing and Friends
• Joan Kahn (late 1930s), mystery editor and anthologist; also novelist and children's writer
• Lily Koppel (2003), author of The Red Leather Diary and The Astronaut Wives Club (book) and an in-progress novel, writer, New York Times
• Jhumpa Lahiri (1989), Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies
• Jane Leavy (1974), sports biographer
• Faith McNulty (1920s, attended one year), writer
• Daphne Merkin (1975), literary critic, essayist, and novelist
• Alice Duer Miller (1899), writer and advisory editor of The New Yorker
• Diana Muir (1975), writer and historian
• Alana Newhouse (1997), writer and editor of Tablet Magazine
• Alice Notley (1967), poet
• Sigrid Nunez (1972), novelist
• Iris Owens (1929-2008), novelist
• Edie Parker (1940s), author; first wife of Jack Kerouac
• Helena Percas de Ponseti (1940), writer, essayist, scholar, and professor
• Chelsea Peretti (2000), writer and comedian
• Marisha Pessl (2000), author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics
• Belva Plain (1939), writer
• Ariana Reines (2002), poet
• Lionel Shriver(1978), novelist and 2005 Orange Prize winner
• Dean Spade (1997), writer, activist, lawyer, Assistant Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law
• Joan Vollmer (1943), Beat poet, partner of William S. Burroughs
• Cecily Wong (1910), writer
• Julie Zeilinger (2015), blogger and feminist writer

Fictional alumnae

• In the 1992 Woody Allen film Husbands and Wives, Juliette Lewis' character, Rain, is a Barnard student.
• In the 2005 Sigrid Nunez novel The Last of Her Kind, heroines Georgette George and Ann Drayton meet in 1968 as freshmen roommates at Barnard.
• In the television series Mad Men, the character Rachel Menken is a Barnard graduate.
• In the 2015 film Mistress America, the lead character Tracy Fishko is a freshman at Barnard.

Notable faculty

• Nadia Abu El Haj, anthropologist
• Robert Antoni, Commonwealth Writers Prize–winning author
• Randall Balmer, author and historian of American religion
• Dave Bayer, mathematician; actor and math consultant for the film A Beautiful Mind; one of few holders of an Erdős-Bacon number
• Ruth Benedict, anthropologist
• Jenny Boylan, writer
• Frank Brady, leading figure in international chess
• Harriet Brooks, physicist
• Demetrios James Caraley, Editor of the Political Science Quarterly; President of the Academy of Political Science
• John Cheever (1956–1957), Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and short story writer
• Dennis Dalton (1969–2008), political scientist; renowned nonviolence proponent; scholar of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi^[10]
• Michael X. Delli Carpini (1987–2003), political scientist, Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
• Mortimer Lamson Earle, classicist
• Theodor Gaster
• Virginia Gildersleeve
• Katie Glasner, former Twyla Tharp dancer^[11]
• Mary Gordon, writer
• Elizabeth Hardwick, writer; co-founder of The New York Review of Books; wife of Robert Lowell ^[12]
• Ken Hechler, U.S. Congressman from West Virginia
• Rebecca Jordan-Young, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, author of Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences
• Charles Knapp, Ph.D., philologist and classical scholar
• Janna Levin, physicist
• David Macklovitch, musician
• Perry Mehrling, economic historian
• Gabriela Mistral, first Latin American Nobel Prize winner for Literature
• Samuel Alfred Mitchell, astronomer
• Raymond Moley (1923–1933), proponent and later critic of the New Deal
• Frederick Neuhouser, philosopher
• Sigrid Nunez, novelist
• Elaine Pagels (1970–1982), scholar of early and gnostic Christianity
• Alan F. Segal, ancient Judaism and origins of Christianity; author of Life after Death, and Paul the Convert
• Edmund Ware Sinnott, botanist
• Dolph Sweet, actor
• Elie Wiesel (1997–1999), Nobel Peace Prize–winning writer and activist
• Ashley Tuttle, former principal dancer at ABT and Tony nominated actress

Recipients of the Medal of Distinction

The Barnard Medal of Distinction is the College's highest honor.^[13]

1977

• Joan Mondale

1978

• Samuel R. Milbank
• Richard Rodgers
• Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger '14

1979

• Adelyn Dohme Breeskin
• Helen Gahagan Douglas '24
• Eleanor Thomas Elliott '48
• William Am Marstellar
• Toni Morrison
• Francis T.P. Plimpton

1980

• Dorothy Height
• Julius S. Held
• Mary Dublin Keyserling '3
• Margaret Mahler
• Alan Pifer
• Henriette H. Swope '25

1981

• Robert L. Hoguet
• Elizabeth Janeway '35
• Beverly Sills

1982

• Carol Bellamy
• Raymond J. Saulnier
• Twyla Tharp '63

1983

• Mario Cuomo
• Vernon Jordan, Jr.
• Mirra Komarovsky '26

1984

• Arthur Altschul
• Annette Kar Baxter '47 (posthumous)
• Joseph G. Brennan^[14]
• Anna Hill Johnstone '34

1985

• Marian Wright Edelman
• Sidney Dillon Ripley
• Elizabeth Man Sarcka '17^[15]

1986

• A. Bartlett Giamatti
• Frances Lehman Loeb^[16]
• Helen M. Ranney '41^[2]

1987

• Judith Kaye '58
• Sally Falk Moore '43
• Rev. James Parks Morton
• Ellen Stewart

1988

• Augusta Souza Kappner '66
• Ntozake Shange '70
• Maxine Singer

1989

• Joan Kaplan Davidson
• Eugene Lang
• Bernice Segal (posthumous)^[17]
• Lottie L. Taylor-Jones

1990

• Jacqueline Barton '74
• Robert L. Bernstein
• Jean Blackwell Hutson '35
• Julie V. Marsteller '69^[18]

1991

• Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum '50
• Tisa Chang '63
• Mamphele Ramphele delivered the 2002 Commencement address

1992

• Ingrith Johnson Deyrup-Olsen '40^[19]
• Fred W. Friendly
• Millicent Carey McIntosh
• Frank Stella

1993

• Arthur Ashe (posthumous)
• Elizabeth B. Davis '41
• Helene Lois Kaplan '53
• Bette Bao Lord
• Cyrus Vance

1994

• Walter Cronkite
• Ellen V. Futter '71
• Barbara Stoler Miller '62 (posthumous)^[20]
• Arthur Mitchell
• Sheila E. Widnall

1995

• Madeleine Albright
• Rosemary Park Anastos
• Derek Bok
• Sissela Bok

1996

• Rita R. Colwell
• Kitty Carlisle Hart
• Maya Lin
• Dame Anne Warburton

1997

• Sarah Brady
• Merce Cunningham
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1998

• Mary L. Good
• Joan Ganz Cooney
• David Aaron Kessler

1999

• Zoe Caldwell
• Abby Joseph Cohen
• Esther Dyson
• William T. Golden

2000

• Doris Kearns Goodwin delivered the 2000 Commencement address
• Hanna Holborn Gray
• Annie Leibovitz
• Kathie L. Olson

2001

• Morris Dees
• Susan Hendrickson
• Maxine Greene '38
• Bernice Johnson Reagon delivered the 2001 Commencement address
• Barbara Novak '50^[21]
• Alice Rivlin
• Harold E. Varmus

2003

• Susan Band Horwitz
• Judith Miller '69 delivered the Commencement address
• Martha Nussbaum

2004

• Sylvia Earle
• Louise Glück

2005

• Carla D. Hayden
• Amartya Sen

2006

• Linda Greenhouse
• Audra McDonald
• Francine du Plessix Gray '52

2007

• Joan Didion
• Nicholas D. Kristof
• Mary Patterson McPherson
• Muriel Petioni^[22]
• Anna Deavere Smith

2008

• Thelma C. Davidson Adair
• Michael Bloomberg delivered the 2008 Commencement address
• Billie Jean King
• David Remnick
• Judith Shapiro

2009

• Hillary Clinton delivered the 2009 Commencement address^[23]
• Kay Murray^[24]
• Indra Nooyi
• Irene J. Winter '60

2010

• Thelma Golden
• Olympia J. Snowe
• Meryl Streep delivered the 2010 Commencement address
• Shirley M. Tilghman

2011

• Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, delivered the 2011 Commencement address
• Sylvia Rhone
• Roberta Guaspari
• Jenny Holzer

2012

• Barack Obama, President of the United States, delivered the 2012 Commencement address
• Sally Chapman, Barnard Professor of Chemistry
• Helene D. Gayle '76, President and CEO of CARE, USA
• Evan Wolfson, founder and President of Freedom to Marry

2013

• Leymah Gbowee, recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, delivered the 2013 Commencement address
• Jimmie Briggs, founder of the Man Up campaign
• Elizabeth Diller, architect and designer of the High Line
• Lena Dunham, creator, director, writer and star of the HBO series Girls

2014 ^[25]

• Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation
• Mahzarin Banaji, social psychologist and professor of social ethics at Harvard University
• Ursula Burns, chair and chief executive officer of Xerox
• Patti Smith, acclaimed musician, poet, and artist

2015 ^[26]

• Samantha Power, academic and journalist
• Simi Linton, expert on disability and the arts ^[27]
• Nadia Lopez, principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy
• Diana Nyad, long-distance swimmer and author

References

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2. Helen M. Ranney
3. Beatrice Warde Collection, 1919–1970 Archived September 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
4. Barnard College: Alumna in Action
5. Liz Neumark
6. Ingham, John N. (1983). Biographical dictionary of American business leaders. Volume 4. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 1618. ISBN 0-313-21362-3. OCLC 8388468.
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8. Carmon, Irin. "Nonnie Moore, Legendary Men's Editor, Dead at 87", Women's Wear Daily, February 19, 2009. Retrieved February 25, 2009.
9. Jessie Wallace Hughan
10. D.G.Dalton Barnard Political Science
11. Barnard Dance
13. Past Speakers and Medalists
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15. http://www.richmondhillhistory.org/man.html
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19. http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/dec04/extras_olsen.html
20. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/20/obituaries/barbara-stoler-miller-professor-52.html
21. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol25/05/2505_Barnard_Symp_Novak.html
22. CUNY.edu
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24. http://www.law.columbia.edu/media_inquiries/news_events/2008/january2008/Murray_award
25. http://barnard.edu/news/planned-parenthood-president-cecile-richards-address-class-2014
26. https://barnard.edu/commencement/archives/2015
27. http://www.newmobility.com/2015/06/simi-linton-awarded-medal-of-distinction-from-barnard/

External links

• Past Speakers and Medalists