Columbia University,officially Columbia University in the City of New York,is a private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan,it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States.
Bella Abzug,nicknamed "Battling Bella",was an American lawyer,politician,social activist,and a leader in the women's movement. In 1971,Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem,Shirley Chisholm,and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus. She was a leading figure in what came to be known as ecofeminism.
Elisabeth A. Gotbaum is an American civil servant,politician and a former New York City public advocate. She was elected Public Advocate for New York City in 2001 and reelected in 2005. She was the third woman elected to a citywide post in NYC history. The other two were Carol Bellamy,who served as city council president from 1978 to 1985,and Elizabeth Holtzman,who served as comptroller from 1990 to 1993. Gotbaum is a Democrat and currently serves as Executive Director of Citizens Union.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve was an American academic,the long-time dean of Barnard College,co-founder of the International Federation of University Women,and the only woman delegated by United States to the April 1945 San Francisco United Nations Conference on International Organization,which negotiated the charter for and creation of the United Nations.
William Fitts Ryan was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a representative from New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1961 until his death from throat cancer in New York City in 1972. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights,Manhattan,New York City. SIPA offers Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in a range of fields,as well as the Executive MPA and PhD program in Sustainable Development.
Suzanne Maria Malveaux is an American broadcast journalist. After joining CNN from NBC News in 2002,she co-anchored the CNN international news program Around the World and editions of CNN Newsroom and also served as the network's White House correspondent and as primary substitute to Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room. She departed the network in 2023.
Ken Sunshine is an American public relations consultant,co-CEO and founder of Sunshine Sachs Consultants. He began his career in New York City politics,including serving as chief of staff for Mayor David Dinkins.
Pi Alpha Alpha is an international honor society for students of public administration. It was founded and is administered by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
Nadia Abu El-Haj is an American anthropologist at Barnard College and Columbia University.
Jennifer J. Raab is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Stem Cell Foundation,one of the world’s leading nonprofit stem cell organizations with a mission to accelerate cures for the major diseases of our time through stem cell research. Prior to her appointment in January 2024,she served as the 13th president of Hunter College of the City University of New York,where she transformed the largest college in the City University of New York system into its ‘crown jewel’and a model for public higher education nationwide. Raab was the longest serving President in the CUNY system,holding this position between June 2001 and June 2023. She was responsible for overseeing the functions of the college's more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools as well its affiliates such as the Hunter College High School,Hunter College Elementary School and Manhattan/Hunter Science High School.
The New York City mayoral election of 1977 occurred on Tuesday,November 8,1977. U.S. Representative Ed Koch defeated Secretary of State Mario Cuomo in both the Democratic Party primary and the general election,with Cuomo running on the Liberal Party ticket.
Alexis Gelber is a Goldsmith Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government for the Spring 2011 semester. She is an editorial consultant based in Washington,DC and New York,where she is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
Susan Bernofsky is an American translator of German-language literature and author. She is best known for bringing the Swiss writer Robert Walser to the attention of the English-speaking world,translating many of his books and writing his biography. She has also translated several books by Jenny Erpenbeck and Yoko Tawada. Her prizes for translation include the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize,the 2012 Calw Hermann Hesse Prize,the 2015 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize,the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize,and the 2015 Schlegel-Tieck Prize. She was also selected for a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014. In 2017 she won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for her translation of Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada. In 2018 she was awarded the MLA's Lois Roth Award for her translation of Go,Went,Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck. In 2024,Bernofsky was reported to be working on a translation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.
Rosemary O'Leary is Emerita Distinguished Professor at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and Emerita Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on public management,collaboration,conflict resolution,environmental and natural resources management,and public law.
Karine Jean-Pierre is a French-American political advisor who served as the White House press secretary from May 2022 to January 2025,and a senior advisor to President Joe Biden since October 2024. She is the first black person and the first openly LGBTQ person to serve in the position of White House press secretary. Previously,she served as the deputy press secretary to her predecessor Jen Psaki from 2021 to 2022 and as the chief of staff for U.S. Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris during the 2020 presidential campaign.
Jack Wayne Meek is University of La Verne Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at the College of Law and Public Service at the University of La Verne.,where he previously served as Director of Center Research for the College of Business and Public Management. He curruently offers and annual lecture for Public Service and Law Students at the University of La Verne.
Kathryn Newcomer is an American Political Scientist,author and professor of public policy and public administration. She was previously the director of the George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.
Arlene Stringer-Cuevas was an American politician,educator,and civil servant. She was a schoolteacher before serving on the New York City Council from 1976 to 1977. Stringer-Cuevas later worked for the New York City Human Resources Administration for 16 years until her retirement in 1994. She died during the COVID-19 pandemic due to complications of COVID-19.
