List of Skidmore College people

Here follows a list of some notable people associated with Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. It includes graduates, attendees, faculty, and presidents of the college.

Distinguished alumni

Arts and entertainment

• Kristina Anapau, actor, True Blood (Class of 2009)^[1]
• Glenda Arentzen, goldsmith and jeweler (Class of 1962)^[2]
• Mary Jane Auch, writer and illustrator of children's books (Class of 1960)^[3]
• Nathan Barr, Emmy-winning film and TV composer and musician (Class of 1995)^[4]
• Zazie Beetz, actor, Deadpool 2 and Atlanta (Class of 2013)^[5]
• Lake Bell, actor, Boston Legal and Childrens Hospital (attended)^[6]
• Molly Bernard, actor, Younger (Class of 2010)^[7]
• Jon Bernthal, actor, The Walking Dead and The Wolf of Wall Street (attended)^[8]
• Lucinda Bliss, artist (Class of 1988)^[9]
• Diane Burko, artist focusing on climate change (Class of 1966)^[10]
• Eddie Cahill, actor, Miracle and CSI: NY (attended)^[8]
• Ruth Sacks Caplin, screenwriter of Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (Class of 1941)^[11]
• Kyle Carey, singer and musician (Class of 2008)^[12]
• Lyn Chevli, underground cartoonist (Class of 1953)^[13]
• Sharon Church, metalsmith artist and jeweler (Class of 1970)^[14]
• Kathleen Collins, playwright, filmmaker, director, civil rights activist, and educator, Losing Ground (Class of 1963)^[15]
• Gladys Emerson Cook, artist (Class of 1921)^[16]
• Michael Counts, stage director and designer of immersive theater events (Class of 1993)^[17]
• Kelly Curtis, actor (Class of 1978)^[18]
• Betsy Damon, ecofeminist artist (Class of 1963)^[19]
• Evan Dando, musician with The Lemonheads (attended)^[20]
• Grace DeGennaro, visual artist (Class of 1978)^[21]
• Dorothy Dehner, painter and sculptor (Class of 1952)^[22]
• Pete Donnelly, musician with The Figgs, NRBQ, Soul Asylum, and Mike Viola & the Candybutchers (Class of 2017)^[23]
• Garrett "G. Love" Dutton, musician with G. Love & Special Sauce (attended)^[24]
• Courtney Fink, arts organizer (Class of 1994)^[25]
• Arline Fisch, artist and professor (Class of 1952)^[26]
• Judith Flanders, author and historian (Class of 1980)^[27]
• Chris Fleming, comedian and creator of the web series Gayle (Class of 2009)^[28]
• Zach Gage, video game designer, SpellTower, Really Bad Chess, Card of Darkness, Puzzmo (Class of 2007)^[29]
• Anthony Geraci, blues pianist and member of both Sugar Ray & the Bluetones and Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters.^[30]
• Laura Anne Gilman, author of fantasy novels (Class of 1989)^[31]
• Tawny Godin, former Miss America 1976 (attended)^[32]
• Holter Graham, actor and producer (Class of 1994)^[8]
• Mick Grøndahl, bassist with Jeff Buckley^[33]
• Dorothy Hafner, ceramicist and glass artist (Class of 1974)^[34]
• Margaret Halsey, author, With Malice Toward Some (Class of 1930)^[35]
• Paula Hayes, environmental artist (class of 1987)^[36]
• Justin Henry, actor, Kramer vs. Kramer and Sixteen Candles (Class of 1993)^[37]
• John Hoberg, screenwriter and producer, Better Off Ted, Black-ish, Elemental (Class of 1993)^[38]
• Elizabeth Hoffman Honness, author of children's mystery novels (Class of 1926)^[39]
• Scott Jacoby, record producer (Class of 1993)^[40]
• Julia Jacquette, artist (Class of 1986)^[41]
• Sara Juli, dancer and choreographer (Class of 2000)^[42]
• Ian Kahn, actor, Turn: Washington's Spies (Class of 1994)^[43]
• Scott Hamilton Kennedy, documentarian (Class of 1987)^[44]
• Rya Kihlstedt, actor, Dexter, Nashville (Class of 1991)^[45]
• Emily Lazar, audio mastering engineer (Class of 1993)^[46]
• Elizabeth LeCompte, co-founder and director of The Wooster Group, and a MacArthur Fellow (Class of 1966)^[47]
• Jardine Libaire, writer (Class of 1995)^[48]
• Sydney Magruder Washington, ballet dancer (Class of 2014)^[49]
• Lenore Malen, artist (Class of 1966)^[50]
• Evan Mast and Mike Stroud, musicians with Ratatat (Class of 2001)^[51][52]
• Courtney Mattison, sculptor and ocean advocate (Class of 2008)^[53]
• Molly McGrann, novelist and literary critic (Class of 1995)^[54]
• Will Menaker, political satirist and host of Chapo Trap House^[55]
• David Miner, television producer, 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, and The Tracy Morgan Show (Class of 1991)^[56]
• Brad Morris, actor and writer (Class of 1998)^[57]
• Jack Mulhern, actor, The Society and Mare of Easttown (Class of 2017)
• Peter Nichols, author (Class of 2007)^[58]
• Michael Nozik, film producer, Crossing Delancey, The Motorcycle Diaries, and Quiz Show (Class of 1976)^[59]
• Nelle Nugent, Broadway producer, Time Stands Still (Class of 1960)^[60]
• Julia Nunes, singer, songwriter, YouTube celebrity (Class of 2011)^[61]
• Ashley Peldon, actor, Guiding Light, Ghost World (Class of 2007)^[62]
• Courtney Peldon, actor, Home Improvement, Boston Public (Class of 2007)^[63]
• Pat Place, no wave musician with Bush Tetras and the Contortions (attended)^[64]
• Mary Marr "Polly" Platt, producer, production designer, screenwriter (attended)
• Kim Poor, artist (Class of 1977)^[65]
• Jason Reitman, filmmaker, Juno, Up in the Air, Saturday Night (attended)^[66]
• Ariana Richards, actor and painter, Jurassic Park (Class of 2002)^[67]
• Jane Roberts, author and poet (attended)^[68]
• Gloria Sachs, fashion designer (Class of 1947)^[69]
• Sybil Shearer, modern dance pioneer and writer (Class of 1934)^[70]
• Jason Shinder, poet and founder of the YMCA National Writer's Voice program (Class of 1978)^[71]
• Caroline Slade, social worker and author of early "social problem" novels (attended pre-1911)^[72]
• Micah Sloat, actor, Paranormal Activity (Class of 2004)^[73]
• Jane Teller, printmaker and sculptor (attended 1929)^[74]
• Barbara Tfank, fashion designer (Class of 1972)^[75]
• Robert Tracy, dancer, writer, and educator (Class of 1977)^[76]
• Leslie Ullman, poet (Class of 1969)^[77]
• Joan Wadleigh Curran, artist (Class of 1972)^[78]
• Matthew Wolff, graphic designer (Class of 2012)^[79]
• David Yoo, YA author and essayist (Class of 1996)^[80]
• Lila York, dancer and choreographer (Class of 1970)^[81]
• Michael Zegen, actor, Rescue Me, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Class of 2001)^[8]

Athletics

• Matt Hyson, professional wrestler whose stage name is Spike Dudley (Class of 1992)^[82]
• Carlie Irsay-Gordon, co-owner of the Indianapolis Colts (Class of 2005)^[83]
• Abby Peck, Olympic rower (Class of 1978)^[84]

Business and philanthropy

• Molly Baz, chef and cookbook author, Cook This Book and More Is More (Class of 2010)^[85]
• Barbara Bloom, senior vice president of CBS Daytime^[86]
• Cynthia Carroll, CEO of Anglo American, ranked 14th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in 2010 (Class of 1978)^[87]
• Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream (attended)^[88]
• Helen Corbitt, chef and cookbook author (Class of 1928)^[89]
• Louise Fili, graphic designer (Class of 1973)^[90]
• Thea Flaum, television producer best known as the creator of Sneak Previews (Class of 1960)^[91]
• Oskar Ibru, business magnate, Chairman of the Ibru Organization (class of 1981)^[92]
• Jono Pandolfi, ceramicist and dinnerware designer (Class of 1999)^[93]
• Rob Sands, executive chair of Constellation Brands (Class of 1981)^[94]
• Joseph Tacopina, attorney (Class of 1988)^[95]
• Wilma Stein Tisch, board member and philanthropist (Class of 1948)^[96]

Education and science

• I. Elaine Allen, survey statistician and biostatistician (Class of 1970)^[97]
• Wendy Benchley, marine conservationist (Class of 1963)^[98]
• Benjamin Bolger, sociology professor at the College of William & Mary (MA 2007)^[99]
• Leah Buechley, developer of the LilyPad Arduino toolkit for wearable electronics (Class of 1997)^[100]
• Sallie W. Chisholm, biological oceanographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Class of 1969)^[101]
• Céline Cousteau, environmental advocate and documentarian (Class of 1994)^[102]
• Daniel DiSalvo, political science professor (Class of 1998)^[103]
• Rear Admiral Karen Flaherty-Oxler, former Deputy Surgeon General of Navy Medicine (Class of 1974)^[104]
• Terry Fulmer, geriatrics researcher and president of The John A. Hartford Foundation (Class of 1976)^[105]
• Patricia Glibert, marine scientist and president of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (Class of 1974)^[106]
• Ruby Puryear Hearn, biophysicist and Senior Vice President Emerita of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Class of 1960)^[107]
• Heather Hurst, archaeologist and a MacArthur Fellow (Class of 1997)^[108]
• Fillia Makedon, computer scientist (Class of 1968)^[109]
• Jens David Ohlin, dean of Cornell Law School (Class of 1996)^[110]
• Hazel Stiebeling, nutritionist and early developer of "daily allowance" guidelines (Class of 1915)^[111]
• Amy Townsend-Small, director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Cincinnati (Class of 1998)^[112]
• Jessica Wahman, Emory University philosophy professor and author (Class of 1990)^[113]

Journalism

• Lise Bang-Jensen, journalist (Inside Albany) and New York policy analyst (Class of 1971)^[114]
• Arwa Damon, Middle East correspondent for CNN (Class of 1999)^[115]
• Cassandra Giraldo, photojournalist and documentarian (Class of 2011)^[116]
• Jane Gross, sportswriter, New York Times journalist, and author (Class of 1969)^[117]
• Juleyka Lantigua, journalist (The Atlantic, NPR) and podcast producer (Class of 1996)^[118]
• Grace Mirabella, author and former editor-in-chief of Vogue (Class of 1950)^[119]
• Cal Perry, correspondent for CNN based in the network's Beirut bureau (Class of 2001)^[120]
• Webster Tarpley, author, historian, conspiracy theorist (MA)^[121]

Politics and public affairs

• Nikki Beare, political and social activist, inductee to Florida Women's Hall of Fame (Class of 1980)^[122]
• Senator Joseph Bruno, New York State Senate Majority Leader (also received an honorary doctorate) (Class of 1952)^[123]
• Jennie Cave, first female mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (Class of 1923)^[124]
• Josh S. Cutler, Massachusetts politician (Class of 1994)^[125]
• Susan M. Elliott, diplomat and president of The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (Class of 1974)^[126]
• Sallie Fellows, New Hampshire politician (Class of 1974)^[127]
• J. Christopher Giancarlo, chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Class of 1981)^[128]
• Fred Guttenberg, gun-control activist (Class of 1988)^[129]
• Maxine Isaacs, political analyst (Class of 1969)^[130]
• Joseph Ben Kaifala, Sierra Leonean human rights activist (Class of 2008)^[131]
• Carolyn Konheim, environmental activist and cofounder of Citizens for Clean Air (Class of 1959)^[132]
• Maritza Rivera, Seattle city councilmember (Class of 1991)^[133]
• Helene Schneider, former mayor of Santa Barbara, California (Class of 1992)^[134]
• Kate Snyder, mayor of Portland, Maine (Class of 1992)^[135][136]
• Eleanor Weinstock, Florida politician (Class of 1950)^[137]
• Anne Wexler, political advisor and lobbyist (Class of 1951)^[138]
• Melissa Winter, chief of staff and senior advisor to Michelle Obama (Class of 1989)^[139]

Notable faculty

• Yacub Addy, Ghanaian drum master and composer^[140]
• April Bernard, English professor^[141]
• Robert Boyers, English professor and editor of literary journal Salmagundi^[142]
• Regis Brodie, art professor^[143]
• Greg Hrbek, English professor^[144]
• Heather Hurst, archaeologist, anthropology professor, and MacArthur Fellow^[145]
• Evan Mack, music professor^[146]
• Steven Millhauser, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist^[147]
• Daniel A. Nathan, American studies professor^[148]
• R. Parthasarathy, poet^[149]
• Pushkala Prasad, management professor^[150]
• Minita Sanghvi, business professor, author, and politician^[151]
• Linda Simon, English professor^[152]
• Sheldon Solomon, psychology professor^[153]
• Kathryn H. Starbuck, executive secretary and law professor^[154]
• Everett Stonequist, sociologist^[155]

Presidents of the College

• Charles Henry Keyes (1912–1925)^[156]
• Henry T. Moore (1925–1957)^[156]
• Val H. Wilson (1957–1964)^[156]
• Josephine Young Case (1964-1965; interim position)^[157]
• Joseph C. Palamountain, Jr. (1965–1987)^[156]
• David H. Porter (1987–1999)^[156]
• Jamienne S. Studley (1999–2003)^[156]
• Philip A. Glotzbach (2003–2020)^[156]
• Marc C. Conner (2020–present)^[158]