New Academy Members

Elected in 2025

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Academy President Laurie L. Patton and Chair of the Board of Directors Goodwin H. Liu have announced that nearly 250 outstanding individuals have been elected to the Academy in 2025. The new members are listed below, starting with a complete list in alphabetical order followed by members organized by area and specialty. International Honorary Members are indicated with (IHM) after their names. An online directory provides information about members from our founding in 1780 to members elected last year.

All Newly Elected Members

  • Gregory D. Abowd,  Northeastern University

  • Stacey Abrams,  Independent

  • Ian Agol,  University of California, Berkeley

  • Anurag Agrawal,  Cornell University

  • Jonathan R. Alger,  American University

  • Hashim M. Al-Hashimi,  Columbia University

  • Lucy Allais,  Johns Hopkins University

  • Nancy T. Ammerman,  Boston University School of Theology

  • José Andrés,  World Central Kitchen

  • Amy Angert,  University of British Columbia

  • Toni C. Antonucci,  University of Michigan

  • Deborah N. Archer,  New York University School of Law

  • Scott A. Armstrong,  Harvard Medical School

  • Lotte Bailyn,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Kavita Bala,  Cornell University

  • Rodolphe Barrangou,  North Carolina State University

  • Carl M. Bender,  Washington University in St. Louis

  • Charles H. Bennett,  IBM Research

  • Peggy Berryhill,  Native Media Resource Center

  • Irene J. Beyerlein,  University of California, Santa Barbara

  • William Bialek,  Princeton University

  • Joan Biskupic,  CNN

  • Ned Blackhawk,  Yale University

  • Rubén Blades,  Independent

  • Sara Naomi Bleich,  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

  • Kenneth A. Bollen,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Christine L. Borgman,  UCLA School of Education and Information Studies

  • Elizabeth H. Bradley,  Vassar College

  • David Brakke,  The Ohio State University

  • Paul V. Braun,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Christine Brennan,  USA Today

  • Donald L. Brenneis,  University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Harry Brighouse,  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • H. Jane Brockmann,  University of Florida

  • Frances Brodsky,  University College London

  • Jane E. Brody,  The New York Times

  • Camille A. Brown,  Camille A. Brown & Dancers

  • Gary Brudvig,  Yale University

  • Anne Brunet,  Stanford School of Medicine

  • Stephen Buratowski,  Harvard Medical School

  • Antoinette Burton,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Atul Butte,  University of California, San Francisco

  • Joan Bybee,  University of New Mexico

  • Frank Calegari,  University of Chicago

  • Melani Cammett,  Harvard University

  • Jim Canales,  Barr Foundation

  • Noël Carroll,  CUNY Graduate Center

  • Marta Catellani (IHM),  University of Parma

  • Elliot Chaikof,  Harvard Medical School

  • Roger Chevalier,  University of Virginia

  • Francis X. Clooney,  Harvard Divinity School

  • Kim Cobb,  Brown University

  • Cynthia E. Coburn,  Northwestern University

  • Marco Colonna,  Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

  • Blanche Wiesen Cook,  John Jay College of Criminal Justice

  • Graham Coop,  University of California, Davis

  • Anderson Cooper,  CNN

  • Shane Crotty,  La Jolla Institute for Immunology

  • Felix Dapare Dakora (IHM),  Tshwane University of Technology

  • Yang Dan,  University of California, Berkeley

  • William A. Darity, Jr.,  Duke University

  • Amanda Datnow,  University of California, San Diego

  • Kwame Dawes,  Independent

  • Michael Rutledge DeBaun,  Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

  • Rina Dechter,  University of California, Irvine

  • Laurence des Cars (IHM),  Musée du Louvre

  • Patricia G. Devine,  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Jeffrey S. Diamond,  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

  • John B. Diamond,  Brown University

  • Dennis E. Discher,  University of Pennsylvania

  • Lance Dixon,  Stanford University

  • David Dunning,  University of Michigan

  • Ava DuVernay,  Independent

  • Aida X. El-Khadra,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Lola Eniola-Adefeso,  University of Illinois Chicago

  • Anita Fields,  Independent

  • Karen M. Fischer,  Brown University

  • Alan Fletcher,  Aspen Music Festival and School

  • Robert Michael Franklin, Jr.,  Emory University Candler School of Theology

  • Howard W. French,  Columbia Journalism School

  • Bart Friedman,  Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP

  • Makoto Fujita (IHM),  University of Tokyo

  • Jennifer Gandhi,  Yale University

  • Wendy S. Garrett,  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

  • Jeffrey Gibson,  Independent

  • Faye Ginsburg,  New York University

  • Donna K. Ginther,  University of Kansas

  • Danny Glover,  Independent

  • Ann Grodzins Gold,  Syracuse University

  • Bob Goldstein,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Margaret A. Goodell,  Baylor College of Medicine

  • Marjorie Harness Goodwin,  University of California, Los Angeles

  • Usha Goswami (IHM),  University of Cambridge

  • Ian Gotlib,  Stanford University

  • Jacquelyn Grant,  Interdenominational Theological Center

  • Valentina Greco,  Yale School of Medicine

  • Alan D. Grinnell,  University of California, Los Angeles

  • James R. Grossman,  American Historical Association

  • Sebastian Günther (IHM),  University of Göttingen

  • Marina Halac,  Yale University

  • Katori Hall,  Independent

  • John C. Haltiwanger,  University of Maryland

  • James D. Hamilton,  University of California, San Diego

  • Randy Hampton,  University of California, San Diego

  • Patricia E. Harris,  Bloomberg Philanthropies

  • Oona A. Hathaway,  Yale Law School

  • Edith Heard (IHM),  College de France

  • William Iggiagruk Hensley,  University of Alaska

  • Nouria Hernandez,  University of Lausanne

  • Mary Helen Immordino-Yang,  University of Southern California

  • Jenann Ismael,  Johns Hopkins University

  • Chennupati Jagadish (IHM),  Australian National University

  • Christine Marie Janis,  Brown University

  • Ashish Jha,  Brown University

  • Paul C. Johnson,  University of Michigan

  • Richard Johnston (IHM),  University of British Columbia

  • Martha S. Jones,  Johns Hopkins University

  • Elaine R. Jones,  NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

  • Michael Jones-Correa,  University of Pennsylvania

  • Pieter M. Judson,  European University Institute

  • Cherie Kagan,  University of Pennsylvania

  • George E. Karniadakis,  Brown University

  • Raymond E. Keller,  University of Virginia

  • Catherine Keller,  Drew University

  • Laurel M. Kendall,  American Museum of Natural History

  • Fadlo R. Khuri,  American University of Beirut

  • Kim Hyesoon (IHM),  Independent

  • Tomas Kirchhausen,  Harvard Medical School

  • Anna I. Krylov,  University of Southern California

  • Leslie V. Kurke,  University of California, Berkeley

  • Jennifer Lackey,  Northwestern University

  • Taeku Lee,  Harvard University

  • Kenny Leon,  Roundabout Theatre Company

  • Yuval Levin,  American Enterprise Institute

  • Jeffrey B. Lewis,  University of California, Los Angeles

  • Kai Li,  Princeton University

  • Øystein Linnebo (IHM),  University of Oslo

  • Catherine Lord,  University of California, Irvine

  • Karen Lozano,  Rice University

  • Mark S. Lundstrom,  Purdue University

  • Kenneth W. Mack,  Harvard Law School

  • Christopher Manning,  Stanford University

  • M. Brian Maple,  University of California, San Diego

  • Lisa Martin,  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Jennifer B. H. Martiny,  University of California, Irvine

  • Jonathan Christopher Mattingly,  Duke University

  • Anne B. McCoy,  University of Washington

  • Duncan McCue (IHM),  Carleton University

  • Gareth McKinley,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Claire Messud,  Independent

  • Greg Miller,  Northwestern University

  • Joan W. Miller,  Harvard Medical School

  • Nicole Mitchell,  Independent

  • Samir Mitragotri,  Harvard University

  • Valerie Mizrahi (IHM),  University of Cape Town

  • Liam B. Murphy,  New York University School of Law

  • Norman Murray,  University of Toronto

  • Satya Nadella,  Microsoft Corporation

  • Mary Kathryn Nagle,  Mary Kathryn Nagle, Attorney at Law

  • Mark A. Nordenberg,  University of Pittsburgh

  • Jennifer Nuzzo,  Brown University

  • Karen O'Brien,  University of Oslo

  • Kenneth Offit,  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  • Akin Ogundiran,  Northwestern University

  • Samira Omar Asem (IHM),  Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research

  • Elaine A. Ostrander,  National Human Genome Research Institute

  • Carol Padden,  University of California, San Diego

  • Hongkun Park,  Harvard University

  • Bruce Partridge,  Haverford College

  • Virginia Pascual,  Weill Cornell Medicine

  • Diane Paulus,  American Repertory Theater

  • Charles M. Payne,  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  • Deborah M. Pearsall,  University of Missouri

  • H. Ross Perot, Jr.,  Hillwood Development Company, LLC

  • James Phelan,  The Ohio State University

  • Caryl Phillips,  Independent

  • Walter W. Powell,  Stanford University

  • Laura Pulido,  University of Oregon

  • Nasser Rabbat,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Frederic Rasio, Northwestern University

  • Sergio[AP1]  Rebelo,  Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management

  • Sarah E. Reisman,  California Institute of Technology

  • Donald Rio,  University of California, Berkeley

  • Callum Roberts (IHM),  University of Exeter

  • Gregory H. Robinson,  University of Georgia

  • Daniel B. Rodriguez,  Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

  • Sophia Rosenfeld,  University of Pennsylvania

  • Edward L. Rubin,  Vanderbilt University Law School

  • John Rust,  Georgetown University

  • Eduardo Salas,  Rice University

  • Mike Savage (IHM),  London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Simon Schaffer (IHM),  University of Cambridge

  • Robert Seder,  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

  • Paul Segall,  Stanford University

  • Mark S. Seidenberg,  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Vladimir M. Shalaev,  Purdue University

  • Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting,  Vanderbilt University

  • Kang Shen,  Stanford University

  • Donna Sheng,  California State University, Northridge

  • Susan S. Silbey,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Leigh W. Simmons (IHM),  University of Western Australia

  • Carole Simpson,  ABC News

  • Peter Singer,  Princeton University

  • Christopher Skinner,  Princeton University

  • Janet L. Smith,  University of Michigan

  • Rebecca Solnit,  Independent

  • Doris Sommer,  Harvard University

  • Dawn Song,  University of California, Berkeley

  • Ajay Kumar Sood (IHM),  Government of India

  • Anne Whiston Spirn,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Philip B. Stark,  University of California, Berkeley

  • Gloria Steinem,  Independent

  • Robert S. Steneck,  University of Maine

  • Ellen Stofan,  Smithsonian Institution

  • Philipp Strack,  Yale University

  • Carola Suárez-Orozco,  Harvard Graduate School of Education

  • Suresh Subramani,  University of California, San Diego

  • A. G. Sulzberger,  The New York Times

  • Jonathan V. Sweedler,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Kim TallBear,  University of Alberta

  • Amy Tan,  Independent

  • Sarah Teichmann (IHM),  University of Cambridge

  • David Hurst Thomas,  American Museum of Natural History

  • Francesca Trivellato,  Institute for Advanced Study

  • Brian Uzzi,  Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management

  • Salil Vadhan,  Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

  • Taika Waititi (IHM),  Independent

  • Johannes Walter,  Harvard Medical School

  • Alice L. Walton,  Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

  • Yifang Wang (IHM),  Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Della Warrior,  Multi-Indigenous Community Action

  • Kevin K. Washburn,  University of Iowa College of Law

  • Robin L. Washington,  Salesforce, Inc.

  • Yasushi Watanabe (IHM),  Keio University

  • Celeste Watkins-Hayes,  University of Michigan

  • Joan Weinstein,  The Getty Foundation

  • Michael I. Weinstein,  Columbia University

  • Susan R. Weiss,  University of Pennsylvania

  • Alexander Wendt,  The Ohio State University

  • Isabel Wilkerson,  Independent

  • Lauren K. Williams,  Harvard University

  • Don Winford,  The Ohio State University

  • Catherine Wolfram,  MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Rachel Wong,  University of Washington

  • Jacqueline Woodson,  Independent

  • Gary Yellen,  Harvard Medical School

  • James E. Young,  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Julián Zugazagoitia,  Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

The lists below present the American Academy’s newest members grouped in the thirty-one sections, organized within five classes, in which they were elected.

Interdisciplinary

Interclass                       

  • Mary Kathryn Nagle,  Mary Kathryn Nagle, Attorney at Law

CLASS I – Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Section 1 – Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics

  • Ian Agol,  University of California, Berkeley
  • Frank Calegari,  University of Chicago
  • Jonathan Christopher Mattingly,  Duke University
  • Christopher Skinner,  Princeton University
  • Philip B. Stark,  University of California, Berkeley
  • Michael I. Weinstein,  Columbia University
  • Lauren K. Williams,  Harvard University

Section 2 – Physics

  • Carl M. Bender,  Washington University in St. Louis
  • Charles H. Bennett,  IBM Research
  • William Bialek,  Princeton University
  • Lance Dixon,  Stanford University]
  • Aida X. El-Khadra,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • M. Brian Maple,  University of California, San Diego
  • Donna Sheng,  California State University, Northridge
  • Yifang Wang (IHM),  Chinese Academy of Sciences

Section 3 – Chemistry

  • Gary Brudvig,  Yale University
  • Anna I. Krylov,  University of Southern California
  • Anne B. McCoy,  University of Washington
  • Hongkun Park,  Harvard University
  • Sarah E. Reisman,  California Institute of Technology
  • Gregory H. Robinson,  University of Georgia
  • Jonathan V. Sweedler,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Marta Catellani (IHM),  University of Parma
  • Makoto Fujita (IHM),  University of Tokyo

Section 4 – Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth Sciences

  • Roger Chevalier,  University of Virginia
  • Kim Cobb,  Brown University
  • Karen M. Fischer,  Brown University
  • Norman Murray,  University of Toronto
  • Bruce Partridge,  Haverford College
  • Frederic Rasio, Northwestern University
  • Paul Segall,  Stanford University

Section 5 – Engineering and Technology

  • Irene J. Beyerlein,  University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Paul V. Braun,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Elliot Chaikof,  Harvard Medical School
  • Dennis E. Discher,  University of Pennsylvania
  • Lola Eniola-Adefeso,  University of Illinois Chicago
  • Cherie Kagan,  University of Pennsylvania
  • George E. Karniadakis,  Brown University
  • Karen Lozano,  Rice University
  • Mark S. Lundstrom,  Purdue University
  • Gareth McKinley,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Samir Mitragotri,  Harvard University
  • Vladimir M. Shalaev,  Purdue University
  • Chennupati Jagadish (IHM),  Australian National University

Section 6 – Computer Sciences

  • Gregory D. Abowd,  Northeastern University
  • Kavita Bala,  Cornell University
  • Christine L. Borgman,  UCLA School of Education and Information Studies
  • Rina Dechter,  University of California, Irvine
  • Kai Li,  Princeton University
  • Christopher Manning,  Stanford University
  • Dawn Song,  University of California, Berkeley
  • Salil Vadhan,  Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
CLASS II – Biological Sciences

Section 1 – Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology

  • Hashim M. Al-Hashimi,  Columbia University
  • Stephen Buratowski,  Harvard Medical School
  • Nouria Hernandez,  University of Lausanne
  • Elaine A. Ostrander,  National Human Genome Research Institute
  • Donald Rio,  University of California, Berkeley
  • Janet L. Smith,  University of Michigan
  • Johannes Walter,  Harvard Medical School
  • Felix Dapare Dakora (IHM),  Tshwane University of Technology

Section 2 – Cellular and Developmental Biology

  • Frances Brodsky,  University College London
  • Anne Brunet,  Stanford School of Medicine
  • Bob Goldstein,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Valentina Greco,  Yale School of Medicine
  • Randy Hampton,  University of California, San Diego
  • Raymond E. Keller,  University of Virginia
  • Tomas Kirchhausen,  Harvard Medical School
  • Suresh Subramani,  University of California, San Diego
  • Edith Heard (IHM),  College de France
  • Sarah Teichmann (IHM),  University of Cambridge

Section 3 – Neurosciences

  • Yang Dan,  University of California, Berkeley
  • Jeffrey S. Diamond,  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
  • Alan D. Grinnell,  University of California, Los Angeles
  • Kang Shen,  Stanford University
  • Rachel Wong,  University of Washington
  • Gary Yellen,  Harvard Medical School

Section 4 – Evolution and Ecology

  • Anurag Agrawal,  Cornell University
  • Amy Angert,  University of British Columbia
  • H. Jane Brockmann,  University of Florida
  • Graham Coop,  University of California, Davis
  • Christine Marie Janis,  Brown University
  • Jennifer B. H. Martiny,  University of California, Irvine
  • Robert S. Steneck,  University of Maine
  • Callum Roberts (IHM),  University of Exeter
  • Leigh W. Simmons (IHM),  University of Western Australia

Section 5 – Medical Sciences

  • Scott A. Armstrong,  Harvard Medical School
  • Jane E. Brody,  The New York Times
  • Atul Butte,  University of California, San Francisco
  • Michael Rutledge DeBaun,  Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  • Margaret A. Goodell,  Baylor College of Medicine
  • Ashish Jha,  Brown University
  • Joan W. Miller,  Harvard Medical School
  • Kenneth Offit,  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Section 6 – Microbiology and Immunology

  • Rodolphe Barrangou,  North Carolina State University
  • Marco Colonna,  Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • Shane Crotty,  La Jolla Institute for Immunology
  • Wendy S. Garrett,  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Virginia Pascual,  Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Robert Seder,  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  • Susan R. Weiss,  University of Pennsylvania
  • Valerie Mizrahi (IHM),  University of Cape Town
CLASS III – Social and Behavioral Sciences

Section 1 – Psychological Sciences

  • Toni C. Antonucci,  University of Michigan
  • Patricia G. Devine,  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • David Dunning,  University of Michigan
  • Ian Gotlib,  Stanford University
  • Greg Miller,  Northwestern University
  • Eduardo Salas,  Rice University
  • Mark S. Seidenberg,  University of Wisconsin-Madison

Section 2 – Economics

  • Donna K. Ginther,  University of Kansas
  • Marina Halac,  Yale University
  • John C. Haltiwanger,  University of Maryland
  • James D. Hamilton,  University of California, San Diego
  • Sergio Rebelo,  Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
  • John Rust,  Georgetown University
  • Philipp Strack,  Yale University
  • Catherine Wolfram,  MIT Sloan School of Management

Section 3 – Political Science

  • Melani Cammett,  Harvard University
  • Jennifer Gandhi,  Yale University
  • Michael Jones-Correa,  University of Pennsylvania
  • Taeku Lee,  Harvard University
  • Jeffrey B. Lewis,  University of California, Los Angeles
  • Lisa Martin,  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Alexander Wendt,  The Ohio State University
  • Richard Johnston (IHM),  University of British Columbia

Section 4 – Law

  • Deborah N. Archer,  New York University School of Law
  • Oona A. Hathaway,  Yale Law School
  • Elaine R. Jones,  NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  • Kenneth W. Mack,  Harvard Law School
  • Daniel B. Rodriguez,  Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
  • Edward L. Rubin,  Vanderbilt University Law School
  • Susan S. Silbey,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Kevin K. Washburn,  University of Iowa College of Law

Section 5 – Anthropology and Archaeology

  • Donald L. Brenneis,  University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Faye Ginsburg,  New York University
  • Marjorie Harness Goodwin,  University of California, Los Angeles
  • Akin Ogundiran,  Northwestern University
  • Deborah M. Pearsall,  University of Missouri
  • Kim TallBear,  University of Alberta
  • David Hurst Thomas,  American Museum of Natural History
  • Yasushi Watanabe (IHM),  Keio University

Section 6 – Sociology, Demography, and Geography

  • Kenneth A. Bollen,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Karen O'Brien,  University of Oslo
  • Charles M. Payne,  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • Walter W. Powell,  Stanford University
  • Laura Pulido,  University of Oregon
  • Brian Uzzi,  Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
  • Celeste Watkins-Hayes,  University of Michigan
  • Mike Savage (IHM),  London School of Economics and Political Science

Section 7 – Education

  • Harry Brighouse,  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Cynthia E. Coburn,  Northwestern University
  • Amanda Datnow,  University of California, San Diego
  • John B. Diamond,  Brown University
  • Mary Helen Immordino-Yang,  University of Southern California
  • Carola Suárez-Orozco,  Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Usha Goswami (IHM),  University of Cambridge
CLASS IV – Humanities and Arts

Section 1 – Philosophy

  • Lucy Allais,  Johns Hopkins University
  • Noël Carroll,  CUNY Graduate Center
  • Jenann Ismael,  Johns Hopkins University
  • Jennifer Lackey,  Northwestern University
  • Liam B. Murphy,  New York University School of Law
  • Peter Singer,  Princeton University
  • Øystein Linnebo (IHM),  University of Oslo

Section 2 – History

  • Ned Blackhawk,  Yale University
  • Antoinette Burton,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook,  John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Martha S. Jones,  Johns Hopkins University
  • Pieter M. Judson,  European University Institute
  • Sophia Rosenfeld,  University of Pennsylvania
  • Francesca Trivellato,  Institute for Advanced Study
  • Simon Schaffer (IHM),  University of Cambridge

Section 3 – Literature and Language Studies

  • Joan Bybee,  University of New Mexico
  • Leslie V. Kurke,  University of California, Berkeley
  • Carol Padden,  University of California, San Diego
  • James Phelan,  The Ohio State University
  • Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting,  Vanderbilt University
  • Doris Sommer,  Harvard University
  • Don Winford,  The Ohio State University
  • James E. Young,  University of Massachusetts Amherst

Section 4 – Literature

  • Kwame Dawes,  Independent
  • Katori Hall,  Independent
  • Claire Messud,  Independent
  • Caryl Phillips,  Independent
  • Rebecca Solnit,  Independent
  • Amy Tan,  Independent
  • Jacqueline Woodson,  Independent
  • Kim Hyesoon (IHM),  Independent

Section 5 – Visual Arts

  • Anita Fields,  Independent
  • Jeffrey Gibson,  Independent
  • Catherine Lord,  University of California, Irvine
  • Nasser Rabbat,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Anne Whiston Spirn,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Section 6 – Performing Arts

  • Rubén Blades,  Independent
  • Camille A. Brown,  Camille A. Brown & Dancers
  • Ava DuVernay,  Independent
  • Danny Glover,  Independent
  • Kenny Leon,  Roundabout Theatre Company
  • Nicole Mitchell,  Independent
  • Diane Paulus,  American Repertory Theater
  • Taika Waititi (IHM),  Independent

Section 7 – Religious Studies

  • Nancy T. Ammerman,  Boston University School of Theology
  • David Brakke,  The Ohio State University
  • Francis X. Clooney,  Harvard Divinity School
  • Ann Grodzins Gold,  Syracuse University
  • Jacquelyn Grant,  Interdenominational Theological Center
  • Paul C. Johnson,  University of Michigan
  • Catherine Keller,  Drew University
  • Laurel M. Kendall,  American Museum of Natural History
  • Sebastian Günther (IHM),  University of Göttingen
CLASS V – Leadership, Policy, and Communications

Section 1 – Journalism, Media, and Communications

  • Peggy Berryhill,  Native Media Resource Center
  • Joan Biskupic,  CNN
  • Christine Brennan,  USA Today
  • Anderson Cooper,  CNN
  • Howard W. French,  Columbia Journalism School
  • Carole Simpson,  ABC News
  • Gloria Steinem,  Independent
  • Isabel Wilkerson,  Independent
  • Duncan McCue (IHM),  Carleton University

Section 2 – Business, Corporate, and Philanthropic Leadership

  • Jim Canales,  Barr Foundation
  • Bart Friedman,  Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
  • Patricia E. Harris,  Bloomberg Philanthropies
  • Satya Nadella,  Microsoft Corporation
  • H. Ross Perot, Jr.,  Hillwood Development Company, LLC
  • A. G. Sulzberger,  The New York Times
  • Alice L. Walton,  Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
  • Robin L. Washington,  Salesforce, Inc.

Section 3 – Educational and Academic Leadership

  • Jonathan R. Alger,  American University
  • Lotte Bailyn,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Elizabeth H. Bradley,  Vassar College
  • Robert Michael Franklin, Jr.,  Emory University Candler School of Theology
  • Fadlo R. Khuri,  American University of Beirut
  • Mark A. Nordenberg,  University of Pittsburgh

Section 4 – Public Affairs and Public Policy

  • Stacey Abrams,  Independent
  • William A. Darity, Jr.,  Duke University
  • William Iggiagruk Hensley,  University of Alaska
  • Yuval Levin,  American Enterprise Institute
  • Jennifer Nuzzo,  Brown University
  • Ellen Stofan,  Smithsonian Institution
  • Ajay Kumar Sood (IHM),  Government of India

Section 5 – Scientific, Cultural, and Nonprofit Leadership

  • José Andrés,  World Central Kitchen
  • Sara Naomi Bleich,  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Alan Fletcher,  Aspen Music Festival and School
  • James R. Grossman,  American Historical Association
  • Della Warrior,  Multi-Indigenous Community Action
  • Joan Weinstein,  The Getty Foundation
  • Julián Zugazagoitia,  Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
  • Laurence des Cars (IHM),  Musée du Louvre
  • Samira Omar Asem (IHM),  Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
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