​Colorado College
Class of 1972, Philosophy

William Adams was nominated by President Barack Obama as the tenth chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in July 2014. He previously served as president of Colby College from 2000 to 2014 and as president of Bucknell University from 1995 to 2000. Adams was vice president and secretary of Wesleyan University from 1993 to 1995, and he was program coordinator of the Great Works in Western Culture program at Stanford University from 1986 to 1988. He also held various teaching positions at Stanford University, Santa Clara University, and the University of North Carolina. Adams has served on a number of boards, including Maine Public Broadcasting and Unitil, a New England-based energy company. Early in his academic career, Adams was a Fulbright Scholar and conducted research at the École des Hautes Études and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Adams served three years in the U.S. Army, including one year in the Vietnam War as a first lieutenant. It was partly that experience that motivated him to study and teach in the humanities when he returned to his formal education. A native of Birmingham, Michigan, and son of an auto industry executive, Adams earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy at Colorado College in 1972 and a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz History of Consciousness Program in 1982.

​University of Puget Sound
Class of 1980, Politics and Government and Urban Affairs

Deanna Oppenheimer is a leading international finance expert. She is founder of CameoWorks, LLC, a retail and financial services advisory firm. From 2005 to 2012, Oppenheimer worked at Barclays PLC, where she transformed the global retail and business banking divisions. At Barclays, she began as chief executive of U.K. retail and business banking, and in 2009, she became vice chair of global retail banking, implementing best business practices across Europe and Africa. In 2010, she was appointed chief executive of Europe retail and business banking, helping to stabilize the business during the Euro crisis. Under her leadership, customer satisfaction improved from last place among U.K. banks to first place. From 1985 to 2005, Oppenheimer worked at Washington Mutual, Inc., the largest savings and loan institution in the United States. She was marketing director and, later, president of consumer banking, where she helped transform the lender from a regional to a national player. In 2007, Oppenheimer was named Great Britain’s Business Communicator of the Year and in October 2010 was voted American Banker magazine’s Second Most Powerful Woman in Banking. Oppenheimer serves on many boards, including Tesco PLC, AXA Global Insurance, and the University of Puget Sound board of trustees. In addition, she is a senior advisor to Bain Consulting, Brooks Running, Anthemis Group, and Finsphere. Oppenheimer graduated with honors from the University of Puget Sound, and she also attended the executive education program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

​St. Olaf College
Class of 1989, Physics and Fine Arts

David Rose is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and instructor at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on making physical environments interface with digital information. Rose also is the CEO of Ditto Labs, an image-recognition software platform that scours social media photos to find brands and products. His new book, Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things, focuses on the network of physical objects equipped with software, sensors, and connected to the internet—and how these technologies will affect the ways we live and work. Earlier, Rose founded and was CEO at Vitality, a company that reinvented medication packaging now used by CVS, Walgreens, and Express Scripts. He also founded Ambient Devices, which pioneered “glanceable technology” that embeds internet information in everyday objects such as lamps, mirrors, and umbrellas. In 1997, Rose was the first to patent an online photo sharing service, and he holds patents for interactive TV, ambient information displays, and medical devices. Earlier he founded and was president of Interactive Factory, which creates interactive museum exhibits, educational software, and smart toys, including the award-winning LEGO Mindstorms Robotic Invention System. Rose’s work has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, covered in the New York Times, WIRED, and the Economist, and parodied on the Colbert Report. He earned bachelor’s degrees in physics and fine arts from St. Olaf College and a master’s degree in technology in education from Harvard University.

​Kenyon College
Class of 2008, Sociology

Matthew Segal is the co-founder and executive editor of ATTN:, a new media company with a mission to inform, educate, and empower the millennial generation as well as encourage social change. In this capacity, he oversees daily commentary, videos, and news articles that break down key issues for his generation’s attention and civic involvement. Previously, Segal was the co-founder and president of OurTime.org, which became one of the nation’s largest advocacy organizations for young Americans. While there, he led campaigns to expand job opportunities, voting rights, and civic education among his generation while devising strategic partnerships with media brands to enhance the voice of his peers. Under his leadership, OurTime.org registered hundreds of thousands of voters; rallied celebrities, artists, and musicians to educate millions through social media about the importance of voting; and built state-of-the-art voting technology to assist people with ballot questions and concerns. Segal is a regular TV commentator for MSNBC and has been a recurring guest on the TODAY Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and the CBS Evening News. A native of Chicago, Segal graduated from Kenyon College in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology.

​DePauw University
Class of 1973, French and Political Science

James Stewart has published nine books, including the national bestsellers Disney War, Den of Thieves, Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder, and Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries. His most recent book is Tangled Webs: How False Statements Are Undermining America. Stewart won the Pulitzer Prize for articles on the 1987 stock market crash, which were published in the Wall Street Journal. He also has won the George Polk Award for outstanding journalism, Gerald Loeb Award for outstanding finance and business journalism, and Edgar Allen Poe Award for outstanding mystery writing. Stewart has served as the front-page editor of the Wall Street Journal and was a founding editor of Smart Money. He currently writes about business in the “Common Sense” column of the New York Times Business Day section and regularly contributes to the New Yorker. In addition, Stewart is the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Before turning to journalism, Stewart practiced law with the firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. Born and raised in Quincy, Illinois, he received his bachelor’s degree in French and political science from DePauw University and his JD from Harvard Law School.

​St. Lawrence University
Class of 1978, Government

Jeffery Boyd is the founder and managing director of Brothers Brook, LLC, a strategic investment firm focusing on consumer internet and health care services businesses. Currently chair of the board of directors of Priceline Group, Inc., he was CEO from 2002 to 2013, when he led the company from near bankruptcy to become one of the most successful internet businesses in the country. Boyd serves on the boards of directors of Healthcare, Inc. and MDX Medical Inc. and is chair of St. Lawrence University’s board of trustees, to which he was first elected as a term trustee in 2004. Prior to joining Priceline, Boyd held positions as executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary of Oxford Health Plans, Inc. and assistant general counsel of Lord Abbett & Co., an investment advisory firm. He has practiced law with the law firm of Robinson & Cole in Connecticut and with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Australia. He was previously a member of the board of trustees of the Brunswick School in Connecticut. Boyd began his undergraduate education at New England College and completed his BA in government at St. Lawrence University in 1978. He earned a JD from Cornell Law School in 1981.

​St. Lawrence University
Class of 1975, Government

First elected in 1996, United States Senator Susan Collins from Maine has earned a national reputation as an effective legislator who works across party lines to seek consensus on our nation’s most important issues. This year, she was ranked the most bipartisan member of the U.S. Senate in a non-partisan index by the Lugar Center and Georgetown University. Senator Collins graduated Phi Beta Kappa from St. Lawrence University where she majored in government. With the skills she gained from a liberal arts education, Senator Collins embarked on a life of distinguished public service that now spans five decades. In the U.S. Senate, she has been a tireless advocate for education and has consistently supported efforts to help make postsecondary education more accessible and affordable for all families, regardless of income. As a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Senator Collins continues to lead efforts to increase funding for Pell Grants and the federal TRIO programs. Having worked at Husson University in Bangor, Maine, she saw first-hand how critical these programs are for hardworking families across the country. Senator Collins’s work ethic is further reflected in the fact that, in her 18 years in office, she has never missed a roll call vote.

​Willamette University
Class of 1973, History

James Cuno has served as president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust since 2011. From 2004 to 2011, he was president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago, and from 2002 to 2004 he was director and professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London. Cuno also has directed the Harvard University Art Museums (1991–2002), the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College (1989–1991), and the Grunwald Center of the Graphic Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (1986–1989). He has held teaching positions at Vassar College, UCLA, Dartmouth, and Harvard. Cuno has lectured and written widely on museums and cultural and public policy. Since 2003, he has published Whose Muse? Art Museums and the Public’s Trust, Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate Over Antiquities, and Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage, and most recently Museums Matter: In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum. Cuno is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he earned a BA in history from Willamette University in 1973, an MA in art history from the University of Oregon in 1978, and an MA and PhD in fine arts (history of art) from Harvard University in 1981 and 1985, respectively.

​Lewis and Clark College
Class of 2009, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Isaac Holeman is a co-founder of Medic Mobile, a nonprofit tech and health care company that has been lauded for improving the care of 3 million people in more than 20 countries. Medic Mobile received a Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2014, and Holeman has been featured twice in Forbes magazine as one of the top “30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs.” His writing has appeared in publications such as National Geographic, Oregonian, and Harvard Global Health Review. Today, Holeman continues to contribute to Medic Mobile while pursuing research projects as a fellow of the University of Edinburgh’s Global Health Academy and as a Gates Cambridge Scholar in innovation, strategy, and organization. In these roles, he studies the variable outcomes of health care technologies to improve their design. Holeman has presented at TED conferences in Berlin and Cambridge. In 2011, he was named mHealth Innovator of the Year by the Rockefeller Foundation and mHealth Alliance, and in 2010 he was named an Echoing Green Fellow, the preeminent award for early-career social entrepreneurs. Holeman earned bachelor’s degrees in biochemistry and molecular biology from Lewis & Clark College in 2009 and received an MPhil from Cambridge University in sociology in 2012.

​Kenyon College
Class of 1970, English and Drama

Murray Horwitz is a Tony Award-winning playwright, lyricist, and director. His accomplishments include originating the hit National Public Radio comedy quiz show, Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me; co-authoring the hit Broadway musical, Ain’t Misbehavin’; and writing the song lyrics for John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby at the Metropolitan Opera. In 2014, he wrote and directed Of Thee We Sing: The Marian Anderson 75th Anniversary Celebration for Washington Performing Arts, where he currently is director of special projects. Author of several other plays and musicals, Horwitz has won three Peabody Awards, a Tony, two National Medals of Arts, and the Order of Arts and Letters from the government of France. Freedom Rider, a new play he co-authored, had its premiere in Kansas City, Missouri, in May 2015. He earned bachelor’s degrees in drama and English from Kenyon College.

​Greenville College
Class of 2007, Physics and Mathematics

Jason Kozemczak is a software engineer and entrepreneur who specializes in global-scale consumer mobile applications. He was a technical lead at Twitter from 2013 to 2015, working on Twitter’s iPhone and iPad product that became a “Top App” in 2013 in the App Store and an overall top free app worldwide. He also taught fellow engineers in Twitter’s in-house training program. During his time at Twitter, the company went through an initial public offering and expanded to nearly 300 million monthly active users. In 2012, Kozemczak co-founded iOhYes, a podcast that focuses on iPhone and Macintosh software development. In early 2015, iOhYes joined the 5by5 podcast network, one of the premier tech podcast networks in the world. Kozemczak co-hosted the podcast during that time. Today Kozemczak engineers consumer iPhone products at Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery service that operates in more than 15 cities in the United States. He is a 2007 graduate of Greenville College with a BS in physics and a BA in mathematics.

​Ohio Wesleyan University
Class of 1976, Journalism and Political Science

Gregory Moore has been the editor of the Denver Post since 2002. Under his leadership, the newspaper has won four consecutive Pulitzer Prizes: for breaking news in 2013, for feature photography in 2012, for editorial cartooning in 2011, and for feature photography in 2010, nearly doubling the total Pulitzers that the Denver Post had won in its history. Previously, Moore worked at the Boston Globe, where he was an editor for 16 years, including eight years as managing editor. He began his career in Ohio, reporting for the Journal-Herald and then the Cleveland Plain Dealer. From 2004 to 2013, he served on the Pulitzer Prize Board, including a year as co-chair with Thomas Friedman. Moore has been a member of the board of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and served on the board of trustees at his alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan University. He is a founding member of the Cleveland chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and is a former member of the national NABJ board. In 2012, Moore was named Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year. He earned a BA in journalism and political science from Ohio Wesleyan University.

​Stetson University
Class of 1974, Physics

William Newsome is a leading researcher in systems and cognitive neuroscience and has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of neural mechanisms that underlie visual perception and simple forms of decision making. Currently, he is an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, and Harman Family Provostial Professor at Stanford University. From 2013 to 2014, Newsome was co-chair of the National Institutes of Health working group that formed the scientific plan for the White House BRAIN Initiative, which has been characterized as the “moonshot” of the 21st century. Newsome is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Dan David Prize, the Karl Spencer Lashley Award of the American Philosophical Society, the Champalimaud Vision Award, the Pepose Award for the Study of Vision, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He serves on the scientific advisory boards of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the Riken Brain Institute, the McKnight Scholars Awards Selection Committee of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, and the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academy of Sciences. He received a BS in physics from Stetson University and a PhD in biology from the California Institute of Technology.