1950), co-founder of Vanguard Records, music producer, and musicologist David Sardy music producer, film composer Jason Stanyek (B.M. 1990), ethnomusicologist, composer, and guitarist; professor at the University of Oxford Dirk Weiler (M.M. 2002), singer and actor Walter Yetnikoff (B.A. 1955), CEO of CBS Records, Columbia Records/Sony Music executive Government, law, and public policy General Cy A Adler (B.A. 1950), president of Shorewalkers, Inc.; author, organizer, and conservationist, advocate for shoreline issues in and around New York City Dionisia Amaya (Adv. Cert. 1987), teacher and Honduran Garifuna community activist Bill Baird (B.A. 1955), reproductive rights activist and co-director of the Pro Choice League Barbara P. Berman (B.A. 1959), Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly for a single term, where she represented the 6th Legislative District from 1978 to 1980 Dorothy Blum (B.A. 1944), computer scientist, cryptanalyst, and National Security Agency officer Barbara Boxer (née Barbara Levy; B.A. 1962), United States Representative and United States Senator (D – California) Frank J. Brasco (B.A. 1955), member of the United States House of Representatives 1967–75 Marshall Brement (B.A. 1951), career United States Foreign Service officer; United States Ambassador to Iceland 1981–1985 Shirley Chisholm (B.A. 1946), first African-American U.S. Congresswoman, 1968–82 Gwyndolen Clarke-Reed (B.S. 1973), educator and representative for District 92 of the Florida House of Representatives Manuel F. Cohen (B.S. 1933), chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, 1964–69 William Colton (MSed 1971), represents District 47 in the New York Assembly Victoria Cruz (B.A. 1982), LGBT rights activist and retired domestic violence counselor Donald J. Devine (M.A. 1965), political scientist; author; former director of the United States Office of Personnel Management Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel (B.A. 1952), author, preservationist, curator, and chairwoman of the New York State Council on the Arts Martin Malave Dilan (B.A. 1984), represented District 17 in the New York State Senate 2009-19 Stanley Fink (B.A. 1956), member of the New York State Assembly 1969–1986; Speaker 1979–1986 Leonard Garment (B.A. 1946), White House Counsel Phillip Goldfeder (B.A. '04), Democratic New York State Assembly member from the borough of Queens, 2011–2016. Victor Gotbaum (B.A. 1948), labor leader Ari Harow (B.A. 2000), former Chief of Staff of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Syed Fahad Hashmi (B.A. 2003), convicted terrorist Dov Hikind (M.A. 1981), New York State Assemblyman representing Brooklyn's Assembly District 48 Herbert E. Horowitz (B.A. 1952), American Ambassador to Gabon (1986–1989) Rhoda Jacobs (B.A. 1962), represents District 42 in Brooklyn in