Ward (M.F.A. 1992), Jamaican-born artist based in New York City whose work is often composed of found objects from his neighborhood, and "address issues related to consumer culture, poverty, and race" Marion Winik (M.F.A. 1983), journalist and author, best known for her work on NPR's All Things Considered Richard Winston (B.A. 1939) and Clara Brussel Winston (B.A. 1939), translators of Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Albert Speer, Hermann Hesse, and Rolf Hochhuth. Leah Nanako Winkler (M.F.A. 2018), Japanese American playwright whose play God Said This won the 2018 Yale Drama Series Prize. Adrianne Wortzel (B.A. 1964), contemporary artist who uses robotics Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (M.F.A 1987), New Romantic poet associated with St. Mark's Poetry Project John Yau (M.F.A. 1978), critic, essayist, poet, and prose writer Rafi Zabor (B.A. 1967), music journalist- and musician-turned-novelist Malcah Zeldis (B.A. 1972), twentieth century Jewish American folk painter Feenie Ziner (B.A. 1941), American children's literature writer and professor at the University of Connecticut Harriet Zinnes (M.A. 1944), American poet, fiction writer, translator, art critic, literary scholar and professor Religion J. David Bleich (B.A. 1960), authority on Jewish law and ethics, including Jewish medical ethics Bhikkhu Bodhi (B.A. 1966), American Buddhist monk, second president of the Buddhist Publication Society, 1984–2002 Reeve Brenner (B.A. 1958), Reform rabbi, inventor and author Mariano Di Gangi (B.A. 1943), prominent minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (PCC) Theodore Drange (B.A. 1955), philosopher of religion and Professor Emeritus at West Virginia University, noted for his Argument from nonbelief Sylvia Ettenberg (B.A 1938), Jewish educator and one of the founders of the Camp Ramah camping movement Susie Fishbein (B.A. 1986), Orthodox Jewish kosher cookbook author, and cooking teacher Satsvarupa dasa Goswami (B.A. 1961), senior disciple and biographer of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Blu Greenberg (B.A. 1957), co-founder and first president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance; active in the movement to bridge Judaism and feminism Jonathan Greenstein, antique Judaica authentication expert David Weiss Halivni (B.A. 1953), American-Israeli rabbi, scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud Norma Joseph (B.A. 1966), Canadian professor, Orthodox Jewish feminist, and activist Adina Miles (B.A. 2009, MS 2012), better known as FlatbushGirl, comedian, activist and political candidate, who has attracted attention for her challenges to Orthodox Jewish standards for women Rabbi Yaakov Perlow (B.A. 1955), Hasidic rebbe and rosh yeshiva, current Novominsker Rebbe