sun using spectroscopy Karen Strier – professor of biological anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Daniel F. Styer (Ph.D. 1983) - professor of physics at Oberlin College Joseph Takahashi – neuroscientist at Northwestern University; member of the National Academy of Sciences; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator; identified key genes involved in mammalian circadian rhythms Emma Vyssotsky - astronomer at the University of Virginia Peter J. Weinberger – computer scientist; former head of CS Research at Bell Labs; inventor of the AWK programming language Politics and government Kyle Anderson – Executive Director at Congressional Black Caucus Samuel Assefa – Ethiopian Ambassador to the United States Erica Barks-Ruggles – U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda Paul Booth – Labor leader, executive assistant to the president of AFSCME William H. Brown, Jr. – parliamentarian, the United States House of Representatives Armond Budish – Democratic Minority Leader of Ohio House of Representatives Dennis Cheng – national finance director of the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton Scott Cowger – Democratic state legislator from Maine Peter Deutsch – Democratic member of the House of Representatives, 1993–2005; represented Florida's 20th congressional district Michael Dukakis – Governor of Massachusetts; Democratic nominee in the 1988 presidential election Christiana Figueres – Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (2010–2016) Robert P. George – member, President's Council on Bioethics; professor, Princeton University Josh Green – 14th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii Rush Holt Jr. – Congressman from New Jersey, 1999 - 2015 Kevin Hassett – chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, 2017-2019 Leon Henderson – administrator of the Office of Price Administration, 1941-1942 James Hormel – former ambassador to Luxembourg, first openly gay U.S. Ambassador Eugene M. Lang – philanthropist, founder of the I Have A Dream Foundation; 1996 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Thomas B. McCabe – Chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 1948-1951, and recipient of the Medal of Merit for his government work during World War II. Carl Levin – Democratic U.S. Senator from Michigan Mary B. Newman – Republican member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1953–1954 and 1957–1970 Alice Paul – women's suffrage leader from 1913 onwards, author of first Equal Rights Amendment proposal Amos J. Peaslee – politician, author, and United States Ambassador to Australia, 1953-1956 Robert D. Putnam – social capital theorist, author of Bowling Alone, Harvard University professor Antoinette Sayeh – Minister of Finance, Liberia William C.