Academy Award and Oscar-winning composer and pianist Ruthie Ann Miles, Tony Award-winning actress known for roles in musical theatre and television Marvin Miller, executive director, Major League Baseball Players Association Velmanette Montgomery, politician Bruce Morrow, radio host Ildaura Murillo-Rohde, nurse, academic, UN representative to UNICEF Jules Olitski (1922-2007), artist Pearl Primus, dancer and choreographer Joya Powell, dancer, Bessie Award winning choreographer, and educator Joseph Reagle, Wikipedia scholar Cornelius L. Reid, author and vocal pedagogue specializing in the bel canto technique (as New York College of Music) Ian Riccaboni, sports broadcaster, host of Ring of Honor Will Roland, actor Charlotte Ronson, fashion designer Hafiz Sahar, Editor-in-Chief of national newspaper in Afghanistan (1970s), Fulbright Scholar Martin Scorsese, multi award-winning filmmaker Matthew Sklar, composer for musical theatre, television, and film John Patrick Shanley, Oscar-winning screenwriter, playwright, and director Elena Shaddow, Broadway and Off-Broadway actress and singer Joel Shapiro, sculptor Wayne Shorter, jazz musician and composer (as New York College of Music) Tillotama Shome, award-winning Indian film actress Marilyn Singer (born 1948), author Alan Silva, jazz double bassist and keyboardist (as New York College of Music) Ferdinand Sorenson, music educator, conductor, composer, dance instructor, performer Robert Smigel, actor, voice actor, comedian, humorist, writer, director, producer, and puppeteer Olivia Smith (journalist), Emmy award-winning journalist Meng Tang, media artist Harriet Taub, executive director, Materials for the Arts Cecil Taylor, classically trained pianist and pioneer of free jazz (as New York College of Music) LeRoy T. Walker, president of US Olympic Committee Harvey Weisenberg (born 1933), politician Austin Wintory, composer for video games and film Michael Zimmer, privacy and social media scholar Notable faculty Steinhardt's notable faculty have included: Mark Adamo, composer and librettist known for his opera Little Women. Arjun Appadurai, anthropologist, globalization theorist, media scholar, Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication Richard Arum, sociologist of education Amy Bentley, food studies professor Roscoe Brown, education professor, one of the Tuskegee Airmen Meg Bussert, actress, singer, music theatre professor Alexander Gemignani, Broadway actor, tenor, musician, and conductor. Ed Goodgold, music industry executive, writer, known for coining the term "trivia" Eduardus Halim, pianist, professor, inaugural holder of the Sascha Gorodnitzki Chair in Piano Studies at NYU Martha Hill, dance instructor and director of NYU's Dance Education program James Weldon Johnson, author, civil rights activist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, diplomat Charlton McIlwain, author, civil rights activist Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition and Food Studies, author, blogger Jeanne