1987): Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem Durreen Shahnaz (class of 1989): founder of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) Becca Balint (class of 1990): current member of the United States House of Representatives from Vermont Jennifer Chrisler (class of 1992): executive director of the Family Equality Council Piper Kerman (class of 1992): Orange Is the New Black author, lived in Chapin House Deborah Archer (class of 1993): first Black person to be elected President of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Kim Janey (class of 1994): first woman and first Black person to serve as mayor of the City of Boston Hanya Yanagihara (class of 1995): author and editor Emily W. Murphy (class of 1995) Administrator of the General Services Administration under Donald Trump Dorie Clark, (class of 1997): author and executive education professor Luma Mufleh (class of 1997): founder and director of Fugees Family, Inc. Cass Bird (class of 1999): fashion photographer Erin Morgenstern (class of 2000): The Night Circus author Sara Haines (class of 2000): co-host of The View, ABC News correspondent Rubaiyat Hossain (class of 2002): filmmaker of feature films Under Construction and Made in Bangladesh Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (class of 2002): documentarian, winner of two Academy Awards Julia Scott (class of 2002): NPR and New York Times journalist Kimberly Drew (class of 2012): art curator and cultural critic Notable staff Herbert Baxter Adams (1850–1901), educator, historian, and cofounder of the American Historical Association taught history at Smith from 1878 to 1881. Newton Arvin, American literary critic and academic Leonard Baskin, an artist who taught at Smith from 1953 to 1974 Mary Ellen Chase, educator and author, taught English at Smith from 1926 to 1955. Emily Hale, speech and drama teacher, and muse of T.S. Eliot Louise Holland (1893–1990), academic, philologist and archaeologist, taught here from 1957 to 1964 Yusef Abdul Lateef, an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer, thought to be one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, taught at Smith during the early 2000s. Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), a great American poet and erudite, was an English professor from 1957 to 1958. Kurt Vonnegut, served as Writer-in-Residence during the 2000–2001 school year Jane Zielonko, translator of The Captive Mind (1953), taught English at Smith from 1946. In 1960, three Smith professors, one who had been there for 38 years, were fired or "allowed to retire" for being gay. This was chronicled in a