at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital Military Andrew J. Olmsted – U.S. Army Major; blogger; killed in action while serving in the Iraq War (BA Government & International Relations 1992) Journalism and media Ben Bagdikian – educator and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, played a major role in publishing the Pentagon Papers; editor of The Clark News while an undergraduate (LittD 1963) Mark Bittman – food journalist for The New York Times and author of How to Cook Everything Otis Ferguson – film critic for The New Republic in the 1930s Ronald Kessler – journalist and author Jon "Stugotz" Weiner – co-host of The Dan LeBatard Show with Stugotz on ESPN Radio (BMOC) Literature Christopher Collier – children's author (My Brother Sam is Dead) (BA 1951, LHD 2008) Betsy Wollheim – President, co-Publisher and co-Editor-in-Chief of science fiction and fantasy publisher DAW Books Xu Zhimo – 20th century Chinese romantic poet Art, entertainment, and architecture Moti Bodek – Israeli architect; senior lecturer in architecture at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (MPA 1995) Corey Carrier – child actor (BA) Steven DePaul – Emmy Award-winning television producer and director of NYPD Blue (BA English 1972) Ali Fedotowsky – host of NBC television show 1st Look, star of the sixth season of The Bachelorette (BA Psychology 2006) Mitch Glazer – film producer and screenwriter (Scrooged, The Recruit, Lost in Translation) Alexander Gould – actor, voice of Nemo in Finding Nemo John Heard – actor (BA History 1968) Padma Lakshmi – host of television show Top Chef (BA Theater 1992) Paul Pena – singer, songwriter and guitarist Ben Schechter – Internet artist (BA Government 2003) Brian Shactman – former ESPN broadcaster; co-anchor of Worldwide Exchange on CNBC (MA English) Religion Frederick Madison Smith – religious leader; author; a Prophet-President of the Community of Christ Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now renamed Community of Christ (PhD 1916) Athletics and exploration Jeffrey Lurie – owner of Philadelphia Eagles (BA Psychology 1973) Paul Siple – Antarctic explorer and inventor of wind chill factor (PhD Geography 1939, DSc 1958) Hope Tula - Certified Athletic Trainer (BA Biology 2020) Activism and reform William Aramony – CEO of United Way of America, later convicted of fraud (BA 1949) Pilar Barbosa – Puerto Rican educator and activist Robert Dexter – human rights (PhD Sociology 1927) Miriam Van Waters – prison reformer Mesfin Woldemariam