TRAILBLAZERS
Read about Alumni Trailblazers who have been featured in the Alumni Display Case in the south hall at 86 4th Avenue. You can also read the in-depth profiles of alums featured in the Grace magazine here.
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Stefan Karpinsky '92
Stefan Karpinsky is a co-creator of the Julia programming language; Chief Open Source Officer at Julia Computing, and a research engineer for Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment at NYU.Read More
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Vivian Rosenthal '90
Read More“New Media and Art projects collapse the boundaries between art and commerce by bridging the gap between art, design and technology.”
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Anne Waldman '58
Read MoreA writer, editor, teacher, performer, scholar, and activist who has lectured, read and performed her own work all over the world, and has collaborated with musicians, composers, visual artists, filmmakers and dancers.
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Maggie Howell '86
Read MoreAt a GCS assembly Maggie said, "I feel like I am giving back to the animals." This idea is one she stresses in much of her work. If you walk into GCS accompanied by a real live wolf on a leash, you are a trailblazer. Period.
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Tyler Maroney '87
Read MoreTyler Maroney’s path from journalist to private investigator was unexpected. And as the story of that journey unfolds, you begin to see that through twists and turns, a series of contrarians quietly led him through it, shedding light and nudging his direction along the way.
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Gillian Chaloner-Larsson '54
Read MoreThe Chaloner family has long ties to GCS. Gillian’s mother, Gwen Chaloner, was a beloved fourth grade teacher and eventually head of the Lower School at GCS from 1950-1968. Her niece, Kim, has taught here since 2000, and now two great-nieces are students.
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Diahann Billings-Burford ’86
Read MoreDiahann, a native of Brooklyn – where she still lives with her husband and two children, has created a career steeped in service to others.
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Max Kenner '92
Read MoreMax Kenner is the founder and Executive Director of the Bard Prison Initiative, which provides the opportunity for incarcerated men and women to earn a Bard College degree while serving their sentences.
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Elizabeth Walker '02
Read MoreLiz Walker balanced her dual interests: a life in the arts and serious academic pursuits. Landing a job with the newly forming Los Angeles Ballet, she deferred her acceptance to Harvard to dance in the company’s inaugural season.
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Paul Yager '67
Read MoreTrained as a chemist, Paul Yager has been a professor for nearly 30 years at the University of Washington, Seattle, teaching chemistry, chemical engineering and bioengineering—a department he chaired from 2008-2013.
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Ian Mangiardi '02
"We are all explorers. We explore our lives and the universe in which we live."Ian Mangiardi’s resume is not that of a typical New York City native. He has made a career balancing Urban Excursions and Outdoor Adventures.Read More
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Marco Seandel '86
Read More“There are a lot of similarities between cancer cells and stem cells. If you could understand what makes stem cells tick, maybe you could understand cancer.”
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