Sofia Adrogué
English & Legal Studies | 1988
Judge, 11th Division Texas Business Court; former senior partner, Diamond McCarthy LLP
Mark Brice
Art & Art History | 1980
Won an Emmy for cinematography for the PBS series Carrier about the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier during the Iraq War
William Broyles Jr.
History | 1966
Founding editor of Texas Monthly, editor at Newsweek and screenwriter for the television series China Beach and such films as Cast Away, Unfaithful and Apollo 13
Carol Flake Chapman
English | 1969
Founding editor of Vanity Fair, horse racing correspondent for The New Yorker, rock critic for Village Voice, stringer for U.S. News & World Report, and editor and columnist for Boston Globe
Daisy Chung
Visual Arts | 2014
Visual communicator and illustrator who was part of Reuters team awarded the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for an investigation into the fentanyl trade between China and the United States
Linda Coffee
German | 1965
Was just 30 when she and another attorney argued the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade case
Alison Cook
English | 1969
Restaurant critic who won the industry’s top honors, including the MFK Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing from the James Beard Foundation, along with James Beard Awards for restaurant reviewing — the Oscars of the culinary arts
Ronnie Cummins
English & Philosophy | 1969
Co-founded the Organic Consumers Association and became a leading promoter of organic food and a forceful critic of genetically modified food
David Eagleman
English | 1993
Neuroscientist, Guggenheim fellow and New York Times bestselling author recognized for his work on sensory substitution, time perception, brain plasticity, synesthesia and neurolaw
Kyle Henry
Art and Art History | 1994
Film director, editor and educator who co-edited Emmy Award-winning film, Where Soldiers Come From
Amy Hobby
Art and Art History | 1987
Oscar-nominated and Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer of What Happened, Miss Simone?, a documentary about the singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone
Ray Isle
English | 1986
Executive wine editor for Food & Wine magazine; one of the best-known wine writers in the country and among the top in the world
Alexander Karsner
Religious Studies | 1989
Conservationist, venture capitalist, innovation strategist, energy entrepreneur, former diplomat, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy
Jo Ling Kent
Asian Studies, History & Policy Studies | 2006
A television journalist and the senior business and technology correspondent at CBS News
Lauren Kern
History | 1997
Editor-in-chief at Apple News, former executive editor and editorial director of New York Magazine, and as deputy editor of the New York Times Magazine
Noorain Khan
Religious Studies, Women & Gender Studies, & Political Science | 2006
National President, Girl Scouts of the USA
Dolly Li
Art & Economics | 2012
Emmy award-winning video journalist and filmmaker
Casey Michel
English & Sports Management | 2010
Investigative journalist, head of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation and author of Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World
Evan Mintz
History | 2008
Journalist, attorney, and opinion and community engagement editor for Houston Chronicle, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing for a series on gun laws and violence
James Mischka
Art & Art History | 1985
Studied at Parsons School of Design, where he met Mark Badgley, and the duo went on to launch the fashion design label Badgley Mischka
Charles Renfro
Art, Art History & Architecture | 1987, 1989
Award-winning partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro who led the team that designed Sarofim Hall, our new home for the visual arts at Rice
Huidi Xiang
Studio Art & Architecture | 2018
Sculptor based in Brooklyn, New York, whose work has been exhibited internationally