Interviews by Education Update from 1995-2013

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Corporate Heads
• Bob Wright, CEO, NBC Universal
• Suzanne Wright, Founder, Autism Speaks
• Harold McGraw III
• Adam Bronfman, Pres., Bronfman Foundation
• Mortimer Levitt, CEO, Custom Shops; Philanthropist
• Peter Boneparth, CEO, Jones Corp.
• Preston Robert Tisch
• George Weiss, Weiss Investments
• Anthony Duke

Medical Leaders
• Dr. Herbert Pardes, President, NY Presbyterian Hospital
• Dr. Sigurd H. Ackerman, Pres. Silver Hill Hospital
• Dr. Paul Nurse, Pres., Rockefeller University, Nobel Laureate
• Dr. Joseph Fins, president-elect of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
• Deans of all medical schools in NYC
• Dr. John Harrington, Tufts U. Medical School
• Dr. Fred Volkmar, Yale University
• Dr. Edward Zigler, Yale University
• Dr. Marc Brackett, Yale University
 
Politicians
• Senator Edward Kennedy
• Teresa Heinz Kerry
• First Lady Laura Bush
 
Foundation Leaders
• Edith Everett, Edith Everett Foundation
• Sandra Priest Rose, Rose Foundation
• Kerry Kennedy
• Dr. Lorraine Monroe
• Eugene Lang, philanthropist, creator of “I Have a Dream”
• Stanley Kaplan, former CEO, Kaplan Enterprises
• Rita Kaplan
• Dr. Alan Goodman, Pres, Institute for International Education (IIE)
• Laurie Tisch
• Vartan Gregorian, Pres. Carnegie Foundation

Musicians, Artists and Writers
• Itzhak Pearlman, violinist
• Mark O’Connor
• Joshua Bell, violinist
• Renee Fleming
• Marilyn Horne
• Wess Anderson-jazz saxophonist
• Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
• Dr. Maya Angelou
• Erica Jong
• Valery Gergiev
• Poet Laureates around the nation have been interviewed for the past 10 years.

University Presidents, Professors and Education Leaders
• Professor Howard Gardner, Harvard University
• President Arthur Levine, Teacher’s College
• Martha Kanter, U.S. Under Secretary of Education
• President Tomas Morales, College of Staten Island
• President Ricardo Fernandz, Lehman College
• President Ernest Logan, Council of School Supervisors and Administrators
• President Michael Mulgrew, United Federation of Teachers
• President Alan Kadish, Touro College
• CEO Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools
• President Judith Shapiro, Barnard College
• President Debora L. Spar, Barnard College
• President Ruth Simmons, Brown University
• President Amy Gutmann, U. of Pennsylvania
• President Jennifer Raab, Hunter College
• President James Muyskens, Queens College
• President Augusta Kappner, Bank Street College
• Professor Michael Rebell, Teachers College
• Chancellor Michelle Rhee, DC Public Schools
• Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, CUNY
• Rudy Crew, Former NYC Chancellor
• Ramon Cortines, Former NYC Chancellor
• Joel Klein, NYC Chancellor
• President Kimberly Cline, Mercy College
• President Mildred Garcia, Berkeley College
• President Lynda Katz, Landmark College
• President Susan Fuhrman, Teachers College
• President Bernard Lander, Touro College
• Superintendent Shelly Harwayne
• Dean Mary Brabeck, School of  Education, NYU
• Dean Jon Snyder, School of Education, Bank Street College
• Dean David Steiner, Hunter College
• Dean Deborah Shanley, Brooklyn College
• President Donna Shalala, U. of Miami
• President  Catherine  Hill, Vassar College

Outstanding Women
• Eleanor Roosevelt, II
• Maxine Greene
• NYC Commissioner Martha Hirst
• Nadia Comeneci-olympic medallist
• Cynthia Nixon, actress, public education advocate
• Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert Kennedy and human rights advocate
• Jane Goodall
• President Nancy Ploeger, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce