Catherine Crier

Journalist

Catherine Crier earned her B.A. in political science and international affairs from the University of Texas and her Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University School of Law. In 1984, she was elected to the 162nd District Court in Dallas County, Texas as a State District Judge. During her tenure on the bench, Crier also served as Administrative Judge for the Civil District Courts. Shortly after her reelection on the bench, a chance meeting with a television news executive led to a dramatic career change. In 1989, Crier was hired to co-anchor the premiere evening newscast on CNN. Additionally, she co-anchored Inside Politics and hosted Crier & Company. Crier joined ABC News in 1993, where she served as a correspondent and as a regular substitute anchor for Peter Jennings on ABC’s World News Tonight, as well as a substitute host for Ted Koppel’s Nightline. She also worked as a correspondent on 20/20. Crier was awarded a 1996 Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for her work on the segment “The Predators”. In 1996, Crier became one of the founding anchors for the Fox News Channel, The Crier Report. In 1999, Catherine joined Court TV’s distinguished team of anchors. She served as Executive Editor, Legal News Specials, in addition to hosting Catherine Crier Live. She received the prestigious DuPont-Columbia Award for her investigative reporting on the US juvenile justice system. In 2007, she left the network to become a founding partner of Cajole Entertainment. Crier has released several NYTimes bestseller’s, including The Case Against Lawyers: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Bureaucrats Have Turned the Law into an Instrument of Tyranny and What We as Citizens Have to Do About It, as well as A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation.

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Cristina AlberiniNeuroscientist

Cristina Alberini is a professor of neural science at New York University whose research focuses on the identification and characterization of the biological mechanisms that accompany long-term memory formation, storage …

David Z. AlbertPhysicist, Philosopher

David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and a physicist who explores quantum mechanics. He is world-renowned for his insights into philosophical questions about the nature of time, space, and other problems of modern physics.

Andreas AlbrechtTheoretical Cosmologist

Andreas Albrecht is a leading theoretical cosmologist. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 where, with Paul Steinhardt, he wrote one of the original papers on “new” or “slow roll” inflation.

Alan AldaActor, Author, Director

Alan Alda, a seven-time Emmy® Award winner, played Hawkeye Pierce and wrote many of the episodes on the classic TV series M*A*S*H. He has starred in, written, and directed many films, and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Aviator.

Elizabeth AlexanderPoet

Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher, who composed and delivered “Praise Song for the Day” for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Among her many awards was the first Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship for work that “contributes to improving race relations in American society and furthers the broad social goals of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954.”

Stephon AlexanderTheoretical Physicist

Theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander explores unresolved questions about the early universe. Also an accomplished jazz musician, Alexander has collaborated with Grammy Award-winning musician Will Calhoun.

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