Notable Figures

Gwen Margolis was a Florida Democratic politician who made history as the first woman to serve as President of the Florida Senate. Read her full biography, career, family life, and lasting legacy.

James Mobberley is an American composer and music educator who won the Rome Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship. His music has received over 1,400 performances worldwide. Read his full biography here.

Bobojon Gafurov was a Tajik historian, academician and statesman who transformed how the world understood Central Asian history. Learn about his life, education, career, and landmark works including The Tajiks.

Lawrence O'Donnell occupies a specific and unusual position in American political media — he is one of the very few prime-time cable news hosts who has actually worked inside the political system he spends his evenings analyzing. His years…

Ibukun Awosika is one of the most accomplished and widely respected business leaders in Nigeria — an entrepreneur, corporate executive, speaker, and author whose career spans the furniture and interior design industry, financial services,…

Sylvia Nasar is an American journalist, author, and academic whose career bridges the world of financial journalism and literary biography in ways that very few writers manage with equal success in both. Her biography of the Nobel laureate…

Emily Jashinsky is an American conservative political commentator, journalist, and media critic whose career has taken her from campus journalism and think tank work to prominent positions in conservative media — including Culture Editor at…

Not many people can claim they spent thirty years in elite special operations forces, ran a fifth-generation family farm, and then upended one of the most entrenched incumbents in American politics — all before turning seventy. Ed Gallrein…

Dr. Farzad Mostashari is an Iranian-American physician, health policy expert, and entrepreneur whose career has placed him at the center of one of the most ambitious and consequential transformations in American healthcare — the shift from…

There is a particular kind of pressure that comes with being the son of a legend. Richard Momoima Onyonka has lived with that pressure for his entire public life — and by most measures, he has not just survived it, but built a formidable…