Linsey Abrams
" 'Be accurate. Go deeper.' Four words from Grace Paley that opened the road between myself and the reader. Between myself and myself.” 

Adele Ademola
Adele is a student of the BFA in Sonic Arts program.

Emmanuel Alexandre

Aalia Ali
“A bonus of being a Muslim Jewish Studies major is that after the moment passes when someone thinks of it as an oxymoron, I’ve just broken a stereotype” 

Jay-Sheree Allen
“We, as women, don’t realize we are holding each other back by not sharing our stories with each other.” 

Kianny N. Antigua
“There is an anxiety, a tension when I have an idea for a story. It doesn’t let me breathe. Even if it is just the title, one line, or the ending, I have to write it.”   

Lynn Appelbaum
Under Lynn Applebaum's leadership, the Advertising/PR program has grown four fold in as many years and now numbers 400. 

Michelle Ayoub
My university experience at City College has so far been stimulating on many levels. I would never have imagined that the same little girl who had become so distanced from her ethnicity would one day be studying Arabic at university. 

Carmen Vidal Balanzat
If you like telling stories through image and sound, you might ask Carmen what CCNY's MFA in Media Arts Production can do for you. 

Myrah Brown Green
Dr. Myrah Brown Green, Distinguished Lecturer of Art at City College is an art historian, fiber/surface designer and quilt artist whose work has featured in numerous publications and exhibitions. She was one of 44 artists selected to produce a quilt work for the inauguration of President Obama. 

Mariola Bruszewska
Mariola’s pull to the visual arts is powerful and constant. She feels she is in the right place at the right time, the perfect place. “All of my experience in City College made me stronger, more mature, ready to take risks.” 

Abe Burrows
After graduating from City College and New York University he was employed as a runner on Wall Street and in an accounting firm.  After he met Frank Gale in 1938, the two wrote and sold jokes to an impressionist who appeared on the Rudy Vallée radio program. 

Ivan Butka
Ivan Bukta was born in Novi Sad, Serbia. After growing up through wars, poverty and upheavals in his country, he followed his passion and a lifelong dream to become a student of Film and Video Production at the City College of New York. 

Richard Calichman
“The great thing about City College is its fascinating student body."  

Aidan Carroll
After completing the prestigious 2006 Banff International Music and Jazz Workshop, the City College jazz performance program just seemed like a natural to Aidan Carroll. 

Rebecca Carter
“It was here that the classroom became almost a sacred setting, where abstract concepts were slowly unpacked with prudent inquiry”. 

Marcus Childs Moore
"(My professors) provided a nurturing environment and were consistently available to me and others. Their passion for music and education is evident inside and outside the classroom." 

Ryan DeGrandy
Ryan is a BA in Music Major.

David Del Tredici
Mr. Del Tredici was a child piano prodigy who gave his professional debut at 17 with the San Francisco Symphony. In his formal training, he earned degrees at the University of California (Berkeley) and Princeton University 

Luisa Fuentes
Liusa made the dean’s list at City College on three occasions and in 2008 was the recipient of a James Dinan Scholarship to attend Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, a prestigious fine arts school in Brittany, France. 

Ben Gazzara
Ben attended New York City's Stuyvesant High School finding respite from the poor, crime-laden streets by joining a theater company and then enrolling in City College of New York to study electrical engineering 

Vivian Gornick
”I entered college, and somewhere in my junior year something interesting happened: a drama of internal anguish that subsumed all else began to unfold…In no time at all an unimagined universe of interiority opened before me…Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit to which all human beings are heir.” 

Keith Grant
Professor Keith Grant did voice-over work for Ken Burns' acclaimed documentary, Jazz and for the instructional video that accompanies the above-mentioned Jazz Dance text. 

Vera Grant
Vera Grant, a member of the class of 1995, was the first City College undergraduate to win a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship for Study Abroad in 1996-1997.

William Green
Following a very successful academic path at City College William Hallett Green (now as Greeny) encountered discrimination when he tried to enter the US Army Signal Service.

Fadila Habchi
"My goal is to teach and do research.  I’d love to return to CCNY and teach.”

Bernard Warren Harleston
In his inaugural address delivered in the Great Hall he articulated the importance of the liberal arts which teach “that the price of freedom of choice is personal accountability.”  

Michael Hattem
“I’ve been very fortunate, and I’ve benefited immensely from the outstanding faculty here.” 

Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and other novels and was the first US Latino writer to receive the Pulitzer Prize in literature. 

Brandon Hollely
Brandon is a student of the BFA in Sonic Arts Program.

Stephen Jablonsky
Stephen believes that the academic environment should be a happy place where the adventure of learning is celebrated. 

Ava Jarden
Ava is currently finishing the score for Cicada Sonata “a minimalist music concrete work distantly referencing the stringent classical form". 

Jeremy Joffee
Silver medal for CCNY alum at 2009 Student Oscars and another success for Film Program at CCNY.

Piotr Kajstura
Polish immigrant Piotr Kajstura was working on campus when he heard an African folktale from a fellow student at The City College of New York about magic and its uplifting effect on a group of slaves in the antebellum South. 

Andrzej Krakowski
Krakowski feels that both the BFA and MFA programs are the hidden gems of City College and of film education nationwide. 

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Craig Levinsky
Craig feels all his writing is a quest for a moral center, and fair judgment, too.  "Either I'm looking to get into heaven or I need acceptance from my family," he says. 

Ning Li

Frank Loesser (1910-1969)
Frank Loesser wrote musical comedies and lyrics to songs that would become emblematic of mid-century, post-war, American culture and gusto.

Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud, a CCNY alum, was a fine writer of short stories and novels who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Fixer in 1966.

Laura Malandrino
This Venezuelan advertising major worked for many years in her native country as an editor in the arts, culture and the fashion world, but felt compelled to continue her studies in the US. 

Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez, an Advertising and PR major & 2007 graduate, proved to be a dynamic student and mentor, winning two awards in her final semester. 

Leah McCormack
Leah has decided to move to Nicaragua in July 2008 to spend the next year living frugally while she writes her first novel. 

Kyle Meyer
2009 winner plans to start a fund or scholarship program for children affected by AIDS.  

Mark Mirsky
Mark has taught at City College since 1965 and was the prime mover in establishing the MA in Creative Writing, which attracted distinguished students like Walter Mosley and the Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Hijuelos. 

Hajoe Moderegger
Many of Hajoe's projects as part if the eteam involves buying random pieces of land on eBay (a cultural experiment in its own right) and then activating the possibilities that are inherent in the site as the eteam envisage them, creating temporary realities and presenting such realities through video, websites and large-scale installations.

Walter Mosley
"We are fascinated with stories of crime, real or imagined, because we need them to cleanse the modern world from our souls." 

Janet Na
Janet is a 2008 graduate of the BFA in Sonic Arts program.

Sean Nerney
Sean is an alumnus of the BFA in Sonic Arts Program.

Melissa Oden
"I believe there is a story in every moment. I invite the viewer into my reality where everyday scenes are re-examined and transformed into psychologically charged and distorted environments. My inspiration is derived from observing the life that surrounds me in New York ." 

Folake Olowofoyeku
The role that won the Nigerian-born Folake Olowofoyeku the Best Actress Award at the 2007 ReelHeART International Film Festival in Toronto was written by fellow CCNY student Piotr Kajstura. 

John Patitucci
John Patuttici began playing the electric bass at age 10, composing and performing at age 12, playing the acoustic bass at age 15 and the piano at age 16. He quickly moved from playing soul and rock to blues, jazz and classical music. 

Agnes Peña
“CWE gets you to think and question things a little more deeply and a little more importantly.” 

Luis (Lou) Perez
In addition to his fiction and poetry, Luis both writes and performs for stage, film, television, and the Internet with collaborator Greg Burke (Late Night with Conan O’Brien). 

Jonathan Perl
Before attending City College to study for an MFA in Performance Jonathan studied theory, harmony and jazz at Hunter College as well as composing and playing in the New York music scene.   

Georgios Pesios
Born in Bulgaria and raised in a household where music was a constant presence, the pursuit of a music career seemed like a natural choice for Georgios Pesios. 

Georgios Pesios
Georgios is a 2008 graduate of the BFA in Sonic Arts program.

Maquita Peters
After working in the Barbados as a print and broadcast journalist Maquita wanted to strengthen her academic background and to branch into Public Relations.  

Yolanda Pividal
Yolanda Pividal, a June 2007 graduate of CCNY’s M.F.A. in Media Arts Production program, won the $10,000 Fledgling Fund Award for Emerging Latino Filmmakers from the Independent Feature Project (IFP) for her thesis project “Tijuana Nada Mas.” 

Ernesto Quiñonez
“I wanted to be a painter, but I wasn't that good. I actually came [to City College] for data processing. But I ended up taking all these English courses and before I knew it, I was like this, this sounds like a nice religion.”

Emily Raboteau
Emily's perspective on writing is "that at its best, it's play, at its worst, it's agony, and that most of the time it's a combination of the two. I find it hard to do." 

Gareth Rhodes
“We, as women, don’t realize we are holding each other back by not sharing our stories with each other.” 

Frederick Bertrand Robinson
Frederick Bertrand Robinson was the first graduate of the College from the class of 1904 and former faculty member to become the President. He had earned a doctorate from New York University and displayed artistic flair by playing the cello, etching, and sculpting.

Pablo Rodriguez
Pablo feels the Art Department at City is so good "because you get to learn more than simply how to do great design on a computer but how to do hands-on work" 

Ina Saltz
Ina Saltz was one of the first art directors to work on a computer at Time Inc's Teletext Project, the precursor of the web. 

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Doron Schächter
Everything that Doron learned, both as a violin and music student as well as an audio and technology student, helped him to land a position as Associate Producer at the classical music label Bridge Records and an internship at the New York Philharmonic. 

Harold Schechter
Kirkus Reviews called Schechter's Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment. "...smart and enlivening...A bloody fine riposte to those who would censor with clouded hindsight and muddy reasoning." 

Christa Schneider
Writing comes like the wind. It's naked, it's made of ink, it's the thing written, and it passes like nothing else passes in life, nothing more, except life itself." 

Upton Sinclair
"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit in the stomach." - Pulitzer Prize winner and City College alum, UUpton Sinclair on his book The Jungle. 

Hasie Sirisena
Gifted MFA (English) alum, Hasanthika Sirisena, secures $25,000 writer's award.  

Robert Studley
Robert is a 2009 graduate of the BA in Music.

Zita Szatmary
After graduation Zita aims to work for a non-profit organization “where I could combine my artistic skills and social sensitivity to encourage / create social change through art in the tradition of Tibor Kalman, Phil Borges and WITNESS” 

Nancy R. Tag
“Professor Tag has been a great mentor during these past years.  She’s always ready to help you take your thinking to the next level,” says graduate Laura Malandrino. 

Anne Tan
"CCNY enriched my life in many ways… I owe my growing self-confidence to my CCNY education." 

Neal G. Ten Eyck
Neal is President of the Cinema Society in City College and plans on being awarded money to produce a feature film, followed world recognition. "I mean that's what you get after a BFA, right?" 

Brian Trent
Brian grew up in Syracuse, New York and began playing guitar at the age of 13 and as he says himself he has been obsessed with music ever since. 

Frederic Tuten
''Fred is as passionate as his characters. He lives for passion and for the love of beauty. He's a beautifully written person." -- David Salle

Robert Ushiro
Robert Ushiro is from Granada Hills, Southern California and is a senior in the Electronic Design and Multimedia BFA at City College. He misses the west coast but loves the energy of the east coast which he feels helps push him forward towards his goal of becoming an animator. 

Amy Veach
“The first time I saw City College’s webpage, I knew I had found the school I was looking for. The writing program was reputable, it had a strong literature component, the tuition was accessible, and most importantly, it was in New York City.” Her later visits to the campus only confirmed that City College was the right choice for her. 

Wendy Wasserstein
"Her heroines -- intelligent and successful but also riddled with self-doubt …their hard-earned sense of self-worth was often shadowed by the frustrating knowledge that American women's lives continued to be measured by their success at capturing the right man," wrote Charles Isherwood.

Horace Webster (1849-1869)
General Horace Webster was a teacher, presiding officer, and disciplinarian who believed in the educational “experiment [that] is to be tried, whether the highest education can be given to the masses, whether the children of the whole people can be educated.”  

Jerome Weidman
Jerome Weidman (April 4, 1913, New York City - October 6, 1998, New York City) was a playwright and novelist who shared a Pulitzer Prize in Drama for collaboration with George Abbott (on the book for the musical Fiorello!), Jerry Bock (music), and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics).

Gregory Williams
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by CCNY President Gregory Williams has sold some 200,000 copies and led to appearances on Oprah and Larry King Live. 

Dominik Wisniewski
Because of Dominik’s interest in art and design he works hard to familiarize himself with graphic programs and techniques and supplements his advertising major with classes in drawing, photography and design.