14 Notable alumni of Union Institute & University
Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees
Union Institute & University is ranked #4,793 in the world and #1,257 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from Union Institute & University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Union Institute & University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. David Cortright
1946-. (aged 80)
academic
peace activist
non-fiction writer
soldier
David Cortright is an American scholar and peace activist. He is a Vietnam veteran who is currently Professor Emeritus and special adviser for policy studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 22 books. Cortright has a long history...
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2. Elizabeth Lipski
nutritionist
Elizabeth Lipski is an American clinical nutritionist and author of several books on nutrition and digestion including Digestive Wellness in 2005.
3. Phillip Lopate
1943-. (aged 83)
novelist
Phillip Lopate is an American essayist, film critic, fiction writer, and poet.
4. Brother Blue
1921-2009 (aged 88)
street artist
television actor
voice actor
Hugh Morgan Hill, also known as Brother Blue, was an American educator, storyteller, actor, musician, and street performer based principally in the Boston area. After serving as First Lieutenant from 1943 to 1946 in the segregated United States Army in World War II and being honorably discharged, he received a BA from Harvard College in 1948 (cum laude in Social...
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5. Michael Klare
1942-. (aged 84)
political scientist
Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency (Metropolitan). His 2019 book is, All Hell Breaking Loose: the Pentagon's Perspective on Climate...
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6. Gary Dorrien
1952-. (aged 74)
Anglican priest
theologian
Gary John Dorrien is an American social ethicist and theologian. He is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and Professor of Religion at Columbia University, both in New York City, and the author of 25 books on ethics, social theory, philosophy, theology, politics, and intellectual history.
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7. Bernie Krause
1938-. (aged 88)
musician
sound artist
Bernard L. Krause is an American musician and soundscape ecologist. In 1968, he founded Wild Sanctuary, an organization dedicated to the recording and archiving of natural soundscapes. Krause is an author, a bio-acoustician, a speaker, and natural sound artist who coined the terms geophony, biophony, and anthropophony.
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8. Danny K. Davis
1941-. (aged 85)
university teacher
teacher
politician
Daniel K. Davis is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 7th congressional district since 1997. The district includes much of western Chicago, as well as the Loop. It also encompasses several of Chicago's inner western suburbs, such as Bellwood, Oak Park, and River Forest. Davis is a Democrat, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and...
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9. Stanley Aronowitz
1933-2021 (aged 88)
cultural studies scholar
politician
sociologist
Stanley Aronowitz was an American sociologist, trade union official, and political activist. A professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center, his longtime political activism and cultural criticism was influential in the New Left movement of the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond. He was also an advocate for organized labor and a member of the interim...
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10. Portia Simpson-Miller
1945-. (aged 81)
politician
Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller ON is a Jamaican politician who served as Prime Minister of Jamaica from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2016. She was leader of the People's National Party from 2005 to 2017 and Leader of the Opposition from 2007 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2017.
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11. Elizabeth Sackler
1948-. (aged 78)
historian
activist
beauty pageant contestant
Elizabeth Ann Sackler is an American public historian, arts activist, and the daughter of Arthur M. Sackler and descendant of the Sackler family — a family deeply intertwined with the opioid epidemic in the United States of America. She is the founder of the American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation and the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at...
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12. Gary Null
1945-. (aged 81)
film director
nutritionist
anti-vaccine activist
radio personality
Gary Michael Null is an American talk radio host and author who advocates pseudoscientific alternative medicine and produces a line of questionable dietary supplements.
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13. Arnold Mindell
1940-2024 (aged 84)
psychologist
psychotherapist
writer
Arnold Mindell was an American author, therapist, and teacher in the fields of transpersonal psychology, body psychotherapy, social change, and spirituality. He is known for extending Jungian dream analysis to body symptoms, promoting ideas of 'deep democracy,' and interpreting concepts from physics and mathematics in psychological terms. Mindell is the founder of process oriented psychology, or process work, a development...
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14. Jane O'Meara Sanders
1950-. (aged 76)
academic administrator
social worker
Mary Jane O'Meara Sanders is an American social worker, college administrator, activist, and political strategist. She was provost and interim president of Goddard College (1996–1997) and president of Burlington College (2004–2011). In 2017, she founded the think tank The Sanders Institute. She has been married to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders since 1988. She has also served as the first lady...
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