After spending nearly 15 years at the New York Times, where she served as deputy international editor and bureau chiefs for West Africa, South Asia and Johannesburg, Lydia Polgreen was named editor-in-chief of HuffPost in 2016. She received the 2006 George Polk Award for foreign reporting and the 2008 Livingston Award for international reporting.

Before winning a seat as U.S. senator for Nebraska, Ben Sasse earned a PhD in American history from Yale and at age 37 became president of Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska. Senate committees Sasse has served on include Judiciary; Armed Services; Joint Economics; and Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Shannon Hateley is a computational biologist and senior staff scientist at Ancestry.com. She received her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology with a designated emphasis in Genomics and Computational Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Joshua Rogers is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Arete Wealth, the financial investment entity within the Arete family of companies. He is an elected Board Member with oversight of the university’s Finance, Investment, and Audit committees and teaches Entrepreneurship on both St. John’s Annapolis and Sante Fe campuses.

Anika Prather is the founder and creator of the Living Water School. Inspired by the Sudbury democratic model, Living Water is based upon the idea that students should be responsible for and direct their own learning. She received her PhD in English and Literacy Education from the University of Maryland.

Mark Stephen Meadows is founder and CEO of Botanic Technologies, which designs personalized chatbots and 3D avatars for Fortune 100 clients such as Skype and Logitech, as well as for government agencies.

Sean Di Ianni is chief operating officer of Meow Wolf, a world-renowned interactive art space in Santa Fe. There, he oversees organizational structure, systems and processes, and the management of artistic and logistical concerns for individuals and the organization. In the last 12 months, Meow Wolf has announced new permanent installations in Denver, Las Vegas, and Washington, DC and was named one of Time Out’s Top Fifty Things to Do in the World Right Now, coming in at No. 4.

Omar Manejwala, MD (A93) is an international expert and speaker in the fields of addiction and mental health. He is the author of Craving: Why We Can’t Seem to Get Enough and currently serves as the senior vice president and chief medical officer of Catasys. He is a recipient of the 2018 Award of Merit from the St. John’s College Alumni Association.

Pressure Analysis Company (PAC) designs and manufactures wireless impact sensors that detect and track direct impacts with the highest sensitivity and accuracy. Their first product, SmackCAP Athlytics™, is a skullcap for athletes in contact sports that tracks every hit, every time. Pressure Analysis was one of 15 companies chosen to pitch at SXSW's 2016 TechCo.'s StartUp Night and was a finalist for the Tech.Co StartUp of the Year Award.

Robert A. George is an editorial writer and blogger. He is an editorial board member of The New York Daily News, and published in the New York Post, the Huffington Post, and the National Review, among others.

A Hampton University professor of nuclear, quantum, and medical physics and a group leader at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Keppel was recently chosen to receive a St. John’s College Alumni Association Award of Merit. Among Keppel’s many professional accolades is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a 2019 Distinguished Lecturer on the Application of Physics award from the American Physical Society, where she is a fellow.

Salvatore Scibona is a novelist and short story writer who has been nominated for the National Book Award for his 2008 novel The End. His latest book, The Volunteer, came out in 2019, and his fiction frequently appears in The New Yorker—where he also published an excellent article about St. John’s called “Where I Learned to Read.”

As founder of the Napa-based Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Warren Winiarski garnered international attention in the 1970s when he produced a wine that bested French competitors in the famous Judgment of Paris blind taste test. A bottle of the winning vintage has been displayed at the Smithsonian. In 2017, he was inducted into the California Hall of Fame.

Producer, director, and screenwriter Lee Zlotoff is best known for creating the TV series MacGyver, which ran from 1985 to 1992 on ABC. The 1996 film The Spitfire Grill, which he wrote and directed, won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.

While he was still a student at St. John’s in 1950, Jac Holzman founded Elektra Records. Music acts he signed include Josh White, The Doors, Queen, Love, Carly Simon, the Stooges, MC5, Harry Chapin and Bread. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011 and is now senior technology advisor to Warner Music Group.