Gallatin undergraduates are committed to distinctive and unique educational endeavors. This drive is nurtured by Gallatin faculty and advisers and allows students to develop the necessary skills to become creative thinkers and eclectic career-builders. Gallatin alumni include film directors, CEOs, composers, attorneys, journalists, physicians, architects, Academy and Tony Award-winners, best-selling authors, and more. Alumni work in a variety of fields from law, media, PR and marketing to film, fashion, non-profits, and journalism. Below you will find alumni from various Gallatin cohorts; click on their profile links to learn more about each of these amazing alums.
At GallatinStudied at NYU Accra and conducted research in Berlin, Germany, as a Gallatin Global Fellow in Urban Practice
Post GallatinA 2016 Marshall Scholar; Master of Science in Sustainable Urbanism and Master of Public Administration and Management from University College London. Worked as a 2020 Census Project Manager for City & County of San Francisco’s Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs
At GallatinParticipated in the Gallatin Film Festival, mounted theatrical productions, and was a recipient of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research, the Gallatin Undergraduate Research Fund, and an NYU Green Grant
Post GallatinWrote and directed the feature film, Mickey and the Bear
At GallatinPerformed in several theater productions, including Hamlet (2013), The Rape of Lucrece (2014), and Amphitryon (2015); member of the Gallatin Theatre Troupe as an actor and writer
Post GallatinActed in film and television productions, including Kings, This is Us, and Love, Victor
At GallatinBuilt multiple businesses, including a multimedia film company, and promoted the Albert Gallatin Founder's Fund, a fund that supports entrepreneurial student projects
Post GallatinWorks as a investment strategist in business and media
At GallatinWorked at the Economic Development Agency for the US Department of Commerce
Post GallatinHarvard’s Kennedy School, MA in Public Policy; worked for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
At GallatinFilmed, wrote, and directed Night (2016) as a senior project
Post GallatinFilmed, wrote, and directed the short film Thin Ice, the web pilot Gappies, the web series #FitGirls, and 2020’s Featured Extra. Wrote a feature screenplay, Sunshowers
At GallatinWorked as a research assistant for Professor A.B. Huber and published two Op-eds in the New York Times, in 2014 and 2015
Post GallatinA 2016 Rhodes Scholar; MSt in British and European History and an MSt in English and American Studies
At GallatinSenior thesis, "Eudaimonia: Understanding the Good Life," analyzed Aristotle's ethics and the evolution of our interpretation of ethics over time due to changes in art, media, and technology
Post GallatinOpened the Michelin-starred restaurant Sushi Noz
At GallatinRecipient of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research, NYU’s President’s Service Award, and sponsorship from the Women’s Foreign Policy Group; received a Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights where she worked with Beijing’s largest public interest legal NGO
Post GallatinYale Law School, JD
At GallatinPresented “woman is perfect: The Poetry of H.D." at the Senior Symposium
Post GallatinYale University, PhD Program in Literature, with a focus on modern poetics, race, gender, and sexuality studies, post-Enlightenment formulations of reason and irrationality
At GallatinA Gallatin Americas Scholar; also the recipient of the Gallatin Dean’s Award for Summer Research, which allowed her to travel to West Africa and explore the works of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights
Post GallatinUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School, JD
At GallatinFounding member of Slam NYU, competed during the 2012 and 2013 national collegiate championships; appeared on Season 3 of Verses and Flow and was a finalist in the 2011 Women of the World Poetry Slam
Post GallatinMFA from the New School; The January Children won the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets; Stanford University Stegner Fellow
At GallatinCo-chair of the Gallatin Senior Symposium and conducted neuroscience and brain-imaging research on aesthetics at the NYU Center for Brain Imaging
Post GallatinMA and a PhD in Neuroscience and Animal Behavior, Emory University; worked as a Science Policy Analyst at the National Institutes of Mental Health
At GallatinInterned for Teen Vogue, Vogue, and GQ Magazines
Post GallatinEditorial Director and Cultural Consultant and former Chief Content Officer at Teen Vogue and Editor-in-Chief of Out Magazine
At GallatinReceived NYU President’s Service Award for environmental leadership; a Reynolds Scholar and a Udall Foundation Scholar at Gallatin; recipient of a Richard J. Koppenaal Award for Distinguished Interdisciplinary Study; learn more about Kate in our Why Gallatin? video feature
Post GallatinNYU School of Law, JD
At GallatinServed as music chair for NYU’s Program Board, interned at a boutique market research agency, and served as on-air talent for MTVu and Paper magazine’s Paper TV
Post GallatinCo-founder and CEO of Small Girls PR
At GallatinStarted Gallatin’s student entrepreneurship competition, the Albert Gallatin Founders Fund; served as president of the Gallatin Business Club; represented NYU as an Admissions Ambassador; awarded the Gallatin Special Service Award
Post GallatinEngineering Manager at Stack Overflow; founder of Bento
At GallatinEdited and published One Mic, a Lyrics on Lockdown Anthology
Post GallatinCo-Founder and CEO of Allbodies
At GallatinMade the film World Class in Abu Dhabi and wrote Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping Our World
Post GallatinFounded the non-profit Run for America and served as Managing Director at the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma at Mount Sinai and the James Peters Bronx VA
At GallatinCo-founded the Gallatin Honors Program with Kate Fritz (BA ’10).
Post GallatinColumbia University MA and an EdD in Health Education; member of the Recent Alumni Council; learn more about Emma in our Why Gallatin? video feature
At GallatinInterned for Miramax Films, Showtime Networks, The Gersh Agency, New Line Cinema, and NBC Universal
Post GallatinFounder and CEO of MikMak and former Global Director of Digital and Social Media, Gap Inc.
At GallatinSummer Research Associate; gave a TEDxGallatin talk (later called the Senior Symposium) titled, "Science as a Creative Endeavor"
Post GallatinYale University, PhD in theoretical biophysics
At GallatinResearched water scarcity and rural farming in Bhutan; was named the 2013 New Jersey Environmentalist of the Year and a 2013 Governor's Environmental Excellence Award; internships included AmeriCorps and City Growers
Post GallatinExecutive Director of Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization (MEVO)
At GallatinStudied abroad in Cuba with Tisch’s Summer Dance Program; traveled to Vietnam and Brazil as a Gallatin Scholar; co-founded Gallatin’s Dancers/Choreographers Alliance (DCA)
Post GallatinNYU, MA in Performance Studies; University of Texas at Austin, PhD in Social Anthropology; Postdoctoral Associate at Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Assistant Professor
At GallatinStudent Council Member; Student speaker at the Gallatin School Graduation Ceremony and the main NYU Commencement Exercises
Post GallatinNYU School of Law, JD; Legal Director for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending student and faculty rights
At GallatinInterned at Vogue magazine
Post GallatinFirst female Editor-in-Chief of W Magazine
At GallatinStudied in Cuba and South Africa through the NYU Tisch Open Arts Program
Post GallatinHofstra University, JD; Director of the Economic Justice Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law; former Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Bureau of the State of New York’s Office of the Attorney General
At GallatinLed initiative to create community-based model of on-campus HIV screening and prevention
Post GallatinYoungest member of the Massachusetts Senate, representing Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket
Post GallatinHead of Instagram; former Head of Product at Facebook, Vice President of Product Management, and Design Director for Facebook Mobile App
Post GallatinDJ, Producer, and founder of Grammy Award-winning band The Chainsmokers
At GallatinAlbert Gallatin Scholar; NYU Florence study away; co-chair and multi-year participant of the Gallatin Arts Festival
Post GallatinNYU Tisch School of the Arts, MFA, Dramatic Writing; Brooklyn College, MFA, Performing Arts Management; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the 2011 OBIE Award for Best New American Play; 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in the field of Drama and Performance Art; writer and showrunner for Glow and Rent: Live; Gallatin faculty member
Post GallatinUniversity of Southern Maine, MFA, Literature; President of PEN International; Gun Love awarded a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, named a 2018 New York Times Editor’s Choice Book, a 2019 National Book Award finalist, and a TIME magazine top 10 books of 2019
At GallatinVisited Frederick Douglass’s House in Washington, DC, with the Gallatin Dean's Scholars program
Post GallatinColumbia University, MS, Strategic Communications; producer, nominated for two Emmy Awards for the Netflix documentary Reversing Roe; NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series for Being Mary Jane; columnist for The Daily Beast and Huffington Post; NPR contributor; author of Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence and The GQ Candidate
Post GallatinNYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, MA; celebrated concert violinist; named 1988 Artist of the Year by the Japanese government, awarded the 2001 Avery Fisher Prize, and the 2010 Kennedy Center Gold Medal in the Arts; Judge Widney Professor of Music Chair at the University of Southern California; founder, Midori & Friends, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing music to children in New York City
Post GallatinInternationally renowned tap dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher, and director; founder and Artistic Director of Dorrance Dance; awarded a 2015 MacArthur Award; 2011 recipient of the Bessie Award
Post GallatinWinner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for 12 Years a Slave; creator and showrunner of the critically acclaimed ABC series American Crime; writer and director of the documentary film Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992; author of seven novels and regular contributor to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and NPR’s Morning Edition; co-founder, Nō Studios
At GallatinProduced The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at The Actors Studio
Post GallatinCo-founder, CEO, and executive chair of Tribeca Enterprises, a media company that encompasses Tribeca Productions, the Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Studios, and the Tribeca Film Institute; recipient of the 2011 Jane Jacobs Medal for Lifetime Leadership; producer of film and television, including the comedy franchise Meet the Parents; producer and Emmy nominee for When They See Us; producer and Oscar nominee for Best Picture for The Irishman
At GallatinCompleted independent studies at New York Theological Seminary
Post GallatinMemphis Theological Seminary, MA; Religious Studies; Emory University, PhD, Religious Studies, Africana Studies; Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for the Study of American Religion and Slavery, Georgetown University
At GallatinStudied Renaissance Art and Literature in Florence, Italy; attended Gallatin Humanities Seminar in Italy
Post GallatinColumbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, MPH; founder Every Mother Counts, a non-profit organization devoted to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother; directed the film No Woman, No Cry; author of Living Yoga: Creating a Life Practice (Hyperion 2002); 2014 Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people
At GallatinAn Albert Gallatin Scholar
Post GallatinPennsylvania State University College of Medicine, MD and PhD Medicine and Immunology; pediatric hospitalist, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
At GallatinCo-recipient of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Poetry Prize; Editor, The Gallatin Review and The Minetta Review
Post GallatinHead of curation at WaitWhat; adjunct professor in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University; Advisory Editor of The Paris Review; VP/Executive Director of Publicity and a Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster