Colby graduates make a difference, wherever they end up. Alumni have gone on to notable careers in the arts, science, medicine, law, business, education, and government. Here are profiles of just a few:

Linda Greenlaw ’83, English
Author of best-selling memoirs The Hungry Ocean, The Lobster Chronicles, and All Fishermen Are Liars. Described in The Perfect Storm as “one of the best [commercial fishing] captains, period, on the entire East Coast.”

Peter Hart ’64, History
President of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a leading public opinion research organization. Frequent commentator on national politics and director of Wall Street Journal/NBC News polling.

Alice Domar ’80,  Psychology and Biology
Director of the Center for Women’s Health, Mind/Body Medical Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and author.

Mari Masuda ’00, Computer Science
Lt. (jg) in the U.S. Navy. Masuda flies Sea Hawk helicopters off of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.

Kent Wommack ’77, Government
Executive director, The Nature Conservancy in Australia
Kent Wommack combined a government degree from Colby, a master’s from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and a reverence for nature into a career that transformed the practice of land conservation. In 1998 he engineered the largest land conservation initiative in The Nature Conservancy’s history and “raised the bar on what was thinkable and changed the scale of conservation” in America, according to Down East magazine. Now he’s moved to Australia to begin a Nature Conservancy there.

Gregory Ciottone ’87, Biology, Chemistry-Biochemistry
Emergency room physician and Harvard Medical School faculty member. Ciottone founded the nonprofit Emergency Medicine Visions International to help improve emergency medical care delivery and disaster response worldwide. He was among the first to be called to work at the World Trade Center disaster site.

Traci Speed ’03, Chemistry: Cell and Molecular Biology/Biochemistry
Won an American Association of Cancer Research award as undergraduate. Currently in the M.D./Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins.

Dan Harris ’93, Government
ABC News correspondent
After graduation, Dan Harris started filing stories for the NBC television affiliate in Bangor and quickly moved through the ranks—as news anchor for Maine’s NBC affiliates, later at New England Cable News Network, and now as a regular correspondent on ABC’s World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and Nightline. Harris reported from Ground Zero in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, from Afghanistan and Iraq in wartime, and from Pakistan and Israel.

Annie Proulx ’57, English
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Shipping News, the PEN/Faulkner award-winning novel Postcards, the short story Brokeback Mountain and three collections of short stories.

Savas Zembillas ’79, English and Philosophy  
Bishop of Troas, Greek Orthodox Church, and chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

Thomas Warren ’82, Biology: Environmental Science
Policy analyst with the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Northeast Region Office. His division, Sustainable Fisheries, is responsible for the management of commercial and recreational fisheries in federal waters stretching from Maine to North Carolina.

Mahdi Bseiso ’04, Computer Science
Analyst, Deloitte & Touche, Analytic and Forensic Technology Division.

Alan Taylor ’77, History
Historian, author, and professor of history at the University of California at Davis. Taylor’s book William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes.

Patricia Davis Murphy ’68, Physics
Pioneering geneticist specializing in cancer research, president and CEO of GeneWise
After Patricia Murphy cared for her sister, Barbara, who died of ovarian cancer at age 24, Murphy decided to go into genetics—“to find out the basis of her disease.” With a Ph.D. in human genetics and post-doctoral work at Yale Medical School, she succeeded in producing the first blueprint of a healthy BRCA1 gene—a gene where mutations result in a high likelihood of breast, ovarian, prostate, or colon cancer.

Mary Schwalm ’99, American Studies
National photo editor for the Associated Press. Worked for the AP at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Robert E. Diamond Jr. ’73, Economics
Chief Executive, Barclays Capital, a major international investment bank.

Barbara Coulon ’94, Art and Administrative Science
Director of Trends at Youth Intelligence, a New York marketing consulting firm.

Mehmet Darmar ’90, Math: Computer Science
CEO of Mobilkom—Turkey’s biggest telecommmunications company.

Nozomi Kishimoto ’96, International Studies and East Asian Studies
Trader, Deutsche Securities Limited
A native of Kobe, Japan, Nozomi Kishimoto can rattle off the names of several American Colby graduates who are colleagues in the Tokyo Branch of Deutsche Securities Limited. Kishimoto is a trader in the Global Finance Division. Before signing on with Deutsche Securities she worked for Unum Insurance in San Francisco and Japan and for Thomson Financial.

Hannah Beech ’95, English and International Studies
Shanghai Bureau Chief, Time magazine. As a student Beech did internships at U.S. News & World Report and with Asian television and newspapers, and she spent a semester in Hong Kong studying the Chinese print media’s coverage of Asian governments.

Henry J. Sockbeson III ’73, Government
Tribal attorney for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, working in the tribal offices in Ledyard, Conn.

Michael Federle ’81, English
Publisher, Fortune magazine. Previously worked for People and Life.

Greg Cronin ’86, History/American Studies
Coach of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. Honored as coach of an American Hockey League all-star team in 2004.

Michael Daisey ’96, Performing Arts
Actor, satirist, and star of his own one-man off-Broadway show, “21 Dog Years: Doing Time@Amazon.com.” In an upbeat New York Times review, the show is described as a lampoon of the contemporary corporate culture spawned by the dot-com boom . . . and Daisey as reminiscent of “Chris Farley, Jack Black, and the evil doll Chucky.”

Elizabeth Allan ’74, East Asian Studies
Senior vice president, Scudder Kemper Investments. After a junior year in Japan, a couple of master’s degrees, an M.B.A., and four years living in Japan, Allen’s understanding of Asia and Asian markets turned to gold. She worked for the Japanese firm Nomura Securities before opening Scudder’s first Tokyo office in 1987.

Krishan Jhalani ’99, International Studies/German
Associate program manager, Populations Services International, an international public health NGO.