Emmy award winning writer, performer, director, producer

Executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists—keepers of the "doomsday clock"

Blues musician and bandleader

Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter

Illinois State Representative

United States Secretary of Education

Renowned astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Crafoord Prize, and MacArthur "genius" award winner

Chicago Alderman

Former director of the school of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater