Alumni of Distinction
Some of the most influential people and orchestrators of change in our world once navigated the hundreds of steps at Holy Cross. Your time on the Hill will prepare you for any career--whether in the Supreme Court of the United States or the offices of small non-profits.
Our alumni have worked within the Oval Office and have won Emmy Awards and Pulitzer Prizes. They’re medical professionals, teachers, activists, and community leaders. No matter the path, Holy Cross alumni are called to live for and with others and to pursue work that makes a difference.
Healthcare & Science
Co-Founder, E2SG Partners and former executive chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Ecolab
Past chairman, American Hospital Association; longtime hospital-system CEO.
Permanent dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and chief academic officer (CAO) for Tufts Medicine; She is internationally known for her research on infections in immunocompromised patients and infections by S. aureus, one of the most dangerous of the staph bacteria, for which she has investigated new anti-infective agents.
Termeer Professor of Bioengineering in MIT's Department of Biological Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering & Science; recipient of the MacArthur Fellow in 2003
Chancellor of UMass Medical School and a fellow of the American College of Physicians
Former president of the Society for Neuroscience, Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry, emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, and was chairman of the Consolidated Department of Psychiatry at Harvard 1991-2001
Mass General Brigham System Chair of Surgery (2025); Moseley Professor of Surgery, Harvard.
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health from 1984 to 2022; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
First director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Surgeon-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Tufts Medical Center. Professor of Surgery and Benjamin Andrews Chair of Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Physician and former NASA astronaut who was the first physician to be selected for astronaut training and served as science-pilot for the Skylab 2 mission in 1973
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for the first successful kidney transplant; elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine and was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which advises the Vatican on science issues.
Chair of the department of pediatrics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering; conducted the first successful bone marrow transplant involving an unrelated, compatible donor; co-developed an approach now used throughout the world to effectively treat children born without an immune system (once known as “bubble babies”)
Medical oncologist, Texas Oncology-Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center
First Director of the National Institutes of Health, elected to National Academy of Sciences (1965), awarded the National Medal of Science by President Gerald R. Ford (1974)
Emergency physician, Kentucky Commissioner of Public Health and past president of the American Medical Association.
Former scientific director of the National Cancer Institute who played a prominent role in the introduction of chemotherapy for cancer
Media & Communications
Sports columnist, The New York Times; recipient of Pulitzer Prize in 1981
Dale is a longtime legal affairs writer, often focusing on the federal judiciary, gender law, #MeToo and NFL player concussions. Her work unsealing Bill Cosby’s testimony in a decade-old deposition led to his arrest and sexual assault trials. She was part of a team at the Associated Press nominated as a Pulitzer finalist for Breaking News in 2024 for their coverage of the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.
Political commentator; former director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama
Editorial cartoonist, Chicago Sun-Times; winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1989
Writer, producer, and television personality; editor-at-large for Esquire magazine and host of a number of podcasts, including “Homophilia” and “International Waters”
Author who was recognized with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his book "The Known World;" recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004; member, American Academy of Arts and Letters
President of Content, ESPN.
Journalist; longtime host of MSNBC’s Hardball.
Boston Globe columnist; J.G. Taylor Spink Award (Baseball Hall of Fame writers’ wing).
Longtime foreign correspondent at The Washington Post (deputy foreign editor), Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times; recipient of the Maria Moors Cabot Award, the most prestigious recognition for coverage of the Americas.
Sports columnist, analyst, author and founder of The Ringer, a sports and pop culture website and podcast network
President of CNBC and the former President and Managing Director, NBC Universal Global Advertising & Partnerships
