Editing Hunter College (section)

===Government, politics, and social issues===
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*[[Rabab Abdulhadi]] (born 1955), Palestinian-born American scholar, activist, educator, editor, and an academic director.
* [[Bella Abzug]] (1942) – Congresswoman (1971–1977), women's rights advocate, political activist
* [[Charles Barron]] – [[New York City Council]] member
* [[Keiko Bonk]] – Activist, artist, politician, and highest-ranking elected [[Green Party (United States)|Green Party]] member in the United States
* [[Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick]] (1963) – Judge, first Hispanic woman named to the [[New York Court of Appeals|New York State Court of Appeals]]
* [[Eileen Bransten]] (1975) – Justice, [[New York Supreme Court]]
* [[Helene S. Coleman]] (1925) – President, [[National Council of Jewish Women]]
* [[Robert R. Davila]] (1965) – President, [[Gallaudet University]] and advocate for the rights of the hearing impaired
* [[Susan Elizabeth Frazier]] (1888) – first Black teacher at integrated schools in New York City
* [[Martin Garbus]] (1955) – First Amendment attorney
* [[Sonia Guiñansaca]] (2014) – poet, cultural organizer, and social justice activist
* [[Paula Harper]] – art historian
* [[Florence Howe]] (1950) – Founder of women's studies and founder/publisher of the Feminist Press/CUNY
* [[Teresa Patterson Hughes]] – California State Senator
* [[Mary Johnson Lowe]] (1951) – Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York]]
* [[Roger Manno]] – Maryland politician
* [[Soia Mentschikoff]] (1934) – law professor who worked on the [[Uniform Commercial Code]]; first woman partner of a major law firm; first woman elected president, [[Association of American Law Schools]]
* [[Thomas J. Murphy, Jr.]] (1973) – Mayor, [[Pittsburgh]], 1994–2006
* [[Pauli Murray]] (1933) – first African-American woman named an Episcopal priest; human rights activist; lawyer and co-founder of N. O. W.
* [[Thomas P. Noonan, Jr.]] – [[Medal of Honor]]; [[United States Marine Corps]], Vietnam
* [[Antonia Pantoja]] – [[Puerto Rican people|Puerto Rican]] community leader, founder of [[Boricua College]]
* [[Thomas S. Popkewitz]] – Professor of curriculum theory, [[University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education]]
* [[Jeanette Reibman]] (1937) – Pennsylvania State Representative and State Senator
*[[Sandra Schnur]] – [[disability rights|disability rights advocate]]
* [[Larry Seidlin]] – [[Broward County, Florida]] Judge, presided over [[Anna Nicole Smith]]'s estate
* [[Donna Shalala]] – [[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services]] under [[Bill Clinton]]; tenth president of Hunter College (1980–1988)
* [[John Timoney (police chief)|John Timoney]] – [[Chief of Police]] of Miami, Florida
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