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Notable AlumniWith more than 195,000 alumni worldwide, LSU ranks in the top 10 percent of the nation in the number of graduates. Vice president of marketing and category management at eBay International, Kip Knight, is an alumnus of E. J. Ourso College of Business. LSU knows animation. LSU alumnus Marty Sixkiller, post technology supervisor at PDI/DreamWorks, was technical director for Shrek the Third, Shrek 2, Over the Hedge and Flushed Away. Source: Internet Movie Database and LinkedIN. Rex Reed, film critic and LSU alumnus, writes an entertainment column, “On the Town with Rex Reed,” for the New York Observer and was a syndicated co-host of the television show At the Movies. Frances Seghers, LSU alumna, is senior vice president of Sony Entertainment European Community Affairs. Sony Entertainment includes Sony Music, Sony Pictures, and Sony Computer Entertainment. Eduardo Aguirre, U.S. Ambassador to Spain, holds a Bachelor of Science degree from LSU. LSU alumna Anita Chang was honored in 2007 as “Woman of Your Year” by Glamour magazine in New York City's Carnegie Hall. The contest asked readers to submit stories about inspirational women in their lives. “Forty-one percent of online readers chose Chang from among the five finalists narrowed from thousands of entries,” a Glamour spokeswoman said. Chang was the youngest person ever hired on the national desk at the Associated Press. HGTV’s Kenneth Brown is Baton Rouge native and 1995 graduate of the College of Art & Design. He owns the Los Angeles-based firm Kenneth Brown Designs but is best known for his HGTV hit show “reDesign.” LSU alumna Donna Brazile was the first African-American to lead to major presidential campaign as campaign manager for Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman in 2000’s presidential run. She is the chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute (VRI), and is the founder/director of Brazile & Associates, LLC, a political consulting firm based in Washington, D.C.
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