Shonda Rhimes is an award-winning television creator, producer and author, as well as the CEO of the global media company, Shondaland. Rhimes is the first woman to create three television dramas—Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and Scandal—that have achieved the 100-episode milestone. For five TV seasons, award-winning Shondaland shows Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder occupied ABC's entire Thursday night schedule, creating a powerful brand well-known to fans and advertisers as TGIT.

In 2017, Rhimes shifted the entertainment industry's business model when she left network television to exclusively produce streaming content in partnership with Netflix. Bridgerton, Shondaland's first scripted series with the streamer, has become a worldwide franchise. Seasons of Bridgerton currently hold three of the ten top spots among English language programming for Netflix. Rhimes also scripted the popular Bridgerton prequel series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, limited series Inventing Anna based on the popular New York Magazine article about the fake German heiress, Anna Delvey. Rhimes also executive produced Netflix's recent The Residence, starring Emmy award winner Uzo Aduba, as well as documentaries Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker, highlighting the legendary choreographer Debbie Allen and Black Barbie which chronicles the creation of the first-ever black Barbie doll.

Shonda Rhimes is a New York Times best-selling author for her memoir Year of Yes and has built multi-platform partnerships with such leading brands as Dove, Peloton, St. John, Masterclass, Microsoft and Mattel.

Rhimes is also the founder of The Rhimes Foundation, whose mission is to support arts, education and activism. She serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations—including the American Film Institute, the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, Dartmouth College, Lincoln Center and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. In addition, Rhimes is on special committees for the USC Film Council and the Obama Foundation.

Rhimes' has three times been included in the TIME 100 list of most influential people, has been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her service to US / UK relations and her work has been celebrated with numerous awards including induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.

Mindy Kaling '01 is an Emmy-nominated writer, producer, New York Times best-selling author, director, actor and Tony award winner. At 24, Kaling joined the eight-person writing staff at NBC's The Office and became the first woman of color to be nominated for an Emmy in any writing category.

Kaling is the prolific creator and executive producer behind the hit series The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever, The Sex Lives of College Girls, and most recently, Running Point, which was renewed for a second season in one of the fastest pick-ups by Netflix to date. Kaling is currently working on a half-hour comedy for Hulu. 

Kaling received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this February. In 2023, she received the Producers Guild of America's Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television and the same year, was honored with the National Medal of Arts by the White House. In 2013, Kaling was named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People, and in 2022, Kaling International was named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies.

CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper '91 joined the network in January 2013. Tapper currently anchors an award-winning two-hour weekday program, The Lead with Jake Tapper, which debuted in March 2013. He has hosted CNN's Sunday morning show, State of the Union, since June 2015. In April 2021, he became the lead anchor for CNN for Washington, D.C. events.

Tapper imparts his political expertise on State of the Union by conducting interviews with top newsmakers on politics and policy, covering Washington, the country and the world. The Lead, which has won two Emmy awards and been nominated for best live news broadcast, covers headlines from around the country and the globe, the top stories in national and international news, politics, health, money, the environment, sports and popular culture, and concentrates on bringing stories that aren't found on front pages—buried leads—to the forefront.

Tapper has been a widely respected reporter in the nation's capital for more than 20 years. His reporting on the 2016 election has been recognized with a number of awards, including a 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism, the Los Angeles Press Club's Presidents Award for Impact on Media, the John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association, and The Canadian Journalism Foundation's Tribute to Exemplary Journalism.

Additionally, in October 2022, Tapper penned The Atlantic's cover story "This Is Not Justice: A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment," advocating for the release of CJ Rice, a Philadelphia teenager wrongfully convicted of attempted homicide in 2013. The piece subsequently led to CJ's release from prison and stands as one of the most consequential pieces of journalism in Tapper's career. He is a member of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees.