List of Mills College people
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The following is a partial list of notable Mills College people. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Mills College.
Alumnae and alumni
- Laurie Anderson - performance artist and musician[1]
- John Bischoff - musician[2]
- Kevin Blechdom - musician[3]
- Renel Brooks-Moon - voice of the San Francisco Giants, first black baseball announcer[4]
- Trisha Brown - choreographer[4]
- Dave Brubeck - musician and composer[4]
- Teresa Blankmeyer Burke - philosopher and bioethicist[4]
- Alice Sudduth Byerly (1855–1904) - temperance activist[5]
- Peggie Castle - actress[6]
- Sharon Cheslow - musician and artist
- King Lan Chew - dancer
- Maya Chinchilla - poet
- Martha Fuller Clark - New Hampshire State Senator
- Sofia Coppola - director [7]
- Elizabeth Crow (1968, B.A.) - editor and journalist[8]
- Eunice Prieto Damron - ceramic artist
- Olivia de Havilland - actress
- Vaughn De Leath
- Paul DeMarinis - artist, musician, composer
- Rosanna Castrillo Diaz - artist
- March Fong Eu - politician[4]
- Claire Falkenstein - sculptor, painter, print-maker and jewelry designer known for her large-scale abstract metal and glass sculptures
- Molissa Fenley - modern dancer[4]
- Noah Georgeson - musician and producer
- Leah Gerber - Professor of Conservation Science at Arizona State University[9]
- Helen Gilbert - artist[10]
- April Catherine Glaspie - diplomat, United States Ambassador to Iraq during the Gulf War[4]
- Michelle Cruz Gonzalez - musician, author
- Beate Sirota Gordon - contributing author, as staff to Douglas MacArthur, of Japanese Constitution[4]
- Peter Gordon - composer
- Ariel Gore - author[4]
- Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson - composer
- Holly Herndon - composer, musician, and sound artist [11]
- Barbara Higbie - musician and composer[12]
- Claire Giannini Hoffman - first woman to serve on the boards of Bank of America and Sears, Roebuck & Company
- Matt Ingalls - composer, clarinetist, software engineer
- Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner - Marshallese poet and climate change activist[13]
- Snatam Kaur - musician and activist
- Bevin Kelley - musician
- Nia King - art activist, multimedia journalist, podcaster, public speaker, and zine maker
- Ron Kuivila - musician and sound artist
- Michael Land - head of LucasArts sound department
- Dorianne Laux - award-winning poet
- Barbara Lee - U.S. Congresswoman for California's 9th Congressional District[4]
- Jiz Lee - queer artist and performer[14]
- May Lee - CNN correspondent
- Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead bassist
- Cheena Marie Lo - poet
- Charmian London - second wife and biographer of Jack London
- Jeffrey Luck Lucas - musician and composer
- Micheline Aharonian Marcom - novelist[15]
- Jerry Martin - composer
- Miya Masaoka - musician and composer
- Elizabeth Murray - painter and MacArthur Fellow[4]
- Amy X. Neuburg - musician and composer
- Joanna Newsom - musician
- Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina - writer
- Thoraya Ahmed Obaid - UN Under-Secretary General[4]
- Margaret Saunders Ott - pianist and music educator
- Diana L. Paxson - author
- Maggi Payne - composer and musician [16]
- Daniella Pineda
- Johanna Poethig – visual, public and performance artist
- Dixy Lee Ray - Governor of Washington and chair of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission[4]
- Steve Reich - composer[4]
- Marc Anthony Richardson - novelist[17]
- Manuel Rocha Iturbide - composer and sound artist
- Ananya Roy - professor of urban studies at UC Berkeley[18]
- Mia Satya (aka Mia Tu Mutch), community organizer and activist[19]
- Beate Sirota - helped write the Japanese constitution
- Irma Tam Soong - historian
- Dana Vespoli - pornographic actress[20]
- Candace Vogler - philosopher
- Gordon Watson - pianist
- Jade Snow Wong - author and artist[4]
- Connie Young Yu - author, historian, and lecturer
Faculty
- Robert Ashley
- Fred Uhl Ball
- Arthur Berger
- Luciano Berio
- John Bischoff[2]
- Chana Bloch
- Lenore Blum
- Domenico Brescia
- Anna Cox Brinton
- Chris Brown[21]
- Dave Brubeck
- John Cage
- Alvin Curran
- Delaine Eastin
- Hettie Belle Ege
- Fred Frith
- Congresswoman Barbara Lee
- Yiyun Li
- Hung Liu
- Ajuan Mance[22]
- Helene Mayer (1910–1953) - German and American Olympic champion fencer
- Darius Milhaud
- Roscoe Mitchell
- Diana O'Hehir
- Pauline Oliveros
- Kathleen Parlow
- Roi Partridge
- Maggi Payne[16]
- Elizabeth Marie Pope
- Stephen Ratcliffe
- Terry Riley
- David Rosenboom
- Moira Roth
- Dean Rusk
- Diana E.H. Russell
- Kirsten Saxton
- Robert Sheff
- Laetitia Sonami
- Ellen Spertus[23]
- Zvezdelina Stankova
- Catherine Wagner
Trustees
- Albert M. Bender
- Milton H. Myrick - founding trustee, 1875[24]
References
- ^ Duckworth, William (April 1, 1999). Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers. Da Capo. p. 368. ISBN 978-0-306-80893-7. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
- ^ a b "Mills College - John Bischoff". Retrieved 2008-02-26.
- ^ Sabbath, Chris (2007-05-02). "MCMAF: Ich bin Kevin Blechdom". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved 2008-02-29.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Mills College - Notable Graduates". Retrieved 2008-02-26.
- ^ Methodist Episcopal Church. Conferences. Illinois (1904). Minutes. pp. 111–.
- ^ "Lily of 'Lawman' Began on Radio". Express and News. June 24, 1961. p. 7. Retrieved September 18, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Meyer, Carla (2003-09-20). "Sofia Coppola has a little humor and, now, a big film. Father Francis and husband Spike? Not a factor". San Francisco Chronicle. pp. D-1. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
- ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (April 6, 2005). "Elizabeth Crow, 58, Editor, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved June 25, 2009.
- ^ "Leah Gerber - Person". Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
- ^ Wright, Walter, "Artist, UH professor Helen Gilbert-Bushnell dead at 80", Honolulu Advertiser
- ^ http://igetrvng.com/artists/holly-herndon/
- ^ "Barbara Higbie biography". Archived from the original on 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2008-02-29.
- ^ "Mills College Viewbook (2015)". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
- ^ "Jiz Lee: An exciting time for queer porn". Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ "Micheline Aharonian Marcom".
- ^ a b "Mills College - Maggi Payne". Retrieved 2008-02-26.
- ^ "Marc Anthony Richardson".
- ^ Roy, Ananya. "Ananya Roy". UC Berkeley. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ Cassell, Heather (June 23, 2016). "Trans woman grabs for the gold at the end of the rainbow". Bay Area Reporter. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- ^ http://cltampa.com/dailyloaf/archives/2013/03/04/getting-inside-dana-vespoli#.UvSTI0tX_Ww
- ^ "Mills College - Chris Brown". Retrieved 2008-02-26.
- ^ Robertson, Michelle; SFGATE (2017-11-01). "An Oakland artist drew 1,001 portraits of black men". SFGate. Retrieved 2020-01-03.
- ^ Katie Hafner (2003-08-21). "3 Women, 3 Paths, 10 Years On". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ^ "Articles of Incorporation". Daily Alta California. No. 39 (12992). California Digital Newspaper Collection. 9 October 1885. p. 8. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
