List of Mills College people
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The following is a partial list of notable Mills College alumnae. It includes alumnae, professors, and others associated with Mills College.
Alumnae and alumni
[edit]- Janus Adams - journalist and talk show host[1]
- Laurie Anderson - performance artist and musician[2]
- John Bischoff - musician[3]
- Kevin Blechdom - musician[4]
- Renel Brooks-Moon - voice of the San Francisco Giants, first black baseball announcer[5]
- Trisha Brown - choreographer[5]
- Dave Brubeck - musician and composer[5]
- Teresa Blankmeyer Burke - philosopher and bioethicist[5]
- Alice Sudduth Byerly (1855–1904) - temperance activist[6]
- Peggie Castle - actress[7]
- Sharon Cheslow - musician and artist
- King Lan Chew - dancer
- Amy Hsiao-chang Chiang, socialite
- Maya Chinchilla - poet
- Katherine Choy - ceramicist[8]
- Marika Cifor - professor at University of Washington Information School
- Martha Fuller Clark - New Hampshire state senator
- Sofia Coppola - director[9]
- Elizabeth Crow (1968, B.A.) - editor and journalist[10]
- Eunice Prieto Damron - ceramic artist
- Olivia de Havilland - actress[11]
- Vaughn De Leath
- Paul DeMarinis - artist, musician, composer
- Rosanna Castrillo Diaz - artist
- March Fong Eu - politician[5]
- Claire Falkenstein - sculptor, painter, print-maker and jewelry designer known for her large-scale abstract metal and glass sculptures
- Molissa Fenley - modern dancer[5]
- Jim Ferguson - guitarist and composer
- Guillermo Galindo - composer, sound artist
- Noah Georgeson - musician and producer
- Leah Gerber - professor of Conservation Science at Arizona State University[12]
- Helen Gilbert - artist[13]
- April Catherine Glaspie - diplomat, United States Ambassador to Iraq during the Gulf War[5]
- Ben Goldberg - composer and clarinetist
- Michelle Cruz Gonzalez - musician, author
- Beate Sirota Gordon - contributing author, as staff to Douglas MacArthur, of Japanese Constitution[5]
- Peter Gordon - composer
- Ariel Gore - author[5]
- Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson - composer
- Holly Herndon - composer, musician, and sound artist[14]
- Barbara Higbie - musician and composer[15]
- Claire Giannini Hoffman - first woman to serve on the boards of Bank of America and Sears, Roebuck & Company
- Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner - Marshallese poet and climate change activist[16]
- 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. representative from California's 12th congressional district[5]
- May Lee - CNN correspondent[11]
- Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead bassist[11]
- Cheena Marie Lo - poet
- Charmian London - second wife and biographer of Jack London
- Jeffrey Luck Lucas - musician and composer
- Megan March - musician, visual artist
- Micheline Aharonian Marcom - novelist[17]
- Jerry Martin - composer
- Miya Masaoka - musician and composer
- Billie June McCaskill - botanist[18]
- Siobhon McManus - teacher and activist
- Stacey Milbern - disability rights activist
- Constance Money - actress
- Elizabeth Murray - painter and MacArthur Fellow[5]
- Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina - writer
- Dasha Nekrasova - actress
- Amy X. Neuburg - musician and composer[11]
- Joanna Newsom - musician
- Margaret Nielsen - New Zealand pianist and piano teacher
- Margaret Saunders Ott - pianist and music educator
- Diana L. Paxson - author
- Maggi Payne - composer and musician[19]
- Daniella Pineda
- Dan Plonsey - saxophonist
- Johanna Poethig – visual, public and performance artist
- Dixy Lee Ray - governor of Washington and chair of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission[5]
- Dana Reason - composer and musician
- Steve Reich - composer[5]
- Marc Anthony Richardson - novelist[20]
- Gino Robair - composer and percussionist
- Manuel Rocha Iturbide - composer and sound artist
- Ana Roxanne - musician and singer
- Ananya Roy - professor of urban studies at UC Berkeley[21]
- Ann Sandifur - composer
- Mia Satya (aka Mia Tu Mutch) - community organizer and activist[22]
- Lateefah Simon - U.S. representative from California's 12th congressional district
- Beate Sirota - helped write the Japanese constitution
- Irma Tam Soong - historian
- Morton Subotnick - composer
- Michèle Taylor - U.S. ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council
- Grace Vamos - composer and cellist
- Dana Vespoli - pornographic actress[23]
- Candace Vogler - philosopher
- Katharine Mulky Warne - composer
- Gordon Watson - pianist[11]
- William Winant - percussionist
- Betty Ann Wong - composer
- Hsiung-Zee Wong - composer and musician[11]
- Jade Snow Wong - author and artist[5]
- Connie Young Yu - author, historian, and lecturer[11]
Faculty
[edit]- Robert Ashley[11]
- Fred Uhl Ball
- Mary Lathrop Benton
- Arthur Berger
- Luciano Berio[11]
- John Bischoff[3]
- Chana Bloch
- Lenore Blum
- Anthony Braxton[11]
- Domenico Brescia
- Anna Cox Brinton
- Chris Brown[24]
- Dave Brubeck[11]
- John Cage[11]
- Alvin Curran[11]
- Delaine Eastin
- Hettie Belle Ege
- Fred Frith
- Lou Harrison[11]
- Joan Jeanrenaud[25]
- Barbara Lee - congresswoman
- George E. Lewis
- Yiyun Li
- Hung Liu
- Ajuan Mance[26]
- Helene Mayer (1910–1953) - German and American Olympic champion fencer
- Darius Milhaud[11]
- Roscoe Mitchell
- Diana O'Hehir
- Pauline Oliveros[11]
- Kathleen Parlow
- Roi Partridge
- Maggi Payne[19]
- Elizabeth Marie Pope
- Stephen Ratcliffe
- Terry Riley[11]
- David Rosenboom
- Moira Roth
- Dean Rusk[11]
- Diana E.H. Russell
- Pierre Salinger
- Kirsten Saxton
- Robert Sheff
- Laetitia Sonami
- Glenn Spearman
- Ellen Spertus[27]
- Homer Sprague[11]
- Zvezdelina Stankova[11]
- Susan Stryker[28]
- Morton Subotnick
- Grace Vamos
- Catherine Wagner[11]
- Edith Wherry
- William Winant
Trustees
[edit]- Albert M. Bender
- Ethel Moore (1872–1920) - trustee, elected in 1915
- Milton H. Myrick - founding trustee, 1875[29]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Janus Adams | Authors · Janus Adams | Turner Publishing". www.turnerpublishing.com. Retrieved August 16, 2017.[dead link]
- ↑ 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 February 28, 2008.
- 1 2 "Mills College - John Bischoff". Retrieved February 26, 2008.
- ↑ Sabbath, Chris (May 2, 2007). "MCMAF: Ich bin Kevin Blechdom". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved February 29, 2008.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Mills College - Notable Graduates". Retrieved February 26, 2008.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Buchanan, Mel (May 31, 2022). "Katherine Choy: Radical Potter". Glass Cube. Mills College Art Museum. Retrieved February 22, 2023 – via Medium.com.
- ↑ Meyer, Carla (September 20, 2003). "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 February 28, 2009.
- ↑ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (April 6, 2005). "Elizabeth Crow, 58, Editor, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved June 25, 2009.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Janos Gereben (March 22, 2020). "Mills Colleges Future is in Doubt but the Fight Is On". SF Classical Voice. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
- ↑ "Leah Gerber - Person". Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- ↑ Wright, Walter, "Artist, UH professor Helen Gilbert-Bushnell dead at 80", Honolulu Advertiser
- ↑ "Holly Herndon - RVNG Intl".
- ↑ "Barbara Higbie biography". Archived from the original on January 2, 2008. Retrieved February 29, 2008.
- ↑ "Mills College Viewbook (2015)". Issuu. Archived from the original on April 25, 2021. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
- ↑ "Micheline Aharonian Marcom".
- ↑ Tucker, J.M. (2004). "June McCaskill (1930-2001)" (PDF). Fremontia. 32 (2): 19–23.
- 1 2 "Mills College - Maggi Payne". Retrieved February 26, 2008.
- ↑ "Marc Anthony Richardson".
- ↑ Roy, Ananya. "Ananya Roy". UC Berkeley. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
- ↑ Cassell, Heather (June 23, 2016). "Trans woman grabs for the gold at the end of the rainbow". Bay Area Reporter. Archived from the original on October 22, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- ↑ StackPath
- ↑ "Mills College - Chris Brown". Retrieved February 26, 2008.
- ↑ "Ensemble Directors & Lesson Instructors Bios".
- ↑ Robertson, Michelle; SFGATE (November 1, 2017). "An Oakland artist drew 1,001 portraits of black men". SFGate. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
- ↑ Katie Hafner (August 21, 2003). "3 Women, 3 Paths, 10 Years On". The New York Times. Retrieved March 1, 2008.
- ↑ Martha Ross (September 23, 2020). "Fighting the new culture wars: Mills College hires pioneering transgender historian and activist". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
- ↑ "Articles of Incorporation". Daily Alta California. Vol. 39, no. 12992. California Digital Newspaper Collection. October 9, 1885. p. 8. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
