Sandy Close

Alexandra Close is an American journalist and the Executive Director of the Bay Area Institute / Pacific News Service, and New America Media.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Close graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with BA in 1964. She worked as the China editor in Hong Kong for the Far Eastern Economic Review.^[4] She founded the Oakland-based Flatlands newspaper.

She was married to the historian and Asian affairs scholar Franz Schurmann from 1968 until his death in 2010.

Awards

"Ben Hur" Vs. "Titanic" -- Nature Replaced God in Film That Speaks to Environmental Age, JINN, 03-26-98
"Fear and uncertainty in the era of change", National Civic Review, Volume 98 Issue 3, Pages 46 – 47^[6]

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