List_of_Mills_College_people
The following is a partial list of notable Mills College Alumnae. It includes alumnae, professors, and others associated with Mills College.
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Main category: Mills College alumni
- 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
- 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
- Constance Money - actress
- Elizabeth Murray - painter and MacArthur Fellow[5]
- Dasha Nekrasova - actress
- Amy X. Neuburg - musician and composer[11]
- Joanna Newsom - musician
- Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina - writer
- 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
- Gino Robair - composer and percussionist
- Steve Reich - composer[5]
- Wendy Reid - composer and violinist
- Marc Anthony Richardson - novelist[20]
- 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]
- 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]
Main category: Mills College faculty
- Robert Ashley[11]
- Fred Uhl Ball
- 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 / Bill Colvig[11]
- Joan Jeanrenaud[25]
- Congresswoman Barbara Lee
- George E. Lewis
- Yiyun Li
- Hung Liu
- Ajuan Mance[26]
- R. Wood Massi[27] [28]
- 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
- Wendy Reid
- 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[29]
- Homer Sprague[11]
- Zvezdelina Stankova[11]
- Susan Stryker[30]
- Morton Subotnick
- Grace Vamos
- Catherine Wagner[11]
- William Winant
- Albert M. Bender
- Ethel Moore (1872-1920), trustee, elected in 1915
- Milton H. Myrick - founding trustee, 1875[31]
- "Janus Adams | Authors · Janus Adams | Turner Publishing". www.turnerpublishing.com. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- 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.
- "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.
- "Mills College - Notable Graduates". Retrieved 2008-02-26.
- "Lily of 'Lawman' Began on Radio". Express and News. June 24, 1961. p. 7. Retrieved September 18, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- Buchanan, Mel (2022-05-31). "Katherine Choy: Radical Potter". Glass Cube. Mills College Art Museum. Retrieved 2023-02-22 – via Medium.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.
- Janos Gereben (22 March 2020). "Mills Colleges Future is in Doubt but the Fight Is On". SF Classical Voice. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
- "Leah Gerber - Person". Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
- "Barbara Higbie biography". Archived from the original on 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2008-02-29.
- "Mills College Viewbook (2015)". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
- Tucker, J.M. (2004). "June McCaskill (1930-2001)" (PDF). Fremontia. 32 (2): 19–23.
- "Mills College - Maggi Payne". Retrieved 2008-02-26.
- 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.
- "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.
- Collaer, Paul; Galante, Jane Hohfeld (10 October 1988). Darius Milhaud, by Paul Collaer, Jane Hohfeld Galante. p. 386. ISBN 9781349106516. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
- "Bay Area Reporter". p. vol 15 no 35 p34. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- Katie Hafner (2003-08-21). "3 Women, 3 Paths, 10 Years On". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- Martha Ross (2020-09-23). "Fighting the new culture wars: Mills College hires pioneering transgender historian and activist". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
- "Articles of Incorporation". Daily Alta California. Vol. 39, no. 12992. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 9 October 1885. p. 8. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
