List of Mills College people explained

The following is a partial list of notable Mills College Alumnae. It includes alumnae, professors, and others associated with Mills College.

Alumnae and alumni

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• Janus Adams - journalist and talk show host^[1]
• Laurie Anderson - performance artist and musician^[2]
• John Bischoff - musician
• Kevin Blechdom - musician^[3]
• Renel Brooks-Moon - voice of the San Francisco Giants, first black baseball announcer^[4]
• Trisha Brown - choreographer
• Dave Brubeck - musician and composer
• Teresa Blankmeyer Burke - philosopher and bioethicist
• Alice Sudduth Byerly (1855–1904) - temperance activist^[5]
• Peggie Castle - actress^[6]
• Sharon Cheslow - musician and artist
• King Lan Chew - dancer
• Maya Chinchilla - poet
• Katherine Choy - ceramicist^[7]
• Marika Cifor - professor at University of Washington Information School.
• Martha Fuller Clark - New Hampshire State Senator
• Sofia Coppola - director ^[8]
• Elizabeth Crow (1968, B.A.) - editor and journalist^[9]
• Eunice Prieto Damron - ceramic artist
• Olivia de Havilland - actress ^[10]
• Vaughn De Leath
• Paul DeMarinis - artist, musician, composer
• Rosanna Castrillo Diaz - artist
• March Fong Eu - politician
• Claire Falkenstein - sculptor, painter, print-maker and jewelry designer known for her large-scale abstract metal and glass sculptures
• Molissa Fenley - modern dancer
• 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^[11]
• Helen Gilbert - artist^[12]
  • April Catherine Glaspie - diplomat, United States Ambassador to Iraq during the Gulf War Ben Goldberg - composer and clarinetist
• Michelle Cruz Gonzalez - musician, author
• Beate Sirota Gordon - contributing author, as staff to Douglas MacArthur, of Japanese Constitution
• Peter Gordon - composer
• Ariel Gore - author
• Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson - composer
• Holly Herndon - composer, musician, and sound artist ^[13]
• Barbara Higbie - musician and composer^[14]
• 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^[15]
• 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
• 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
• Megan March - musician, visual artist
• Micheline Aharonian Marcom - novelist^[16]
• Jerry Martin - composer
• Miya Masaoka - musician and composer
• Billie June McCaskill - botanist^[17]
• Siobhon McManus - teacher and activist
• Constance Money - actress
• Elizabeth Murray - painter and MacArthur Fellow
• Dasha Nekrasova - actress
• Amy X. Neuburg - musician and composer
• 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
• 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 Dana Reason - composer and musician

• Gino Robair - composer and percussionist
• Steve Reich - composer
• Wendy Reid - composer and violinist
• Marc Anthony Richardson - novelist^[18]
• Manuel Rocha Iturbide - composer and sound artist
• Ana Roxanne - musician and singer
• Ananya Roy - professor of urban studies at UC Berkeley^[19]
• Ann Sandifur, composer
• Mia Satya (aka Mia Tu Mutch), community organizer and activist^[20]
• 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^[21]
• Candace Vogler - philosopher
• Katharine Mulky Warne - composer
• Gordon Watson - pianist ^[10]
• William Winant - percussionist
• Betty Ann Wong - composer
• Hsiung-Zee Wong - composer and musician^[10]
• Jade Snow Wong - author and artist
• Connie Young Yu - author, historian, and lecturer^[10]

Faculty

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• Robert Ashley^[10]
• Fred Uhl Ball
• Arthur Berger
• Luciano Berio^[10]
• John Bischoff^[22]
• Chana Bloch
• Lenore Blum
• Anthony Braxton^[10]
• Domenico Brescia
• Anna Cox Brinton
• Chris Brown^[23]
• Dave Brubeck^[10]
• John Cage^[10]
• Alvin Curran^[10]
• Delaine Eastin
• Hettie Belle Ege
• Fred Frith
• Lou Harrison / Bill Colvig^[10]
• Joan Jeanrenaud^[24]
• Congresswoman Barbara Lee
• George E. Lewis
• Yiyun Li
  • Hung Liu Ajuan Mance^[25]
• R. Wood Massi^{[26] [27]}
• Helene Mayer (1910–1953) - German and American Olympic champion fencer
• Darius Milhaud^[10]
• Roscoe Mitchell
• Diana O'Hehir
• Pauline Oliveros^[10]
• Kathleen Parlow
• Roi Partridge
• Maggi Payne^[28]
  • Elizabeth Marie Pope Stephen Ratcliffe
• Wendy Reid
• Terry Riley^[10]
• David Rosenboom
• Moira Roth
• Dean Rusk^[10]
• Diana E.H. Russell
• Pierre Salinger
• Kirsten Saxton
• Robert Sheff
• Laetitia Sonami
• Glenn Spearman
• Ellen Spertus^[29]
• Homer Sprague^[10]
• Zvezdelina Stankova^[10]
• Susan Stryker^[30]
• Morton Subotnick
• Grace Vamos
• Catherine Wagner^[10]
• William Winant
• Laura Weinbach

Trustees

• Albert M. Bender
• Ethel Moore (1872-1920), trustee, elected in 1915
• Milton H. Myrick - founding trustee, 1875^[31]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Janus Adams Authors · Janus Adams Turner Publishing . 2017-08-16 . www.turnerpublishing.com . en.
2. Book: Duckworth, William . Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers . William Duckworth (composer) . Da Capo . April 1, 1999 . 978-0-306-80893-7 . 368 . 2008-02-28.
3. News: MCMAF: Ich bin Kevin Blechdom . Chris . Sabbath . 2007-05-02 . San Francisco Bay Guardian . 2008-02-29.
4. Web site: Mills College - Notable Graduates. 2008-02-26.
5. Book: Methodist Episcopal Church. Conferences. Illinois. Minutes. 1904. 111–.
6. News: Lily of 'Lawman' Began on Radio. Express and News. June 24, 1961. 7. Newspapers.com. September 18, 2015.
7. Web site: Buchanan . Mel . 2022-05-31 . Katherine Choy: Radical Potter . 2023-02-22 . Glass Cube . . en . Medium.com.
8. News: Meyer . Carla . Sofia Coppola has a little humor and, now, a big film. Father Francis and husband Spike? Not a factor. . 2003-09-20 . D-1 . San Francisco Chronicle . 2009-02-28.
9. News: Elizabeth Crow, 58, Editor, Is Dead. . April 6, 2005. June 25, 2009 . Christopher . Lehmann-Haupt.
10. News: Mills Colleges Future is in Doubt but the Fight Is On . Janos Gereben . 22 March 2020. SF Classical Voice . 2021-04-06 .
11. Web site: Leah Gerber - Person. Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. en-US. 2019-10-24.
12. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Apr/15/ln/ln22a.html Wright, Walter, "Artist, UH professor Helen Gilbert-Bushnell dead at 80", Honolulu Advertiser
13. Web site: Holly Herndon - RVNG Intl..
14. Web site: Barbara Higbie biography . 2008-02-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080102140646/http://www.barbarahigbie.com/bio.htm . 2008-01-02.
15. Web site: Mills College Viewbook (2015). Issuu. en. 2019-10-16.
16. Web site: Micheline Aharonian Marcom.
17. Tucker . J.M. . June McCaskill (1930-2001). . Fremontia . 2004 . 32 . 2 . 19–23 .
18. Web site: Marc Anthony Richardson.
19. Web site: Roy. Ananya. Ananya Roy. UC Berkeley. 5 December 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121024103518/http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/faculty/roy_ananya/. 24 October 2012.
20. News: Cassell. Heather. Trans woman grabs for the gold at the end of the rainbow. October 21, 2017. Bay Area Reporter. June 23, 2016.
21. http://cltampa.com/dailyloaf/archives/2013/03/04/getting-inside-dana-vespoli#.UvSTI0tX_Ww StackPath
22. Web site: Mills College - John Bischoff . 2008-02-26.
23. Web site: Mills College - Chris Brown . 2008-02-26.
24. Web site: Ensemble Directors & Lesson Instructors Bios .
25. Web site: An Oakland artist drew 1,001 portraits of black men. Robertson. Michelle. SFGATE. 2017-11-01. SFGate. 2020-01-03.
26. Book: Darius Milhaud, by Paul Collaer, Jane Hohfeld Galante. 2021-03-20 . 386. 9781349106516. Collaer. Paul. Galante. Jane Hohfeld. 10 October 1988.
27. Web site: Bay Area Reporter. 2021-03-29 . vol 15 no 35 p34.
28. Web site: Mills College - Maggi Payne . 2008-02-26.
29. News: 3 Women, 3 Paths, 10 Years On . 2008-03-01 . Katie Hafner. 2003-08-21 . The New York Times.
30. News: Fighting the new culture wars: Mills College hires pioneering transgender historian and activist . 2021-04-06. Martha Ross. 2020-09-23. San Jose Mercury News.
31. News: Articles of Incorporation. August 16, 2017. Daily Alta California. 12992. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 9 October 1885. 39. 8.