List of Pitzer College people
Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of Pitzer College.
Notable alumni
Arts and letters
Film and television
- Anne Archer 1969, actress
- Matthew Berkowitz, filmmaker
- Matthew Cooke 1996, documentary filmmaker
- Eric Douglas, actor and stand-up comedian, son of Kirk Douglas, brother of Michael Douglas
- Shatara Michelle Ford, director, writer and producer
- Dee Mosbacher, documentary filmmaker, gay rights activist, and psychiatrist[1]
Writing
- Max Brooks 1994, author and lecturer, son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft
- Dennis Cooper, novelist, poet, critic, and performance artist
- John Darnielle 1995, novelist and lead singer of The Mountain Goats
- Amy Gerstler 1978, poet and winner of the 1991 National Books Critics Circle Award for Bitter Angel
- Dana Levin 1987, poet
- Sandra Mitchell 1973, award-winning author, professor and philosopher of science
- Susan Patron 1969, children's author and winner of the 2007 Newbery Medal for The Higher Power of Lucky
- Rob Magnuson Smith 1991, author
- Isabel Neal (poet) 2012, American poet and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 2025
Journalism
- David Bloom 1985, anchor, NBC News
Music
- Tom Freund 1993, singer-songwriter and musician
- J.Lately 2009, rapper[2]
- Jonah Matranga 1991, singer-songwriter and musician, former frontman for Far and Gratitude
- Matt Nathanson 1995, singer-songwriter and musician
- Michael Simpson 1986, Grammy Award-winning producer/composer; one half of the Dust Brothers
Government and law
- Michael Ceraso, political consultant and state director for the presidential campaigns of Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders
- Kevin de León 2003, member of the Los Angeles City Council and former member of the California State Legislature
- Mablean Ephriam 1971, former prosecutor for the city of Los Angeles, television personality and actress
- Eli Erlick 2016, transgender activist, director of Trans Student Educational Resources
- Steven González 1985, chief justice of the Washington State Supreme Court
- Matthew Karatz 1994, deputy mayor of Los Angeles
- Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 26th district
- Fabian Núñez, former speaker of the California State Assembly
- Debra Wong Yang 1981, former United States attorney for Central District of California; first female Asian-American U.S. attorney
Business
- Susan Feniger 1976, celebrity chef and restaurateur
- John Landgraf 1984, FX Network president
- Ashwin Navin 1998, CEO of Sambaa
Other
- Hunter Lovins, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute
- Setha Low 1969, anthropologist, director of the Public Space Research Group
- Charles Martinez, university administrator
- Sharon Monsky 1975, founder of the Scleroderma Research Foundation
- Nick Simmons 2011, reality television personality, son of Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed
- Diana Vicezar 2023, Paraguayan entrepreneur
Notable faculty
- Halford Fairchild, Psychology and Black Studies
- Judith Grabiner, Mathematics, history of mathematics and science; awarded the 2014 Beckenback Book Prize for A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings (MAA Spectrum, 2010); inaugural member of the 2012 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society[3]
- David Moore, Psychology, director of the Claremont Infant Study Center, winner of the American Psychological Association's 2016 Maccoby Book Award for The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics (2015)[4]
- Gregg Popovich, men's basketball coach 1979-1986, 1987-1988
- Dana Ward, emeritus professor of Political Studies, founder of the Anarchy Archives, executive director of the International Society of Political Psychology (1998–2004)
- Phil Zuckerman, Sociology and Secular Studies, expert in secularity, atheism, apostasy, and Scandinavian culture; author of several books including Living the Secular Life (2014); frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and sought after commentator for discussions on secularism[5]
References
- ^ "Dee Mosbacher, Nanette Gartrell". The New York Times. January 16, 2005. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
- ^ "j. lately - 2DOPEBOYZ". 2dopeboyz.com.
- ^ "Judith V. Grabiner, Professor of Mathematics". Academics. Archived from the original on January 14, 2016. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
- ^ "David Moore - Academics". Academics. Archived from the original on November 27, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
- ^ "Phil Zuckerman, Professor of Sociology". Academics. Archived from the original on December 3, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2016.