san francisco state university notable alumni

Last Updated on December 26, 2022

Art

  • Opal Palmer Adisa – artist, writer
  • Debra Bloomfield – artist, photographer
  • Lenore Chinn – painter
  • Roy De Forest (1930-2007) – painter and sculptor
  • Phoebe Gloeckner – visual artist and cartoonist
  • Suzanne Jackson – visual artist, poet, and dancer
  • Elliott Linwood – conceptual artist
  • Fred Rinne – visual and performance artist
  • Hannah Stouffer – artist

Business

  • Solomon Darwin – Professor of Business at Haas School of Business and known for his development of “smart village” frameworks for Indian villages
  • Barnaby Dorfman – founder and CEO of Foodista.com
  • Greg Fischbach – founder, Acclaim Entertainment
  • Chris Larsen – billionaire founder of E-Loan and Ripple Labs
  • George M. Marcus – billionaire real estate broker, founder of Marcus & Millichap
  • Manny Mashouf – billionaire founder of bebe stores clothing retail shop
  • Jayshree Ullal – president and CEO of Arista Networks
  • Stephen Wolf – chairman of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
  • David Woodard – businessman

Journalism

  • Amy L. Alexander – author; journalist for The Washington Post, NPR, The Root, and The Nation, as well as many newspapers
  • Mark Arnold – self-published author
  • Ken Bastida – news anchor for KPIX
  • Melba Pattillo Beals – journalist and member of the Little Rock Nine
  • Po Bronson – journalist and author
  • Howard Bryant – senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine’
  • Stan Bunger – morning co-anchor at KCBS All News 740/FM 106.9
  • David Farley – Author of “An Irreverent Curiosity”, food and travel writer
  • Ben Fong-Torres – writer, broadcaster, editor at Rolling Stone[5]
  • Mike Galanos – news anchor for HLN
  • Kimberly Hunt – chief anchor and managing editor for KGTV, San Diego
  • Al Martinez (1929-2015) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
  • Michael Moss – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
  • Cyrus Saatsaz – KNBR Creative Director, host of The Extreme Scene, action sports writer
  • Frank Somerville – news anchor for KTVU Fox 2 in Oakland, California
  • Jose Antonio Vargas – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
  • Annie Wells – Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist
  • Josh Wolf – independent journalist who videotaped an anti-G8 anarchist protest in San Francisco in 2005

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