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