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