Alumni Stories

DAVID ABERNATHY

Graduating Class: 1999

Current Position: Vice President of Data & Government Affairs at The Arcview Group

Current Location: Oakland, CA

Education / School 1: Clark University

YUSEF ALEXANDRINE

Graduating Class: 1988

Current Position: Director, Senior Counsel at Allianz Global Investors

Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Education / School 1: Howard University, UC Berkeley

SAM ARONS

Graduating Class: 1996
Current Position: Director of Sustainability at Lyft
Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Education / School 1: The College Preparatory School, Williams College, University of California, Berkeley
Education / School 2: UC Berkeley

MICHAEL ASSADI

Graduating Class: 2012
Current Position: Digital Marketing | Small Business Owner at GreenerPrinter
Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Education / School 1: Berkeley High School

BEVAN BARTON

Graduating Class: 2001

Current Position: Full-stack blockchain developer at Peepeth

Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Education / School 1: Middlebury College

PIETA BLAKELY

Graduating Class: 1985

Current Position: Data Management, Evaluation Systems, and Policy Consulting at Blakely Consulting, LLC

Current Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Education / School 1: Boston University, Harvard University, Brandeis University

MORGAN BRADY

Graduating Class: 1998

Current Position: Senior Coach Manager & Health Coach at Vida Health, Inc.

Current Location: Berkeley, CA

Education / School 1: John F. Kennedy University, National University of Health Sciences

DAVID BRESLAUER

Graduating Class: 1997

Current Position: CSO and co-founder at Bolt Threads

Current Location: Emeryville, CA

Education / School 1: University of California San Francisco

MICHELLE BRESLAUER

Graduating Class: 1994

Current Position: Public Affairs & Strategic Partnerships at Institute for Economics & Peace

Current Location: NYC

Education / School 1: The American University of Paris, he London School of Economics and Political Science

COURTNEY COILE

Graduating Class: 1982

Current Position: Economics teacher at Wellesley College

Education / School 1: Harvard, MIT

CHRISTINA CHOATE

Graduating Class: 2001

Current Position: Video Producer & Videographer

Current Location: Berkeley, CA

Education / School 1: UCSC, Montana State University Bozeman

CELINE COHEN

Graduating Class: 1983

Current Position: PR at the Australian Trade Commission (aka Austrade)

Education / School 1: College Preparatory School in Oakland, Hamilton College

CLARA DAVIS

Graduating Class: 2007

Current Company Name: Non-profit hospital in Hayward, CA

Current Position: Registered nurse

Current Location: East Bay, California

STEPHANIE DE SOUZA

Graduating Class: 1999

Current Company Name: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Current Position: Immigration Officer

Current Location: San Jose, CA

ATISSA DORROH-MANSHOURI

Graduating Class: 1985

Current Position: Development at the California Film Institute/Mill Valley Film Festival

Current Location: Mill Valley, California

Education / School 1: Georgetown University

DR. GABRIELLE DREYFUS

Graduating Class: 1993

Current Position: Senior Scientist at Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD)

Current Location: Washington DC

Education / School 1: Princeton University, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Harvard University

MARC ESCOBOSA

Graduating Class: 1984

Current Position: Innovation Sr. Director, West Practice Lead at Salesforce

Current Location: San Francisco, CA

Education / School 1: Dartmouth

NICK FEHR

Graduating Class: 2001

Current Position: Co-Founder at The Bosco

Current Location: Brooklyn, New York

Education / School 1: UCLA

SARAH FIELDING

Graduating Class: 1997

Current Position: Biotechnologist

SHAUNA FINNIE

Graduating Class: 1983

Current Position: Driving safer, cleaner ground transportation at Google

Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Education / School 1: UCLA, UC Berkeley, Harvard University

AARON FIRESTEIN

Graduating Class: 1999

Current Position: Co-Founder and Chief Artist at BucketFeet

Current Location: Chicago

Education / School 1: University of Oregon

DANIÈLE FOGEL

Graduating Class: 1997

BEN GRANT

Graduating Class: 1983

Current Position: independent consultant

Education / School 1: Columbia

ANDREW AND JOHN HASSE

Graduating Class: 1995, 2004

Current Position: Filmmaker/Visioneer

Current Location: Berkeley California

Education / School 1: Marin Academy, NY University

PIA HAUCH

Graduating Class: 2003

Current Position: Director of Operations at Cabin

Current Location: San Francisco, CA

Education / School 1: Copenhagen Business School, Stanford University

RYAN JONES

Graduating Class: 1995

Current Position: Facilitator by nature, empowering teams to build amazing software at Signature Consultants

Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Education / School 1: Fresno City College, San Jose State University

SARAH KANAFANI

Graduating Class: 1992
Current Position: Lecturer in International Relations at University of Reading
Current Location: Oxford, UK
Education / School 1: UC Berkeley, Georgetown University, University of Oxford

MERRICK KINGSTON

Graduating Class: 1999

Current Position: Consultant

OLIVIA KRAGEN

Graduating Class: 2003

Current Position: Digital Marketing Manager at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

Current Location: Greater Los Angeles, CA

Education / School 1: Boston University

LUCIE KROENING

Graduating Class: 1999

Current Position: Multimedia journalist, researcher, translator (English-French-Arabic-German)

Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Education / School 1: Columbia University, Institut francais du proche Orient, Institut d'études politiques de Paris

ALEXANDRA KRZYZOSIAK

Graduating Class: 2004
Current Position: User Researcher and Digital Product Designer
Current Location: Seattle, WA
Education / School 1: Masters of Human-Computer Interaction + Design at the University of Washington

JOHNELLE MANCHA

Graduating Class: 1994
Current Position: Owner at Mignonne Decor, and Co-Founder of LUSH Getaways
Current Location: Berkeley, CA
Education / School 1: San Francisco State University, L'Accademia di Belle Arti Florence Italy

ELI MARIENTHAL

Graduating Class: 2000
Current Company Name: Back to Earth
Current Position: Co-director and co-founder
Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Education / School 1: Brown University

DANIEL MARSCHAK

Graduating Class: 2000
Current Position: Composer and Pianist at Well Versed Productions
Current Location: Greater Los Angeles, CA
Education / School 1: UCLA

KILI MCGOWAN

Graduating Class: 1993
Current Position: Owner at Next Adventure, Inc. Board Member at Safari Professionals of the Americas
Current Location: Berkeley, CA
Education / School 1: UC Berkeley

NATHALIE MILLER

Graduating Class: 1996
Current Position: Consultant
Current Location: Oakland, CA
Education / School 1: Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley

FILOMENE MORRISON

Graduating Class: 2003
Current Position: 5th-year Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate at Emory University and McLean Hospital at Harvard University

JOHN PALMER

Graduating Class: 1988
Current Position: Finance Lawyer

DAVID PRUESS

Graduating Class: 1995
Current Position: Teacher

ALEXANDRA SÁNCHEZ

Graduating Class: 2005
Current Position: Consultant Service Manager & Human Resources Associate at The Sage Group
Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Education / School 1: The United World College of the Atlantic, Amherst College and Cal.

CHRISTINA SANFORD

Graduating Class: 1994
Current Position: Lawyer - Associate at Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Current Location: Oakland, CA
Education / School 1: Claremont McKenna College, UCLA

DR. LISA SCHIPPER

Graduating Class: 1986
Current Position: Environmental Social Science Research Fellow at Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford
Current Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Education / School 1: University of East Anglia, Brown University

DELPHINE SCHMIDT

Graduating Class: 1983
Current Position: To develop the firm's international M&A and private equity transactions at law firm Duteil Avocat
Education / School 1: La Sorbonne (Paris)

ANDREW SCHREYER

Graduating Class: 2006
Current Position: Everytown for Gun Safety Operations; Founder of Pierre's Birthday Fund; Former Hillary For America Operations
Current Location: NYC
Education / School 1: Chapman University

ANYA SCHWIN GIBSON

Graduating Class: 1999
Current Position: Undergraduate Programs Supervisor at UC Davis
Current Location: West Sacramento, California
Education / School 1: California State University-Sacramento

JONATHAN SILK

Graduating Class: 1992
Current Position: Creative executive at Gold Circle Films
Education / School 1: UC Santa Cruz

ERIKA SINCLAIR

Graduating Class: 1985
Current Position: to improve the health of women and their families in Africa, Asia and Latin America for a non-profit organization
Education / School 1: FAIS San Francisco, La Sorbonne (Paris)

KATE SOLOMON-TILLEY

Graduating Class: 2001
Current Position: Child Wrangler at Disney's Lion King
Current Location: NYC
Education / School 1: Bryn Mawr College

CHINZALÉE SONAMI

Graduating Class: 1999
Current Position: Senior Grocery Buyer at Planet Organic Ltd
Current Location: London, UK
Education / School 1: Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus)

IVAN SPAZKOWSKI

Graduating Class: 2000

LAURA SPIEKERMAN

Graduating Class: 2000
Current Position: Identity API for financial services onboarding at Alloy
Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Education / School 1: Barnard College

MADELEINE STOKES

Graduating Class: 2003
Current Position: Director of Innovation Initiatives and Corporate Relations at The Johns Hopkins University for a NGO
Current Location: Washington DC
Education / School 1: UCLA, Georgetown University

BRET TURNER

Graduating Class: 1995
Current Location: San Francisco, CA

SALEH TYEBJEE

Graduating Class: 1999
Current Position: Senior Propulsion Engineer at Blue Origin
Current Location: Sacramento, CA
Education / School 1: UC Davis

ZIA TYEBJEE

Graduating Class: 1996
Current Position: Asia Regional Sustainable Design Leader at Gensler
Current Location: Shanghai City, China
Education / School 1: Yale University

TRISTAN VELLRATH

Graduating Class: 1999
Current Position: Maintenance Scheduler at Textron
Current Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Education / School 1: UC Davis, City College of San Francisco

JONATHAN WACHTER

Graduating Class: 2002
Current Position: Soil Scientist and Agroecologist
Current Location: Oakland, CA
Education / School 1: Washington State University