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 Matthew Berkowitz is an American film director, writer, and producer. He has written and directed three feature films (''Wild in Blue'', ''A Violent Man'', ''The Madness Inside Me''). Early life and career Berkowitz went to Pitzer College in ...

, filmmaker *

Eric Douglas Eric Anthony Douglas (June 21, 1958 – July 6, 2004) was an American actor and stand-up comedian. Douglas was the youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas and his second wife Anne Buydens. His half brother was actor and producer Michael Douglas. Dougl ...

American actor and stand-up comedian, son of Kirk Douglas, brother of

Michael Douglas Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the A ...

Dee Mosbacher Diane "Dee" Mosbacher, MD, Ph.D., (born January 13, 1949 in Houston, Texas) is an American filmmaker, lesbian feminist activist, and practicing psychiatrist. In 1993, she founded Woman Vision, a nonprofit organization to promote equal treatment ...

, documentary filmmaker, gay rights activist, and psychiatrist

Writing

Max Brooks Maximillian Michael Brooks (born May 22, 1972) is an American actor and author. He is the son of comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks's writing focuses on zombie stories. He is a senior fellow at the Modern War ...

1994, author and lecturer, son of

Mel Brooks Mel Brooks (born Melvin James Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. He began ...

and

Anne Bancroft Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two ...

Dennis Cooper Dennis Cooper (born January 10, 1953) is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist. He is best known for the ''George Miles Cycle'', a series of five semi-autobiographical novels published between 1989 and 2000 and describe ...

, novelist, poet, critic, and performance artist *

John Darnielle John Darnielle (; born March 16, 1967) is an American musician and novelist best known as the primary, and originally sole, member of the American band the Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist. ...

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 * Rob Magnuson Smith 1991, author *

Sandra Mitchell Sandra D. Mitchell (born 1951) is an American philosophy of science, philosopher of science and History of ideas, historian of ideas. She holds the position of distinguished professor in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at the U ...

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''

Journalism

David Bloom David Jerome Bloom (May 22, 1963 – April 6, 2003) was an American television journalist (co-anchor of ''Weekend Today'' and reporter) until his sudden death in 2003 after a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) became a pulmonary embolism. Early an ...

1985, anchor,

NBC News NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, a division of NBCUniversal, which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's var ...

Music

* Tom Freund 1993, singer-songwriter and musician * J.Lately 2009, rapper *

Jonah Matranga Jonah Rzadzinski Matranga (born Jonah Sonz Matranga, August 11, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who has released a variety of solo material under his own name and onelinedrawing, and has previously been part of the bands ...

1991, singer-songwriter and musician, former frontman for Far and

Gratitude Gratitude, thankfulness, or gratefulness is from the Latin word ''gratus,'' which means "pleasing" or "thankful." Is regarded as a feeling of appreciation (or similar positive response) by a recipient of another's kindness. This can be gifts, h ...

Matt Nathanson Matthew Adam Nathanson (born March 28, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter whose work is a blend of folk and rock and roll music. In addition to singing, he plays acoustic (sometimes a 12-string) and electric guitar, and has played both sol ...

1995, singer-songwriter and musician * Michael Simpson 1986, Grammy-Award-winning producer/composer; one half of the

Dust Brothers The Dust Brothers are a pair of songwriters and producers consisting of E.Z. Mike ( Michael Simpson) and King Gizmo ( John King). They are famous for the sample-based music they produced in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work on ...

Government and Law

Mablean Ephriam Mablean Deloris Ephriam, Esq. (born April 23, 1949) is a former Los Angeles prosecuting attorney. She is best known as the adjudicator of the courtroom series ''Divorce Court'' for seven seasons from 1999–2006. She was replaced by Judge Lyn ...

'71, former prosecutor for the city of Los Angeles, television personality and actress * Eli Erlick 2016, transgender activist, director of

Trans Student Educational Resources Trans Student Educational Resources (TSER) is a United States-based organization that seeks to educate the transgender youth. It was founded in 2011 by teen activists. It is the only national organization led by transgender youth. TSER provides ...

* Steven González 1985, Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court * Matthew Karatz 1994, deputy mayor of Los Angeles *

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell Debbie Jessika Mucarsel-Powell (born January 18, 1971) is an Ecuadorian-born American politician and academic administrator who served as a U.S. representative for from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, her district covered the w ...

, member of the

U.S. House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...

from Florida's 26th district *

Fabian Núñez Fabian Núñez (also transcribed variously as Fabián Núñez, Fabian Nuñez and Fabian Nunez; born December 27, 1966) is an American politician and labor union adviser. A member of the Democratic Party, he served three two-year terms as a mem ...

, former Speaker of the California State Assembly * Debra Wong Yang 1981, former

United States Attorney United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts. Each U.S. attorney serves as the United States' chief federal ...

for

Central District of California The United States District Court for the Central District of California (in case citations, C.D. Cal.; commonly referred to as the CDCA or CACD) is a Federal trial court that serves over 19 million people in Southern and Central California, m ...

; first Asian-American woman U.S. attorney

Business

* Susan Feniger 1976, celebrity chef and restaurateur * John Landgraf 1984, FX Network president *

Ashwin Navin Ashwin Navin is an Indian-American entrepreneur, who is the CEO and co-founder of Samba TV, a data and analytics service that measures television viewership using opt-in data from Internet-connected devices and set-top boxes. The company has bee ...

1998, CEO of Sambaa.

Other

Hunter Lovins L. Hunter Lovins ( née Sheldon, born February 26, 1950 in Middlebury, Vermont) is an American environmentalist, author, sustainable development proponent, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, and president of the nonprofit organization Natura ...

, co-founder of

Rocky Mountain Institute RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute) is an organization in the United States co-founded by Amory Lovins dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the field of sustainability, with a focus on profitable innovations for energy an ...

* 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 Nicholas Adam Tweed-Simmons (born January 22, 1989) is an American writer, musician, reality television personality and voice-over actor. The son of musician Gene Simmons, he is best known for starring in the A&E reality television series '' Ge ...

2011, reality television personality, son of Gene Simmons and

Shannon Tweed Shannon Lee Tweed Simmons (born March 10, 1957) is a Canadian actress and model. One of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica, she is identified with the genre of the erotic thriller. Tweed has appeared in more than 60 films and in ...

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Notable faculty

* Nigel Boyle, Political Studies – Expert in comparative politics, European social policy, labor market policy, Irish politics, soccer and politics. Recognized by the Fulbright Scholarship Board as the top Fulbright adviser. *

Halford Fairchild Halford Hosoi Fairchild (born March 16, 1949) is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Black Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He was the editor of ''Psych Discourse: The Monthly Newsjournal of The Association of Black Psycho ...

, Psychology and Black Studies. * Stephen L. Glass, John A. McCarthy Professor Emeritus of Classics, longest-serving faculty member of the College from 1964-2011. *

Judith Grabiner Judith Victor Grabiner (born October 12, 1938) is an American mathematician and historian of mathematics, who is Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges. Her main interest is in mathema ...

, Mathematics, history of mathematics and science. Awarded the 2014 Beckenback Book Prize for her book 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. * David Moore, Psychology, Director of the Claremont Infant Study Center and winner of the American Psychological Association's 2016 Maccoby Book Award for ''The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics'' (2015). *

Gregg Popovich Gregg Charles Popovich (born January 28, 1949) is an American professional basketball coach and executive who is the president and head coach of the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Taking over as coach of the Spur ...

, men's basketball coach 1979-1986, 1987-1988. * Dana Ward, Emeritus Professor of Political Studies - Founder of the

Anarchy Archives Dana Ward is a professor emeritus of Political Studies at Pitzer College, where he founded and maintains the Anarchy Archives and where he taught from 1982 through 2012. He was the Executive Director of The International Society of Political Psych ...

, Executive Director of the International Society of Political Psychology (1998–2004). * Kathleen Yep, Asian American Studies and Chair, Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at The Claremont Colleges. Honored in 2015 for promoting literacy in the Los Angeles Community. *

Phil Zuckerman Philip Joseph Zuckerman (born June 26, 1969) is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He specializes in the sociology of substantial secularity. He is the author of several books, including ''Livi ...

, 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 by multiple media outlets.

References

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