# List of Pitzer College people

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, filmmaker
* Matthew Cooke 1996, documentary filmmaker
* Eric Douglas, actor and stand-up comedian, son of Kirk Douglas, brother of Michael Douglas
* Dee Mosbacher, documentary filmmaker, gay rights activist, and psychiatrist
* Shatara Michelle Ford, director, writer and producer

#### Writing

* Max Brooks 1994, author and lecturer, son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft
* Dennis Cooper, novelist, poet, critic, and performance artist
* John Darnielle 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
* Sandra Mitchell 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
* Rob Magnuson Smith 1991, author

#### Journalism

* David Bloom 1985, anchor, NBC News

#### Music

* Tom Freund 1993, singer-songwriter and musician
* J.Lately 2009, rapper
* Jonah Matranga 1991, singer-songwriter and musician, former frontman for Far and Gratitude
* Matt Nathanson 1995, singer-songwriter and musician
* Michael Simpson 1986, Grammy-Award-winning producer/composer; one half of the Dust Brothers

### Government and law

* Michael Ceraso, political consultant and state director for the presidential campaigns of Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders
* Kevin de León 2003, member of the Los Angeles City Council and former member of the California State Legislature
* Mablean Ephriam 1971, former prosecutor for the city of Los Angeles, television personality and actress
* Eli Erlick 2016, transgender activist, director of Trans Student Educational Resources
* Steven González 1985, Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court
* Matthew Karatz 1994, deputy mayor of Los Angeles
* Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 26th district
* Fabian Núñez, former Speaker of the California State Assembly
* Debra Wong Yang 1981, former United States Attorney for Central District of California; first Asian-American woman U.S. attorney

### Business

* Susan Feniger 1976, celebrity chef and restaurateur
* John Landgraf 1984, FX Network president
* Ashwin Navin 1998, CEO of Sambaa

### Other

* Hunter Lovins, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute
* 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 2011, reality television personality, son of Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed
* Diana Vicezar 2023, Paraguayan entrepreneur

## 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, Psychology and Black Studies
* Stephen L. Glass, John A. McCarthy Professor Emeritus of Classics, longest-serving faculty member of the College, 1964–2011
* Judith Grabiner, Mathematics, history of mathematics and science; awarded the 2014 Beckenback Book Prize for 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, winner of the American Psychological Association's 2016 Maccoby Book Award for The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics (2015)
* Gregg Popovich, men's basketball coach 1979-1986, 1987-1988
* Dana Ward, Emeritus Professor of Political Studies, founder of the Anarchy Archives, executive director of the International Society of Political Psychology (1998–2004)
* Kathleen Yep, Asian American Studies, chair, Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges, honored in 2015 for promoting literacy in the Los Angeles community
* Phil Zuckerman, 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