- Debra Fischer
Debra Fischer is a professor of astronomy at San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley. Fischer has co-authored over 80 papers on dwarf and sub-stellar mass objects in the galactic neighbourhood, including many on extrasolar planets. She is also a member of the planet search team led by Geoffrey Marcy looking for extrasolar planets. Debra Fischer has three children. - Tom Ammiano
Tom Ammiano (born December 15, 1941), a Democrat, is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 9, which encompasses parts of the Mission District and the Bernal Heights and Portola neighborhoods. He was elected to the city-wide Board in 1994, and re-elected in 1998, when he became Board President. His efforts to have the Board elected by district instead of city-wide succeeded, and, running as a resident of Bernal Heights, … - Tom Lantos
Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos, Ph.D (born February 1 1928, Budapest, Hungary as Lantos Tamás Péter) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1981, representing California's 12th congressional district, located in the southwest part of San Francisco County and the northern part of San Mateo County. He is the chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. - Gilbert Herdt
Gilbert Herdt (born February 24, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist who specializes in sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. His studies of the 'Sambia' people -- a pseudonym he created -- of Papua New Guinea analyzes how culture and society create sexual meanings and practices. In the United States, Herdt has also studied adolescents and their families, the emergence of HIV and gay culture, and the role that social policy plays in sexual health. - Annette Bening
Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. - Sean Elsbernd
Sean Elsbernd is a San Francisco politician. Supervisor Elsbernd represents District 7, encompassing the single-family neighborhoods West of Twin Peaks, as well as the largest rental housing neighborhood west of the Mississippi – the Villas at Parkmerced. Lake Merced, Harding Park Golf Course, San Francisco State University, City College of San Francisco, … - Paul Hoover
Paul Hoover (born 1946) is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia. His work has been associated with the New York School poets and innovative practices such as language poetry. After many years as poet in residence at Columbia College Chicago, he accepted the position of professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University in 2003. He lives in Mill Valley, California, with his wife, the poet and fiction writer Maxine Chernoff. - Frances Mayes
Frances Mayes (born 1940) is an American university professor, poet, memoirist, essayist, and novelist. Born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, and raised in south central Georgia, Mayes attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and obtained her BA from the University of Florida. In 1975 she earned her MA from San Francisco State University, where she eventually became Professor of Creative Writing, director of The Poetry Center, … - Wayne Peterson
Wayne Peterson (b. 1927, Albert Lea, Minnesota) is a musical composer, pianist, and educator. Peterson earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Minnesota. He did advanced study on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, London, England. In 1960, he joined the faculty of San Francisco State University, reaching the rank of Professor of Music, from which he is now retired. In 1992 the Pulitzer Prize for Music jury, … - Michael Krasny
Michael Krasny is the host and senior editor of KQED-FM radio's award-winning "Forum", a news and public affairs program that covers politics, culture, the arts, health, business and technology. Krasny has served as the host of "Forum" since 1993. Since 1970, Krasny has been a professor of English at San Francisco State University. - Barbara Jane Reyes
Barbara Jane Reyes is an American poet. She was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, and her MFA at San Francisco State University. She is the author of "Gravities of Center" (Arkipelago, 2003) and "Poeta en San Francisco" (Tinfish, 2005), for which she received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. - George Miller
Congressman George Miller is chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. He is a leading advocate in Congress on education, labor, the economy, and the environment. He has represented the 7th District of California in the East Bay of San Francisco since 1975. His district includes portions of Contra Costa and Solano counties, including Richmond, Concord, Martinez, Pittsburg, Vallejo, Benicia and Vacaville. He is a life-long Democrat and Californian. - R. Paul Butler
Paul Butler is an astronomer who searches for extrasolar planets. He has co-discovered two thirds of the approximately 233 extrasolar planets discovered to date. He received a BA and an MS from San Francisco State University, completing a Master's thesis with Geoffrey Marcy, and then completed his doctoral studies at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1993. - S. I. Hayakawa
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18 1906 - February 27 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and political figure. He was an English professor, served as president of San Francisco State University and then a United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was educated in the public schools of Calgary, Alberta and Winnipeg, … - Kathleen Fraser
Kathleen Fraser is a contemporary poet. Her published works include "What I Want" (1974), "Magritte Series" (1977), "New Shoes" (1978), "Each Next", "narratives" (1980), "Something" (even human voices) "in the foreground, a lake" (1984), "Notes Preceding Trust" (1987), "When New Time Folds Up" (1993), "WING" (1995), "il cuore : the heart - New & Selected Poems (1970-1995)" (1997, … - Dolores Huerta
Dolores C. Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is the co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW). She was born in the miningtown of Dawson, New Mexico where her father, Juan Fernandez, was a miner, field worker, union activist and state legislator. Her parents divorced when she was three years old. Her mother, Alicia Chavez, raised Dolores, along with her two brothers, and two sisters, … - John Handy
John Richard Handy III (born February 3, 1933 in Dallas, Texas) is an American jazz alto saxophonist. Handy appeared on four Charles Mingus studio albums recorded in 1959: * "Mingus in Wonderland" * "Blues & Roots" * "Mingus Ah Um" * "Mingus Dynasty" He also made guest appearances on several later Mingus albums. In the 1960s, Handy led several groups. - Kent Bach
Kent Bach is a Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. His primary areas of research include the philosophy of language, linguistics and epistemology. He is the author of three books: "Exit-existentialism: A philosophy of self-awareness", "Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts", and "Thought and Reference" published by Wadsworth, the MIT Press, and Oxford University Press, respectively. - Heather Fong
Heather J. Fong (b. 1956) is chief of police for San Francisco, California, United States. She is the first woman to lead the San Francisco Police Department, and the first Asian American woman to head a major metropolitan city police force. She is also the second Asian police chief in SFPD history, the other being Fred Lau. - Josh Wolf
*Catch me on the Colbert Report this Tuesday June 12th*. - Dana Carvey
Dana Thomas Carvey (born April 2, 1955, in Missoula, Montana) is an American actor and comedian best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and the spin-off movie "Wayne's World". - Kent Nagano
Kent Nagano has established a reputation as a gifted interpreter of both the operatic and symphonic repertoire. The 2006-2007 season is the first he heads as Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal. He is officially the eighth music director of the OSM. In April 2007, he made his first coast-to-coast Canadian tour with the OSM. - Stan Rice
Stan Rice was an American poet and artist and husband of writer Anne Rice (married 1961). He was a Professor of English and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University and retired as Chairman of the Creative Writing Department in 1989. Stan Rice died from brain cancer and was survived by his wife and son, author Christopher Rice. It was the death of the couple's first child, daughter Michele (1966-1972), at age six of leukemia, … - Hatem Bazian
Dr. Hatem Bazian is a senior lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and an adjunct professor at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses on Islamic Law and Society, Islam in America, Religious Studies, and Arabic language. During the Spring of 2006, he taught Middle Eastern Politics at the East Bay's Saint Mary's College of California. He also teaches Arabic and Maliki Fiqh at the Zaytuna Institute. - Arthur Dong
Arthur Dong (born October 30, 1953 in San Francisco, California) is an American documentary filmmaker. He is Chinese American and his work combines the art of the visual medium with an investigation of social issues, examing topics such as Asian American history and identity, and Gay oppression. - Dean H. Kenyon
Dean H. Kenyon is Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Francisco State University and author of a controversial textbook on intelligent design. - Dodie Bellamy
Dodie Bellamy is a novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor, known for her non-traditional use of sexuality, politics, and narrative experimentation. Her work is frequently associated with that of Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, and Eileen Myles. A native of Hammond, Indiana and educated at Indiana University, Bellamy has taught creative writing at many educational institutions, including the San Francisco Art Institute, Mills College, UC Santa Cruz, … - Mike Thompson
C. Michael Thompson (born January 24, 1951), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing (map), which includes Napa, Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte Counties as well as parts of Yolo and Sonoma Counties. He was born in St. Helena, California, was educated at California State University, Chico, served in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade United States Army, … - Richard Oakes
Richard Oakes was a Mohawk Native American activist who promoted the fundamental idea that Native peoples have a right to sovereignty, justice, respect and control over their own destinies. His legacy reflects the struggles of Native peoples and all people to maintain their land, identity, and lifeways. Oakes played an integral part in creating one of the first American Indian Studies departments in the nation. - Bill Nichols
Bill Nichols is an American historian and theoretician of documentary film. His study "Representing Reality. Issues and Concepts in Documentary" covers the theory of documentary film, a topic neglected by mainstream film theory. He has edited the two-volume anthology "Movies and Methods" which helped to define film studies. Bill Nichols is Professor of Cinema and Director of the Graduate Program in Cinema Studies at San Francisco State University. - Craig Baldwin
Craig Baldwin considers his work "underground" rather than "experimental" or "avant-garde". Whereas the avant-garde is primarily concerned with formal exercise, and "experimental" implies some experiment (i.e. that something new is being tried for the purpose of determining whether of not it can expand the limits of cinematic language), "underground" would encompass not only formal plasticity but a political dimension; that of an oppositional subculture. - Jose Cuellar
Jose Cuellar is a professor of La Raza Studies at San Francisco State University. As a saxophone player, he is "Dr. Loco", a nickname given to him by one of his research subjects; in this role, he leads the musical group Dr. Loco's Rockin Jalapeño Rock Band, which plays at a wide range of community events ranging from county fairs and political benefits to educational lectures on Chicano music. Cuellar holds a Ph.D. in anthropology and is a scholar of Chicano culture. - C. D. Wright
C. D. Wright (born 1949) is a U.S. poet. Carolyn D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas to a chancery judge and a court reporter. She earned a BA from Memphis State College (now the University of Memphis) in 1971 and an MFA from the University of Arkansas in 1976. In 1979, she took a position at the San Francisco State University Poetry Center, which exposed her to many of the leading proponents of language poetry. - Robert Bechtle
Robert Bechtle, an American painter, born in San Francisco, California on May 14, 1932. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California, in 1954 and 1958 respectively. He started drawing at a young age and with encouragement from his teachers and family, pursued a future as an artist. He taught at San Francisco State University from 1978 to 1999. - Joseph McBride
Joseph McBride is an American film columnist, screenwriter and professor of film and literature. McBride has written many articles for the "Irish America" magazine and several books on American film history and film directors, such as "Orson Welles" (1972), "Hawks on Hawks" (1982), "Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success" (1992), "Steven Spielberg: A Biography" (1997), "The Book of Movie Lists" (1999), … - David Berlinski
David Berlinski (born 1942 in New York City) is an educator and author of popular books on mathematics. He is a leading proponent of intelligent design, critic of evolution and author of numerous articles on the topic. - William Thomas
I am a US House Representative for the state of CA. I am a Republican. My religion is Baptist. I am Married. I received my BA from San Francisco State University. I received my MA from San Francisco State University. I live in Bakersfield. I was born in Wallace, ID. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "4100 Empire Dr., Ste. 150, Bakersfield, CA 93309". - Myung Mi Kim
Myung Mi Kim (born December 6, 1957) is a Korean American poet noted for her postmodern writings. Kim and her family emigrated to the United States following the Korean War. She holds an Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa and lectured for some years on creative writing at the San Francisco State University. She now lectures and teaches poetry workshops at SUNY Buffalo. - Kim Addonizio
Kim Addonizio (born July 31, 1954) is an award-winning American poet and novelist. Born in Washington, D.C., she is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. She briefly attended Georgetown University before moving to San Francisco and receiving a B.A. and M.F.A. from San Francisco State University. Addonizio's first novel, "Little Beauties", was published by Simon & Schuster in 2005. - Saeb Erekat
Saeb Erakat was the chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee, from which he negotiated with Israel regarding the Oslo Accords from 1995 until his resignation in protest from the Palestinian government, in May 2003. He quickly reconciled with his party, and was reappointed to the post in September 2003. Erekat has participated in numerous peace negotiations with Israel, including Camp David meetings in 2000, and negotiations at Taba in 2001.
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