Miller Fong, who for many years has taught a USC School of Architecture class known as “Architect’s Sketchbook,” likes to share his “gift of design, drawing and visualizing” with the young architects he teaches. “The journey from head to hand to paper is very different...
Justin Chang is a film critic for the Los Angeles Times as well as NPR’s “Fresh Air,” and contributes regularly to KPCC radio’s “Film Week.” Before his gig at the Times, he was the chief film critic at Variety, where he started as an intern. Chang...
Julie Chen and her husband, Leslie Moonves, are the donors behind a naming gift to the two-story, 20,000-square-foot Julie Chen/Leslie Moonves and CBS Media Center at Wallis Annenberg Hall. Chen hosts two CBS shows, The Talk and Big Brother, and Moonves is president and CEO...
Since graduating from the USC Marshall School of Business, Melissa Ward has achieved two historic firsts: she is the first African-American woman to serve as both a U.S. Air Force flight instructor and commercial airline pilot. Yet when the Chicago native enrolled at USC...
One of the founding members of the USC Lambda LGBTQ+ Alumni Association, Amy Ross has been active in the Los Angeles-area LGBT community for over 30 years. While working as a lab technician at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, she joined the...
Alpha Mulugeta performed in drag for the first time in a USC School of Cinematic Arts student production; years later, while earning his master’s in social work from the University of California, Berkeley, he began performing in Berkeley and Oakland drag venues as Honey...
It was two short films—Crabgrass Manifesto and Something Close to Heaven—that got Jason Clodfelter’s foot in the proverbial Hollywood door. Veteran director Paris Barclay saw the films, produced by Clodfelter, and hired the USC School of Cinematic Arts graduate to work for him at...
Noel Alumit is a rarity: an actor with several film, television and stage credits and an acclaimed novelist. His debut novel, Letters to Montgomery Clift, received many awards, including the Stonewall Book Award, the Violet Quill Award and the Global Filipino Literary Award. His...