Alumni Clips
Doug Emhoff Readies for His Big Moment
Emhoff, 59, was raised in New Jersey and moved to California when he was a teenager. After graduating from California State University, Northridge in 1987, he studied law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. For the next three decades, he had a high-powered career in corporate law that focused on representing companies in media, entertainment and intellectual property cases.
Time Magazine
'Ultimate wingman': Agoura High grad Emhoff could be first first gentleman
Bill Gillette hung out in the same circles as Emhoff. They took several of the same classes at Agoura High, both graduated in ’82 and ended up at Cal State Northridge.
Ventura County Star
This Kinder, Gentler Bill Collector Is Helping People Keep The Lights On
Even before graduating from Cal State Northridge, she worked as an organizer for SEIU Local 715, which represents service workers, knocking on doors of home health care workers, urging them to vote for a union contract. By the time she was 27, she was executive director of the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council, representing over 100 unions and 100,000 workers.
Forbes Magazine
Katie Holloway Bridge Wants You to Call Her a Paralympian
The Lake Stevens, Washington, native was born with a condition called fibular hemimelia, which required doctors to amputate her lower right leg before she was two years old. For most of her life, Holloway Bridge pushed against that disability and jumped headfirst into playing able-bodied sports—excelling in both volleyball and basketball—with her prosthetic leg. She even became the first female amputee to play basketball at the NCAA Division I level at her college, California State University, Northridge. Then, a coach introduced her to sitting volleyball, noting how far she could go in the sport if she embraced her different body and learned to work with it and nurture it. Holloway Bridge did just that, and at age 38, the seasoned outside hitter now has four Paralympic medals (two gold and two silver) under her belt, and is gearing up for the performance of a lifetime with her Team USA this August—all a year and a half after giving birth to her baby girl, Claire, with husband Ryan Bridge.
Harper’s Bazaar
A Harris win would make Doug Emhoff the country’s first first gentleman
Emhoff was born in New York City, was raised in New Jersey, graduated from California State University, Northridge, and attended law school at the University of Southern California. He gave up a lucrative position as an entertainment and intellectual property lawyer to avoid conflicts of interest once Harris became vice president but served as a visiting law professor at Georgetown University after moving to Washington.
PBS
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