We Take Pride in Our Graduates

While at Wat Mongkolratanaram’s Sunday brunch in Berkeley, our Director of Communications and Events, Lesley Jones, ran into Theo and Lena Haber – siblings who both attended Black Pine Circle. With Lena (‘16, studying sociology and statistics at Columbia University) preparing to jet off for a semester abroad in Berlin and Theo (a USC post…

BPC alum, Ian Segall (‘19), is a senior at Berkeley High School and the current Student Director on the BUSD board. After Ian returned to BPC in October for the annual High School Information Night, we were able to catch up with him in December to talk about his current role, his time at BPC,…

Mina Fedor ’21 and her family recently attended the Broadcom MASTERS® finals week in Washington, DC. Her 8th grade MasterWorks science research project, “EEG Theta During Self-Directed Versus Passive Spatial Memory Encoding and Retrieval” was one of 30 finalists in this year’s competition. The Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science evaluated the finalists over a…

BPC Alums Jack Gallagher (‘11) and Sam Schickler (‘15) are working together at Midjourney, an independent research lab that produces AI-created images from text descriptions (Think: typing “cat playing with yarn Da Vinci” into a search bar, and a computer created image akin to a cat playing with yarn in the style of Leonardo Da…

Aisha Tyler, Class of 1981 Aisha Tyler is a talk show host, actress, author, producer, writer, and director. She is known for portraying Andrea Marino in the first season of Ghost Whisperer. “My time at BPC gave me the self-awareness and bravery I needed to trust my intuitive artistic drive as an adult. I developed…

Toan Nguyen, Class of 2012 Toan went to Oakland School of the Arts for high school and studied piano in the School of Instrumental Music. He attended the Berklee College of Music 2016-17 where he studied jazz piano and majored in music. His future plans include a mentorship with Kei Akagi, a jazz pianist who…