a member of the United States House of Representatives, and the following year graduate Nury Martinez became the first Latina president of the Los Angeles City Council. On January 20, 2021, alumnus Doug Emhoff became the first Second Gentleman of the United States as he is the spouse of former Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris.
==== Business ====
CSUN alumni founded Artsy (Wendi Deng Murdoch, co-founded), Haas Automation and Haas F1 Team (Gene Haas), PennyMac Financial Services (Stanford Kurland), and SM Entertainment (Lee Soo-man).
Alumni are or have been CEO of A+E Global Media (Paul Buccieri), the Alfa Group Consortium (Stan Polovets), Autodesk (Andrew Anagnost), Hilton Worldwide (Stephen Bollenbach), and Houlihan Lokey (Scott Beiser).
Alumnus Charles Noski has been a director at Wells Fargo and Microsoft, while also having served as CFO for Bank of America, Northrop Grumman, and AT&T.
==== Entertainment and the arts ====
In entertainment, former students have won:
1 Academy Award by Richard …
