Lowell High School SF Alumni

Home
United States
San Francisco, CA
Lowell High School SF Alumni

Call Directions Website

The Lowell Alumni Association maintains and enhances relationships that serve and support our alumni

10/09/2026

15 days until Homecoming. 🏈

Saturday, October 24, we’re back on campus at 1101 Eucalyptus Drive. Three Cardinals football games, coffee and donuts at the bleachers, and familiar faces from every decade. Whether you graduated last year or last century, this one’s for you.

Help us plan food and welcome bags for everyone. Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 14: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSf3C6-ks_TFDkVQFUkQyuNN7GTiAf3PnsBF6oI6KwQnIeOrfQ/viewform?usp=send_form&pli=1&authuser=0

10/08/2026

Alumni Spotlight: Sunil Kapadia '92

Engineer. Consultant. Operator. Sunil Kapadia has worn a lot of hats, and they all lead back to one idea: technology doesn't transform businesses, people do.

After Lowell, Sunil studied computer engineering at Cal Poly and started out writing software at Intel and Walmart.com. Then came an MBA from Kellogg, seven years at Boston Consulting Group, and leadership roles in media and advertising. Today he's back home in San Francisco as Director of Transformation at Google, helping one of the world's biggest companies figure out how people and AI can work together.

From Lowell to the front lines of AI, we're proud to call him one of our own.

10/06/2026

Alumni Spotlight: Mikhail Kazantsev '06

Mikhail Kazantsev '06 has spent his career turning complex technology into products people use every day.

His experience at Meta includes custom AI model training, evaluation, and tooling, along with developer infrastructure and crash analytics for Reality Labs and Facebook. His work spans the full lifecycle of software and AI systems, for products used by billions of people and the engineers behind them. Before that, he spent seven years at Accenture leading programs for The Walt Disney Company, Google, and Cisco. At Disney, he led engineering teams through the launch of Disney Movies Anywhere across iOS, Android, Roku, and Xbox, which reached #1 among free apps on the iOS App Store. He also managed the digital release of Star Wars across major storefronts.

Mikhail began his career in planning and engineering at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and holds a B.S. from the University of Southern California. A technologist at heart, he continues to deepen his expertise in AI/machine learning, software development, security, and hardware. Today he also serves on the Lowell High School Alumni Board.

It started at Lowell.

10/01/2026

Kate Lazarus '01 still remembers the class that clicked: AP Economics with Mr. Spellicy. Just enough math to keep up, plus the policy and governance questions she loved.

That connection to Lowell never faded. Kate served as president of the Alumni Association during the effort to restore Lowell's selective admissions, and today she chairs the Nominations Committee, bringing in the next generation of alumni directors.

Her take on what makes Lowell special: "There's just somebody for everybody there... No matter what your interest is, you'll find a group of people that you can connect with."

Who was the teacher that made Lowell click for you? Tell us in the comments. 👇

09/29/2026

A full Meyer Room, a lot of matcha, and a room of Lowell students writing letters to their future selves.

On September 24, the Lowell chapter of the Women's Youth Writing Association (WYWA), a youth-led organization that empowers young women through storytelling, leadership, and creative expression, hosted Envision Your Year in the Lowell Library. Students spent the afternoon building personalized mood boards and writing letters that the club will mail back to them at the end of the school year.

The Lowell High School Alumni Association was proud to sponsor the craft supplies and matcha. The Meyer Room was packed, and it was the chapter's most gender-diverse event of the year so far, with both young women and young men showing up to support WYWA's mission and take time to reflect.

Our thanks to WYWA's student leaders for creating a space where writing helps students slow down and imagine the year ahead. We can't wait to see what these future alumni write next.

09/27/2026

Same red banner. A lot of new ideas.

Our board spent Saturday at Lake Merced Golf Club talking about the future of the Lowell Alumni Association. We started by sharing favorite Lowell memories, with stories spanning decades of classes, then got to work on how we can better serve alumni, students, and the school for years to come.

Thank you to every director who gave up a Saturday for this. More soon.

09/24/2026

Dr. Emily Moody has spent her career making sure kids get a healthy start.

Before medical school, she served an AmeriCorps term with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, running health screenings for children under five in child care settings and writing reports for the city's oral health strategic plan. With Prevent Blindness Northern California, she helped screen the vision of more than 9,000 preschoolers across 10 Bay Area school districts and Head Start programs.

After Lowell, Emily earned her B.A. in Biology and Science in Society from Wesleyan University and her M.D. from the UC Davis School of Medicine. Today she is a Pediatric Resident at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.

It started at Lowell.

09/17/2026

"I'm just a guy trying to study."

That's what Laurance Lee '88 told his counselor when she sat him down freshman year and asked who he really was. Joan Catelli wasn't satisfied with the surface answer. She wanted to know what made him tick, what he cared about, what he was working toward. Laurance says that conversation is where he started to actually understand himself, not just get through his classes.

Now he's Treasurer on the Alumni Board, and he sees that same spirit reflected in the board's work: grants and scholarships that reach students and educators all across Lowell. He calls it a place that builds you up and launches you, the kind of place that's sent graduates on to win Nobel Prizes, write books, and act on stages and screens.

Every Lowell story starts somewhere different. Laurance's started with one teacher who asked the right question.

Watch his full story below. 👇

09/15/2026

Lowell Orchestra is taking their talents to two of San Francisco's most beautiful settings this fall. Their new concert series kicks off at Grace Cathedral on September 30, with a second stop at the Cathedral of Saint Mary on November 7. If you've ever heard these students play, you know it's worth the trip. Come support them, and bring family. Full details in the poster, mark your calendars!

09/14/2026

We're hiring, and we'd love your help spreading the word.

Earlier this year we finished moving our alumni database to a new cloud-based system. Now we need someone to take the wheel: keeping our data clean, building out reporting, and helping us actually use it to stay connected with the Lowell community, from fundraising to events to the newsletter.

It's a remote contractor role, and a great fit for someone who loves being the person who makes an organization's data actually useful.

If you or someone in your network has nonprofit CRM experience, we'd love to hear from you. Full job description here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ApAwRff6BWpXwauv_zyrXhgawb48E46h_tWbgES2CM/edit?tab=t.0

Questions? Reach us at [email protected].

Address

PO Box 320009
San Francisco, CA
94132

Telephone

+14157597830

Website

http://www.lowellalumni.org/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Lowell High School SF Alumni posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Want your school to be the top-listed school/college in San Francisco?