• Dianne Easton Retirement Celebration
• Applications Now Open for Class of 2025
• Next Alumni Event - June 5th
• Current Cohort Update
• Alumni - Get Involved

On Thursday April 11th, 2024 around 300 LSF alumni and friends came together to wish Dianne a happy retirement after 35+ years as the Executive Director of Leadership San Francisco.

A huge thanks to Alumna Sara Grauf (Class of 2009) and the SF Giants who hosted a magical evening on the field where we got to run the bases, view the three World Series trophies, and take a few swings in the batting cages. 

Recap & Official Pictures Coming Soon!

Recruiting has begun for our next cohort and I'm asking all alumni to nominate an applicant for next year's class. 

We are hosting two info-sessions at the SF Chamber of Commerce, please encourage anyone interested to attend:

- Wednesday, May 1st at 4pm

- Wednesday, May 22nd at 4pm

235 Montgomery Street - 7th Floor

Deadline to Apply is May 31st.  More information on the LSF Website:

Save the Date - June 5th at 2pm

LSF will be receiving a private behind the scene tour of Treasure Island and hearing from developer Chris Meany on the long term plan for the island.

More Details coming soon... 

Class of 2024

April: Session 8

Topic:  Artificial Intelligence

Hosted by:  The Exploratorium

Session 8 featured an inaugural topic—Artificial Intelligence—and was hosted at The Exploratorium. The planning group spent an extraordinary amount of time educating themselves on this new technology. They attended seminars and speeches to figure out who the main players were in this space. Through this effort, they built out a robust day consisting of 9 experts in various fields of AI.

They started the day with general education, fundamentals, and hands-on learning with AI consultant Alison McCauley. The second half of the morning included thought leaders Mickey McManus (Boston Consulting Group), Toshi Hoo (Emerging Media Lab), Sherry Wong, and Catherine Bracy. This included content around understanding the risk of bias and how revolutionary AI may be, plus conversations around ethics, justice, and AI policy challenges.  

The afternoon shifted focus and got more local.  We heard from the Mayor's Director of Innovation, Sophia Kittler, on how San Francisco is planning to integrate AI. As well as our City Attorney, David Chiu (LSF Class of 2003), who talked about some of the risks that he worries about.  Peter Hirshberg demoed functioning tools that are modeling innovative new spaces, buildings, and urban downtowns, highlighting the value and urgency of this technology.

We spent the rest of the day examining how AI will change the future and ended with a great exercise in which we opened our minds and imagined all of the accomplishments that AI could achieve in the next few years.

We Need Your Help

(LSF depends on our Alumni to help keep the program running smoothly) 

• Attend Info-Session #1 -  Help recruit the Class of 2025.  We need a handful of Alumni to attend our Info Session on Wednesday, May 1st at the SF Chamber of Commerce. 4:00pm - 5:30pm

• Attend Info-Session #2 -  Wednesday, May 22nd at the SF Chamber of Commerce. 4:00pm - 5:30pm

• Alumni Relations Committee -  We have formed a committee dedicated to engaging our alumni more. Join our Committee! 

If you are available, please let Mike Z know by replying to this email.