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Alumni

Mark Day alumni make up a diverse and notable group - educators, business owners, engineers, artists, lawyers, graphic designers, archeologists, doctors, musicians, historians, and more. Whether they graduated in 1983 or 2023, our alumni are part of an extensive community with a central shared experience.

Meet Our Alumni

Jack Conte '98

From his earliest school days at Mark Day to founding Patreon - a revolutionary online platform for more than 250,000 musicians, writers, and other artists - Jack's path has been shaped by creativity and a dedication to music and the arts. "At Mark Day, music and drama were my favorites," he recalls. After the drama teacher told Jack's parents he was quite talented, a number of opportunities opened up, including landing an agent and doing commercial work and voiceover gigs. Jack's creative pursuits continued through high school at Brandon and into his university years at Stanford, experiences that would later inform his perspective on the relationship between creators and technology. Even while running Patreon, a company that now employs more than 450 people globally, Conte maintains his creative pursuits, including making music with Pomplamoose. Looking back at his time at Mark Day, he says, "I think about how I developed a love of curiosity and skepticism and asking questions. I learned how to learn at Mark Day, which was so valuable."

Alex Sim '11

After graduating from Branson in 2015 and Duke University in 2019, Alex channeled his intellectual curiosity into law school at NYI, where he discovered that the same inquisitive spirit that drew him to the Mark Day School library would serve him well in navigating intricate legal challenges. Today, as a second-year associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Palo Alto, Alex applies that curiosity to commercial litigation and contractual disputes, while developing a particular interest in the emerging questions surrounding creative rights in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. In his spare time, Alex plays tennis and basketball, and he has a lifelong love for reading, a passion he attributes to the encouragement he received at Mark Day School. He says, "Some of my closest friends today are the ones I made at Mark Day School. It was a safe place to explore who I was going to become. Academically and socially, I learned how to interact with others, and I had the safety to let loose and truly be myself. That confidence in just being myself has been invaluable throughout my life."

Alison Savage-Brooks '15

Following her time at Mark Day, Alison attended Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco. Her journey then took on an adventurous turn as she embarked on a gap year, working at a Boston startup and hiking the Camino de Santiago in Spain. At UC Berkeley, Alison pursued applied mathematics with a focus on energy systems, driven by her dedication to address climate challenges. She also became the president of the Bay Area Environmentally Aware Consulting Network and spent a semester abroad in Taiwan. Today, she works as an electricity consultant at The Brattle Group in New York City, where she focuses on grid resilience and wholesale market modeling. Alison believes that the foundation for her success was laid during her years at Mark Day School, particularly in mathematics and language studies. 

Read more alumni profiles in The Marker Magazine.

Common High Schools & Universities

Where do Mark Day School students go after they graduate? The following high schools and universities comprise a partial list of where our alumni continue their education.

High Schools
Archie Williams High School
Cate School
Convent and Sacred Heart
Marin Academy
Marin Catholic
Novato High School/MSA
Phillips Academy Andover
Redwood High School
San Domenico School
San Francisco University High School
Sonoma Academy
Tabor Academy
Tamalpais High School
Terra Linda High School/MSEL
The Bay School of San Francisco
The Branson School
The Lawrenceville School
The Nueva School
The Thacher School
The Urban School of San Francisco
San Rafael High School
San Marin High School/STEM
Stevenson School

Universities
American University
Bard College
Barnard College
Berklee College of Music
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Brown University
Bucknell University
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Colgate University
Colorado College
Columbia University
Cornell University
CU Boulder
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Emory University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Lehigh University
Loyola Marymount
Macalaster College
Middlebury College
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
New York University
Occidental College
Pitzer College
Princeton University
Purdue University
Rhode Island School of Design
Rice University
Scripps College
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
Tufts University
Tulane University
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Washington
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCLA
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
University of Miami
USC
Vanderbilt University
Wake Forest University
Washington University
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Yale University

Upcoming Alumni Events

Trivia Night
June 4, 2026
5:30-7:00pm
Mark Day Gym

Alumni Breakfast
June 11, 2026
8:30-11:00am
Mark Day Courtyard

We want to hear from you!

Contact Christine Maguire, Development Associate, at 415-472-8000 x1016 or email alumni@markdayschool.org to give us an update.