2026 Hall of Fame Inductee:
Seth Rosenfeld, Class of 1990
Seth Rosenfeld, ‘90, is an investigative journalist and author of the 2012 New York Times best-seller, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power. As a journalism student writing for The Daily Californian in 1981, he began the arduous research that led to Subversives, a three-decade Freedom of Information Act odyssey. The book reveals how J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI tried to silence the 1964 Free Speech Movement, and fire UC President Clark Kerr because bureau officials disagreed with his campus policies and gave Ronald Reagan personal and political favors. Rosenfeld pursued this FOIA project separately while working 25 years as a staff reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner, where he received the George Polk Award and other national honors.