SI In The News

When Joey Toboni '03 and Tim Szarnicki '04 talk about The Affordability Project, they say they often get the same response: "What is in it for you?" Such is the housing landscape in San Francisco that even after they explain that they founded The Affordability Project as a nonprofit so they could quickly and sustainably build housing in San Francisco for broad swathes of working people, and that contributing to the social and economic health of the city is their full goal, they are still often met with confusion.

During the 2022-23 school year, educators with Teach With Africa and the Global Teachers Institute visited SI as part of their international exchange program. While their visit was brief, several of those educators made connections that led to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Assistant Principal for Community Formation and Culture Dr. Tasia Davis, who traveled to South Africa this summer to join them at a multi-day professional development summit, which included workshops, school observations, and after school program visits.

In May, Robert Vergara ’76 was appointed to the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission by Mayor London Breed. Mr. Vergara, who started working at SI in 1982, is a social science teacher and has also been the school's athletic director and archivist.

In order to give his sophomore religious studies students a better feel for the social and economic context of Roman-occupied Palestine, Christian Rodriguez devised a role-playing game for his classes to play.

In December, 2022, Manuel P. Micaller, Jr. ’89 was confirmed by the United States Senate to be the country's next ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan.