Three Beloved Teachers Bid LWHS Temporary Farewell
Three of Lick-Wilmerding’s long-serving teachers—Suzanne Shimek, Martha Stoddard and Goranka Poljak-Hoy—will head off on their sabbaticals next semester. Here’s a look at who they are, […]
Three of Lick-Wilmerding’s long-serving teachers—Suzanne Shimek, Martha Stoddard and Goranka Poljak-Hoy—will head off on their sabbaticals next semester. Here’s a look at who they are, […]
This year, twelve new faculty and staff joined the Lick-Wilmerding community. There’s plenty to learn about these new faces, from instruments they play like didgeridoos […]
Three members of Lick-Wilmerding High School’s Facilities Department are very talented musicians. Ryan Daniel, who until recently was Lick’s Custodial Supervisor (he has left Lick […]
Since 2006, Dr. Chinh Nguyen has brought his infectious energy and kind spirit to Lick-Wilmerding. He has made an unmatched effort to get to know […]
Over the past two years, Lick-Wilmerding High School’s technical arts program has added two new teachers to its rank, Susa Cortez and Elizabeth (Lizzy) Brooks. […]
Rizal Adanza Current Position: Web Editor Department: Communications Faculty Born in San Francisco and raised in Daly City, Rizal Adanza’s favorite thing about the Bay […]
Lissa Crider Lissa Crider started working as Lick-Wilmerding’s librarian in 1994. She helped to envision and design Lick’s new McCullough library, which opened in 1997. […]
Lick-Wilmerding owes the development of a great intellectual resource, its present library program, to Lissa Crider, head librarian at Lick for the past two decades. […]
Tamisha Williams is Lick-Wilmerding’s Dean of Adult Equity and Inclusion. Williams arrived last fall to realize the work of her new position. She has become […]
Lick’s English Department is renowned for its focus on empowering reading, writing, and critical thinking, the diversity of the literary and cultural voices included in […]
On February 24, 95.2% of Lick-Wilmerding High School students participated in the second annual Community Experience Survey, a poll designed to assess belonging across opt-in […]
On March 25, 2026, in landmark court case K.G.M. v Meta, Silicon Valley giants Meta and Google were found guilty of addictive social media design […]
In December of 2025, the Center for Civic Engagement and the Student Council (StuCo) Finance Committee selected five Lick-Wilmerding High School student projects to each […]
As the games close and scoreboards go dark, this year’s spring sports season extends past the accolades and matches: these athletes leave behind a tight-knit […]
On Saturday May 30th, amid the familiar sounds of a weekend morning in the Mission—the hiss of Muni breaks, cars rushing past, friends chatting in […]
Constitutional Hinges,” US History teacher Marissa Cornelius’s senior seminar, is not only a history class, but also, as Cornelius describes it, “Lick-Wilmerding High School’s only […]