Ralston Peregrine Louie was born July 22, 1992, in San Francisco, making him a sixth-generation Californian. Two months after he was born, the family moved to Piedmont where he grew up on sports and museums, owing to his father, a longtime professor at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Celebrating the life and legacy of SCA student Ralston Louie

East Bay filmmaker Ralston Louie, 28, dies while swimming