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People 312 Award winners

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Sarah Houghton

aka 'Librarian in Black'

San Rafael Public Library

Glenn Howatt

Pulitzer-winning reporter

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Freeman Hrabowski

President, UMBC

One of Time’s ‘Most Influential'

Jeff Huber

CEO, Grail

Former Google exec

Stan Ikenberry

UI’s 14th president, 1979-95

Longest-serving president

Paul Ingrassia

Shared 1993 Pulitzer for beat reporting

Died in 2019 at age 69

Amir Isfahani

President/CEO

Flow Science, Inc.

Kevin Jackson

Hematology program manager

Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute

Mannie Jackson

Basketball Hall of Famer

CEO, Harlem Globetrotters

Wei Wei Jeang

Texas attorney

Grable Martin Fulton PLLC

Donald Johanson

Paleoanthropologist

Discovered Lucy skeleton

Jeff Johnson

President, Hearst newspaper division

Former San Francisco Chronicle publisher

Nisa (Agrawal) Johnson

Brand manager

Modelo Especial/Constellation Brands

Susan Johnson

ACES Award of Merit

U of Colorado professor

Erika Jones

Leadership development facilitator

United Airlines

Rick Kaplan

TV executive

Ex-president, CNN, MSNBC

Dale Kempf

Abbvie distinguished research fellow

Director of Neglected Diseases Research

Rob Kennedy

President

C-SPAN

Colleen Keough Wagner

Fiction author, editor

aka ‘Rumer Haven’

Kim Kidwell

Associate Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships & Initiatives

Dean, College of ACES, 2016-21

John Kim

Pulitzer-winning photographer

Chicago Tribune

Jack Klues

Media executive

Donated $1M in 2015

Paul Koch

Chicago-based consultant

Distinguished Alumni Award

Diane Kovacs

Web teacher/librarian

Alumni Leadership Award