University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Emily (Klopf) Gardner

MillerCoors local media manager

2017 Homecoming Comeback Award winner

Sandra Hughes Kazarian

Correspondent

CBS News

Tim Killeen

President

UI system

Brent Brotine

Chicago advertising creative director

Current freelance copywriter

Craig Lundstrom

Head/professor

UI Department of Geology

Cheryl Quinn

LAS Alumni Achievement Award

QnA Pharma Consulting, LLC

Jennifer Robbennolt

Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law

Co-Director, Illinois Program on Law, Behavior and Social Science

Jeff Brown

Dean, Gies College of Business

Margot Lakonishok Professor of Business

Jason Mazzone

UI Albert E. Jenner Jr. Professor of Law

Director, Program in Constitutional Theory, History and Law

Jonathan Sweedler

James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry

Director, UI School of Chemical Sciences

Jeff Trapp

Blue Waters Professor

Head, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Mark Wolters

Teaching Associate Professor of Business Administration; Academic Director, Marketing Major

Globetrotting host of 'Wolters World' YouTube channel

Rasheda Ali Walsh

Speaker, author

Daughter of Muhammad Ali

Raul Gouvea

Professor, International Management

University of New Mexico

Karle Flanagan

UI Senior Instructor of Statistics

2019 recipient of Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Adria Olmi

Supervisory librarian

Army Logistics University Library

Timothy Bracken

Director, affordable housing team

Berkadia

Alexandra Turcios

Strategy and consulting, Accenture

Founder, Built-in Detroit

Ross Cavitt

Former Emmy-winning Atlanta TV reporter

Cobb (Ga,) County communications director

Kelvin Droegemeier

UI atmospheric sciences professor and special advisor to the chancellor

Former director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Ann McBrien

First woman to serve as VP/sales at Procter & Gamble

Started UIAA Comeback program, Illini Pride founding board member

Avis (Sampson) LaVelle

Former press secretary to Chicago Mayor Richard Daly

Executive director, Business Leadership Council

Art Kramer

Beckman Institute director, 2010-16

Professor/center director, Northeastern University

David Tomasko

Associate dean and professor

Ohio State College of Engineering