University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Michelle Smallmon

Co-host, "Unsportsmanlike"

ESPN Radio

Sean Long

Corporate director of programming, Weigel Broadcasting

2-time Emmy-winning Illini Media Hall of Famer

CeCe (Marizu) Cooper

Swimming star turned senior content producer for Apple Fitness+

Earned UI degrees in broadcast journalism (2010), education policy studies (2012)

Chloe Pistorius

Producer

Golf Channel

Jennifer Roscoe

WCIA-TV anchor

2024 homecoming parade grand marshal

Monica Eng

Chicago reporter, Axios

Five-time James Beard Award nominee

Emily (Klopf) Gardner

MillerCoors local media manager

2017 Homecoming Comeback Award winner

Sandra Hughes Kazarian

Correspondent

CBS News

Brent Brotine

Chicago advertising creative director

Current freelance copywriter

Jayda Imanlihen

Director of Multimedia Design & Production, Bovard College, University of Southern California

Executive Director, Black Girl Film School

Kristen Ball

Executive director, American Society of Pharmacy Law

Associate manager, Illinois Council of Convention & Visitor Bureaus

Stu Werner

Multiplatform editor

The Washington Post

Saira Anwer

​Two-time Emmy-nominated reporter

WPLG-TV, Miami

Toccara Castleman

Senior editor/writer, Syfy.com and USANetwork.com

NBC Universal

Nisha Chittal

Director of audience and engagement

Vox.com

Carol Marin

Peabody Award-winning Chicago broadcast journalist

1997 Chicago Illini of Year

Jay Rosenstein

Peabody and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker

UI Professor, Media and Cinema Studies

Ross Cavitt

Former Emmy-winning Atlanta TV reporter

Cobb (Ga,) County communications director

Angela Sinickas

2020 Alumni Achievement Award

International corporate communication researcher

Avis (Sampson) LaVelle

Former press secretary to Chicago Mayor Richard Daly

Executive director, Business Leadership Council

Matt Brickman

Meteorologist

WNBC-TV

Mario Parker

White House reporter

Bloomberg News

Lyanne Alfaro

Supervising producer, social media content director

Nasdaq

Mark Stryker

Author, ‘Jazz from Detroit’

Award-winning arts reporter/critic