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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
Paul Veith
Litigation partner
Sidley Austin