University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Tameka Phillips

Study director

Covance Laboratories

John Fanning

Director of college access

Aspire Public Schools

Jennifer Chochola Tan

PR manager

Newport Aquarium

Jennifer Kuechler

COO

Strategic Link Consulting

Sydney Jarrett Williams

Project/portfolio manager

Syngenta

Chris Beard

Nike director

Global integrated media

Joe Poindexter

Senior VP/digital

Pulse Music Group

Leslie Hicks

Assistant professor

UNC-Chapel Hill

Cassandra Chaney

LSU professor

Child and Family Studies

Royel Johnson

Assistant professor

Penn State

Lynn Solar

aka Marilyn Cosby

Singer, songwriter

Bruce Miller

VP/global account director

Schlumberger

Phil Hockberger

Associate VP/research

Northwestern University

Colleen Keough Wagner

Fiction author, editor

aka ‘Rumer Haven’

Anthony McClellan

Illini tight end

CRBE, Chattanooga

Maria Carrillo

Chief science officer

Alzheimer’s Association

Michael Smeltzer

Photojournalist

Former UI professor

Denise Drace-Brownell

CEO

DDB Technology

Nik Lapin

Sr. manager/partnerships

EZLinks Golf LLC

Naomi Hill

Business continuity analyst

AARP

Sheila Burns

Managing director

Building 12 Communications

Anne Valente

Acclaimed author

Professor, Hamilton College

Louis Margaglione

Senior VP

BMO Harris Bank

Chris George

Chicago attorney

Intellectual property