University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Punya Mishra

Associate dean and professor

Arizona State University

Mwenda Ntarangwi

Kenya-based Secretary, CEO

Commission for University Education

Ngozi Okorafor

Director of employment actions

Cook County Sheriff's Department

Cory Overstreet

Principal

Kellogg Elementary, Chicago

Anisha Ismail Patel

Education consultant

CEO, InnovusED

Anna Patterson

Founder, Gradient Ventures

Google

Brandon Peele

Leadership consultant

Served on Interfraternity Council

Ian Punnett

‘Coast to Coast AM’ weekend host

K-State professor

Portland Reed

Global solutions head

Vita Global, Inc.

Trevor Riggen

Senior VP, Disaster Cycle Services

American Red Cross

Jay Rosenstein

Peabody and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker

UI Professor, Media and Cinema Studies

Jaime Roundtree

Director of curriculum and instruction, Rantoul City Schools

Former principal at Champaign's Booker T. Washington STEM Academy

Russel Simmons

CTO and co-founder

Yelp

Lou Sola

Trump-appointed Federal Maritime Commissioner

Miami mega-yacht salesman

Madhu Southworth

Senior VP/legal

AMC Entertainment

Holly Spangler

Senior editor

Penton Agriculture

Bridgett Wakefield

Project architect, Reifsteck Reid & Co.

Parkland professor

Randy Whitecotton

Emergency management chief

Department of Defense