University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Josh Whitman

Illini athletic director

2017 Central Illinois Business Magazine Forty Under 40 Man of the Year

Mansi Shah

Author, 'The Taste of Ginger’

Senior VP/Legal, Warner Bros. Entertainment

Libby Tyler

Planning manager, City of San Pablo, Calif.

Former Urbana community development director

Amber McReynolds

CEO, National Vote At Home Institute and Coalition

Co-author, ‘When Women Vote’

Adria Olmi

Supervisory librarian

Army Logistics University Library

Matt Kramer

Assistant general counsel

Jimmy John’s

Larry Deutsch

Chief innovation officer

Blue Chip Marketing Worldwide

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Dr. Erik Antonsen

Assistant Director, Human Systems Risk Management

NASA

Gretchen Thompson

Owner, managing partner

IMPACT Physical Therapy of Champaign

Erin McNary

Assistant professor, sport administration

University of Miami

Cesar Escalante

Professor, University of Georgia

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics

Stacy Walton Long

Indianapolis law partner

Krieg DeVault LLP

Sara Hays

Market development manager

Starbucks

Cara Maurizi

Music, drama, dance teacher

Urbana school district

Michael Gunderson

Professor/Director, Center for Food & Agricultural Business

Purdue University

Shannon Beranek

Transportation engineer

City of Urbana

B.J. Ogata

Former Illini tight end

2000 Academic All-Big Ten pick

Debra Laefer

NYU urban informatics professor

Director of Citizen Science

Michael Pan

Founder

Panco Foods

Bill Self

3 seasons, 3 NCAA tournaments

78-24 as Illini basketball coach (2000-03)

Ron Turner

Football coach, 1997-2004

Took ’01 Illini to Sugar Bowl

Beth Ferrick

Vice president, HR

Bayer

Khizer Husain

Director of external relations

Two Rivers Public Charter School

Darius Spieth

Professor of art history

LSU

Jake Livengood

Director of career services

Tufts School of Medicine