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Ronaldo Maghirang

Professor and head

UI Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Hope Michelson

Professor, Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics

Urbana native

Kim Kidwell

Associate Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships & Initiatives

Dean, College of ACES, 2016-21

Janet Hoffman Mathis

2021 ACES Award of Merit recipient

President/CEO, Elevate Illinois

Jack Groppel

Former Illini men’s tennis coach (1978-81)

Co-founder, Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute

Gabe Walder

Executive director

Alliance for Children Everywhere

Jeff Tarte

State senator

North Carolina

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Anne Rodiek Bakke

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Scott Shearer

Bockorny Group VP

USDA deputy ass’t secretary (1993-96)

Manuel Colón

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Mariam Sobh

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Susan Johnson

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David Chicoine

ACES dean, 1995-2001

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