University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Gabe Walder

Executive director

Alliance for Children Everywhere

Lyanne Alfaro

Supervising producer, social media content director

Nasdaq

Susan Tjarksen

Managing director

Cushman & Wakefield

Erik Dane

Associate professor of management

Rice University

Jasmine Hernandez

Staff attorney

Department of Veterans Affairs

Danielle Patterson

Associate attorney, Spiros Law

UI Law Alumni Professional Development Award winner

Reese Reynolds

Director, Human Resources

Lockheed Martin Space

Punya Mishra

Associate dean and professor

Arizona State University

Anna Benjamin

Associate judge

Champaign County

Chris Myers

VP/Advanced Technology

John Deere

Kim Judson

Professor of marketing

Illinois State University

Mark Stryker

Author, ‘Jazz from Detroit’

Award-winning arts reporter/critic

Sarah Holst Schryer

Assistant state’s attorney

Tazewell County

Paul Veith

Litigation partner

Sidley Austin

Scot Hollonbeck

Gold medal-winning Paralympian

Sustainable residential property developer

Mike Malsch

Legal attaché

FBI

Seth Miller

Superintendent

Westville school district

Emily (Kline) Bucarich

Director of learning and development content

National Restaurant Association

Julie Freischlag

CEO, Wake Forest Baptist Health

Dean, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Mary Dugenske

VP, Consumer Experience

Alight Solutions

Lou Liay

2023 honorary doctorate recipient

Namesake of UIAA's Lou Liay Spirit Award

Don Edwards

Flexpoint Ford CEO

Chair, UI board of trustees

Julie Rodrigues Widholm

Director and chief curator

DePaul Art Museum

Rebecca (Diaz) Luebbert

Director of career and business engagement

University of Minnesota Alumni Association