University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Paola Boivin

Selection committee member

College Football Playoff

Debby Goldsberry

Co-founder

United Cannabis Collective

Edna Greene Medford

Lincoln Laureate

2013 LAS Alumni Award

Jill Wine-Banks

Watergate prosecutor

Led American Bar Assn.

Stephen Moore

Heritage Foundation fellow

Former Trump advisor

Julie Bensman

Host, writer, producer

Created BBC’s ‘RSVP Abroad’

Stephen Elliott

Author, activist

Editor-in-chief, The Rumpus

Dave Eggers

Best-selling author

Time Book of Year winner

Bill Nack

Sports Illustrated legend

Died in April 2018

Dan Savage

Sex-advice columnist

Writes ‘Savage Love´

Prashanth Venkatramanujam

Comedian/writer

‘Bill Nye Saves the World’

Dan Balz

Chief correspondent

The Washington Post

Sima Dahl

International speaker

Personal branding specialist

Sheldon Siegel

Author

2012 Illini Comeback Award

Bill Geist

Author, columnist, humorist

Won Emmys in 1992, 2005

Mary Doria Russell

Science fiction author

2-time Pulitzer nominee

Jacquelyn Mitchard

Author

‘The Deep End of the Ocean’

Paul Ingrassia

Shared 1993 Pulitzer for beat reporting

Died in 2019 at age 69

Dave Cullen

Author

Wrote best-seller 'Columbine'