University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Monica Eng

Chicago reporter, Axios

Five-time James Beard Award nominee

Brent Brotine

Chicago advertising creative director

Current freelance copywriter

Jaime Torres

General manager/sports attorney

International Baseball Sports Management, Inc.

Dr. Michael Adkesson

President/CEO

Chicago Zoological Sociey

Ugur Uygur

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship

Loyola University of Chicago

Dr. Julie Morita

Executive VP, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health (2015-19)

Dave Cocagne

President/CEO, Vermilion Development

Chairman, Silver Birch Living

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Rosanna Marquez

Illinois state president

AARP

Erica Bauer

Director of community relations , Chicago Bulls

Founder, Girl Power Songs

Karin (Dommermuth) O'Connor

Clinical Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Northwestern U

Executive Director, Heizer Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital

Pam Kuforiji

Past president, UI Black Alumni Network

AVID coordinator, Tefft Middle School of Streamwood

Catherine Koerner

Orion program manager

NASA

Allison Semmes

Broadway performer

Starred as Diana Ross in ‘Motown the Musical’

Carol Marin

Peabody Award-winning Chicago broadcast journalist

1997 Chicago Illini of Year

Darnell Leatherwood

Founder, Black Boys Shine!

Founding member, My Brother's Keeper Alliance Action Team

Myles Gage

COO and co-founder

Rapunzl Investments

Angela Sinickas

2020 Alumni Achievement Award

International corporate communication researcher

Avis (Sampson) LaVelle

Former press secretary to Chicago Mayor Richard Daly

Executive director, Business Leadership Council

Adrian Hochstadt

Deputy CEO

American Veterinary Medical Association

Meg Bates

U of Chicago senior research and evaluation scientist

Director of digital teacher learning research

Kevin Jackson

Hematology program manager

Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute

Dr. Christopher Hicks

Clinical Associate of Orthopeadic Surgery/Rehabilitation, University of Chicago

Team physician, WNBA’s Chicago Sky

Mario Parker

White House reporter

Bloomberg News

Michael Albert

Sign language interpreter

Chicago Hearing Society

Dr. Garth Walker

Emergency physician

Jesse Brown Veteran Affairs