University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Jens Kujawa

1992 Summer Olympian

7-foot UI center

Dan Little

Chancellor

U of Michigan-Dearborn

John McDonald

U.S. ambassador

Died in May 2019

Katarina Mescal-Pevzner

VP, marketing

Panoply Media

Samir Mirza

Former Twitter engineer

Advisor/investor

Ryan Neiswender

Basketball Paralympian

Plays professionally in Germany

Idun Reiten

Norwegian mathematician

Humboldt Research Prize

Ilina Scott

Lead creative strategist

Google of Northern Europe

Artan Sheshmani

Associate professor, Center for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces

Mathematician, Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences And Applications

Michele Steele

Anchor/reporter

ESPN

George Symeonides

Vice-consul/foreign service

U.S. State Department

Genevieve Thoris

Founder & CEO

We Do Hair of Paris

Juan Uribe

Deputy head of mission

Colombian Embassy, Spain

Ashley Valentine

Co-founder and president

Washington, D.C.-based Sick Cells