University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Stephanie Moore

Assistant dean of the arts

University of California-Santa Cruz

Mark Stryker

Author, ‘Jazz from Detroit’

Award-winning arts reporter/critic

Sharony Green

Associate professor of history

University of Alabama

Chris Gerrib

Author, IT project manager

Addison Group

Ruth Wyman

Champaign County attorney

2020 Circuit Judge candidate

John Matras

Automotive writer, photographer

Owner, John Matras Media LLC

Jim Tenzillo

Director

Invest Michigan

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Brendan McGinty

Director of Industry

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Jim Misener

Principal/President

50,000feet

Elizabeth Milnarik

Adjunct professor

University of Virginia

Erica Knievel Songer

Chief counsel

United States Senate

B.J. Ogata

Former Illini tight end

2000 Academic All-Big Ten pick

Stanley Eisenstein

Chicago attorney

Katz, Friedman, Eagle, Eisenstein, Johnson & Bareck

Mark John Sanchez

Lecturer of history, literature

Harvard University

Dorothy Capers

Senior VP, general counsel

National Express LLC

Bayo Ojikutu

Award-winning author

‘47th Street Black,’ ‘Free Burning’

Tom Dowling

UI’s 10th Rhodes scholar

Lightfoot for Chicago advisor

Bryan Freres

Assistant U.S. attorney

Degrees in history, law

Kurt Hettinger

Assistant gymnastics coach

Auburn University

Darius Spieth

Professor of art history

LSU

Aja Favors

Associate general counsel

Evangelical Lutheran Church

Rayvon Fouche

American Studies professor, director

Purdue University

Charles Shields

Literary biographer, playwright

New York Times best-seller

David Krugler

History professor

Wisconsin-Platteville

Kyle Mays

Assistant professor

UCLA