University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Pat Embry

Nonprofit executive

Nashville, Tenn.

Larry Woiwode

N. Dakota’s poet laureate

Award-winning novelist

Ann Lee Joe

Climate change secretariat

UN’s German campus

Kent Politsch

Ret. public affairs chief

USDA Farm Service Agency

Gene Cross

College hoops scout

NBA’s Sacramento Kings

Nichola Greenblatt

Deputy press secretary

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth

Symone Young

Clinical study coordinator

UNC-Chapel Hill

Amanda Sonneborn

Chicago law partner

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Karleton Thomas

Director of entrepreneurship

Urban League of D.C.

Tom Cycyota

President/CEO

AlloSource

Ned and Anne Tabat

Her: healthcare marketer

Him: Minneapolis CEO

Leslie Munger

Illinois deputy governor

2015-16: State comptroller

Ellen Dickson

President

Bailey Edward Design

Ian Wang

President/curator

Spurlock Museum

Arthur Baker

VP/asst. general counsel

Savills Studley

Paul Silver

Former CEO

Basswood Group

Jon Pyatt

Chief of staff

U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos

Gary Kebbel

Ex-AOL news director

Now a Nebraska professor

Andrew Friedman

Executive director

Center for Legal Reform and Good Governance

Eric Klinker

CEO/co-founder

Resilio Inc.

Bill Schultz

Emmy-winning animator

CEO, Home Plate E'tainment

Christopher Conway

Founder/principal

Philanthropic Counsel

Terry Welch

Texas law partner

Brown & Hofmeister

Debra Berg

Author, speaker

CEO, NICE Network