University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Sandra Hughes Kazarian

Correspondent

CBS News

Mansi Shah

Author, 'The Taste of Ginger’

Senior VP/Legal, Warner Bros. Entertainment

Jayda Imanlihen

Director of Multimedia Design & Production, Bovard College, University of Southern California

Executive Director, Black Girl Film School

Preeti Ghuman

Civil engineer

Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County

Safiya Noble

2020 iSchool Distinguished Alumna Award

UCLA Associate Professor, Information Studies and African American Studies

Dr. Joel Geiderman

Co-chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center

2020 LAS Alumni Humanitarian Award

Doniel Sutton

Co-owner, Commercial Aquatic Services

Former Senior VP/People, PayPal

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Petros Ioannou

USC Professor of Electrical Engineering Systems

Director, Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies

Scott Spiezio

Two-time World Series champ

Played on 2002 Angels, 2006 Cardinals

Lee Cooper

Professor emeritus, marketing

UCLA

Ross Guignon

Global client strategy

Creative Artists Agency

Keith Westcott

2010 LAS Distinguished Service Award

Retired scientist, visiting UI scholar

Aisha Conner-Gaten

Instructional design librarian

Loyola Marymount University

Irving Azoff

2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee

CEO, Azoff MSG Entertainment

Morgan Polikoff

Associate professor of education

USC

Greg Spero

Progressive jazz pianist

Toured with Halsey, founded Spirit Fingers

Armando Espinal

Senior financial analyst

Disney Television Animation

Doug Erhard

Wealth management advisor

Northwest Mutual of Champaign

Cristy Chapman Uhrig

1999 Dike Eddleman Award

All-Big Ten middle blocker

Jason Cong

Distinguished chancellor’s professor

Computer science, UCLA

Yeerik Moy

VP, Labor Relations

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Jeffrey Lieber

TV/film screenwriter/producer

‘Lost’ co-creator

Susan Rankaitis

Professor of art

Scripps College

Bruce Singman

LA-based attorney

Former Illini fullback

Ryan McPartlin

LA-based actor

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