University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Erica Knievel Songer

Chief counsel

United States Senate

Fil Agusti

Partner

Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Chip Walgren

Congressional staff member

U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee

Scott Shearer

Bockorny Group VP

USDA deputy ass’t secretary (1993-96)

Dan Gusanders

Founder, CEO

Pure Processing LLC

Jim Nowlan

Author, columnist, publisher

Former state representative

Jennifer Gover Bannon

Assistant city attorney

City of Champaign

Victoria Johnson

Professor of film and media studies

University of California-Irvine

Janusz Wasiolek

Section chief, Office of Chief Information Officer

Library of Congress

Emma Dorantes

Staff attorney, legal advocate

Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission

Brady Collins

Assistant professor of political science

Cal Poly Pomona

Bayo Ojikutu

Award-winning author

‘47th Street Black,’ ‘Free Burning’

Tom Dowling

UI’s 10th Rhodes scholar

Lightfoot for Chicago advisor

Nicole Jorwic

Director of rights policy

The Arc of the United States

Carl Johnson

Retired Navy captain

Grove Street Fiduciary CEO

Latasha Thomas

Senior counsel

Clark Hill of Chicago

Megan Abraham

Executive director

The Goldie Initiative

Chang Wang

Minnesota law partner

College professor

Michael Harring

Retired VP

Deere & Company

Tarita Preston

‘Chief coach’

The Curated Coach

Philip Sarnecki

Managing partner

RPS Financial Group, Inc.

Joe Clayton

CEO

Int’l Food Info Council

Andrew Friedman

Executive director

Center for Legal Reform and Good Governance

Marc Farinella

Senior fellow

University of Chicago