University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Tim Lambert

Senior VP/general counsel

Caesars Entertainment

Mohamed El-Ashry

Senior fellow

United Nations Foundation

Shadia Haddad

Senior investment analyst

Former UI volleyball star

Susan RoAne

Best-selling author

‘How to Work A Room’

Parisa Mazaheri

VP/law, North America

Johnson & Johnson

Kim Clark

VP/events strategy

NBA

Vivian Payton

Co-executive producer

‘Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta’

Julie Hines

VP, AOL

Strategy/Development

Nicole White

Public affairs chief

U.S. Air Force

Beth Jones

COO, Hillary for America

Ex-White House director

Rex Miller

Award-winning author

Principal, mindSHIFT

Erin Virtue

Associate head coach

Northwestern volleyball

Allan Mustard

U.S. ambassador

Country of Turkmenistan

Erin Concors

Consular officer

U.S. State Department

Deb Neubek

Human systems engineering

NASA

Kris McMasters

Former CEO

CliftonLarsonAllen

Carol Ross Barney

Pioneering architect

Thomas Jefferson Award

Holley Fain

Actress

Julia on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’

Paola Boivin

Selection committee member

College Football Playoff

Grace Woo

Pixels.IO founder

Graduated at age 19

Debby Goldsberry

Co-founder

United Cannabis Collective

Diane Pearse

Hickory Farms CEO

Ex-Crate & Barrel CFO

Joel Poloney

Senior software engineer

Google

Bruce Goodwin

National security expert

Engineering alumni award