Alumni Spotlights

Matthew Wiemer (BA, 03, history) is a social studies teacher at Niles West High School.

Jazmin Tejeda (BA, '21, history and political science; MHRIR, '22, Human Resources and Industrial Relations) is an HR Manager at PepsiCo.

Nile Blunt (PhD, '11, history) is the director of the Cahoon Museum of American Art.

Jack Duffley (BA, '18, history and economics) is the owner of Duffley Law, a firm he started before the age of 30 after being laid off.

Mikki Kendall (BA, '05, history) is a diversity consultant, public speaker, and New York Times best-selling author of "Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot" and "Amazons, Abolitionists and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for their Rights."

James A. Snyder (BA, '98, history and English) is the co-head of Sidley Austin's Chicago Global Finance group and co-leader of the law firm’s Private Credit and Syndicated Finance practice.

Jensen Rehn (BA, '20, history) is a litigation associate at Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres.

Hanna Jin (BA, '19, history and psychology) is a data analyst on the Annual Giving team at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Jeremy Mitchell, (BA, '02, history) is the Deputy Fire Marshal in the Life Safety Division at the City of Champaign Fire Department.

Stacy Lynn (PhD, history, ’07) is an associate editor for the Jane Addams Papers. She recently published a new book, "Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life and Legacy."