Our Assistant Director of Career Engagement at Illinois Wesleyan University, Brian Richardson ’09, has been hired as the Associate Director of Career Services in San Antonio. Congratulations, Brian!

Kaelyn Riley ’09 finished her M.A. in English at UC Davis in 2011, and her M.F.A. in creative writing at Colorado State University in 2014. Since then, she has been living and working in Minneapolis as a senior editor for Experience Life, an award-winning health, and wellness magazine published by Life Time Fitness. She married her husband Ben in January 2018, and bought their first home together in South Minneapolis last fall.

Elizabeth (Sowatzke) Schlicht ’09 gave virtual practice interviews to students on March 12, 2021. Elizabeth majored in voice as a student at IWU’s School of Music. She was planning to continue studying music post-graduation, but decided to pursue other interests during her senior year. Elizabeth is currently the Executive Director of the Association Acumen in Milwaukee utilizing her skills in non-profit management and marketing. This was a great opportunity for music or marketing majors to explore career options and develop their interview skills! Thank you, Elizabeth!

Katie (Whalley) Banville ’09 along with her husband Bryan and daughter Juniper have gone from having chock-full 2020 calendars of creative work to spending virtually 24 hours a day of the past nine months quarantining at home.

With many planned shows and performance cancellations, Katie, a choreographer and stage director, said, “It was heartbreaking. We definitely went through a phase of loss and grief. It was like a domino effect. One show would get postponed, and then another and another.”

Read more on the Banville’s in Faces of the arts shutdown: Theater’s Bryan & Katie Banville: ‘We definitely went through a phase of loss’ from the San Diego Union Tribune.

Marshall B Garrett ’09 has started a podcast! Now entering its second season, The Horned Moon Presents is a serialized Shakespeare play (Season 1- Macbeth, Upcoming – Much Ado about Nothing) wrapped in a scripted Prairie Home Companion– style talk show. Marshall directs, co-hosts, and produces the podcast, which has also featured Russell Matthews ’09.

You can listen on the website, here.

On Apple Podcasts, here.

And on Google Podcasts, here.

Congrats to Monica (Urban) and Jospeh Holmes ’09 who welcomed their newest Tiny Titan, Sydney Ann Holmes, on July 24th, 2020. Congratulations on the newest addition to your family!

Elizabeth, Schlicht, CAE, Executive Director at Association Acumen, has received the Young Professional award from the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives. The award honors a young profession who’s making a difference through contributions to WSAE and the association community. The award was presented virtually at the Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation on October 27.

Thank you very much to Dr. Kemi Onajin ’09, a dermatologist and University of Chicago faculty member. She shared virtually on September 11, 2020 about her journey from IWU to her current position.

Thank you to Dr. Derrick Tillman-Kelly ’09, who gave the Titan Talk “How We Got Here: Racism + Higher Education” on June 10 about higher education, racism, and where we can go from here.