Katherine Slevin ’10 has created the C. Love Cookie Project to give back to her Portland community. Slevin donates 21% of her cookie sales to three nonprofits. Her staff is made up of all women immigrants who Katherine teaches how to bake. Here is the link to the article.

The Zeal Center for Entrepreneurship hired Kate Flemming ’10 as its new community manager. To read more about her accomplishment, click here.

Congratulations, Kate!

From the left, IWU graduates – Neil Stratman, Erin Daly, and Carly Stocking

Carly Stocking ’10 has been producing, directing, and performing in a series of cabarets called Cafe Carly at a new venue in Arlington Heights. All of the six shows have been sold out performances and have featured several IWU alumni including Erin Daly ’10, Neil Stratman ’10, Morgan DeTogne ’08 Timothy Foszcz ’18, and former musical theatre professor Sandy DeAthos.

Please join me in congratulating Carly and our IWU alumni on their success!

Prairie Fire Theatre toured How To Be a Superhero, its annual opera for children, in the Bloomington-Normal area. Written by Nancy Steele Brokaw ’71, directed by Rhys Lovell ’87 and musical direction by Charlie Berggren ’10.

Our own John Mastandona ’10 has joined the Village of Western Springs as Assistant Director of Finance!

Please join me in congratulating him!

An assistant director in the University of Illinois Athletics Communications office, Brett Moore ’10 is serving as press officer for USA Baseball this summer. You can read more about his background in this Pantagraph Post.

Please join me in congratulating Brett and wishing him a great time!

Steven Sturlis has joined the downtown Denver, Colorado firm of Wells, Anderson & Race, LLC, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the United States, as a scientific advisor based in their Ann Arbor office. 

His practice is dedicated to insurance litigation and insurance bad faith.

Please join me in congratulating Steven!