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Pain, Passion, and Impact
Abigail Clary (M.ARCH. ’97) is using her first-hand experience of watching her father get lost in the health care system to make health care spaces more patient-friendly and efficient.
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Chris Salgado discretely protects high-profile clients from malicious online actors, whether they reside in the deep or dark web. And after 24 years in the business—and while now leading his own agency—Salgado shares the same tricks of the trade that he imparts to federal law enforcement officers to help them safely gather information online.
Chris Salgado (PS ’11)
Marguerite Chapman, 103, was one of the first African-American women—and the only in her graduating class—to graduate from what was then Lewis Institute, one of the predecessors of Illinois Tech. She went on to a rewarding career in social work and education—and still remembers some of the first children that she ever helped.
Marguerite Chapman (PS ’45)
Abigail Clary has spent decades designing health care spaces. But first first-hand experience of watching her father get lost in the health care system in his final days—a frustrating ordeal that ended with her father dying alone in the middle of the night—has bolstered her drive to make those spaces more patient-friendly and efficient.
Abigail Clary (M.ARCH. ’97)
Theo Lopez Marques was an incredibly skinny kid in high school—but last year he broke two national records and came in first in his weight class in the new sport of streetlifting, whose competitors are known for their raw strength and minimal bulk. Now, he wants to represent the United States in the sport internationally.
Theo Lopez Marques (M.Eng. CM ’24)