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LAW '03

“Everybody loves a good redemption story,” says Ginger Leigh Odom ’03. “Every sports movie is about coming from behind and having success, and I think that the expungement-and-sealing statute is an...

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LAW '90

Eileen O’Neill Burke ’90 was in the sixth grade when former justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow spoke to Burke’s class about her career as a judge. McMorrow went on to be the first woman to serve on the...

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LAW '12

“Mr. Ammoura, is that you?” It was summer 2011, and Ali Ammoura ’12 was a law student at Âé¶ąAPP-Kent College of Law when he heard a meek voice cut through the hustle and bustle of the lockup at the...

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M.S. Computer Science '88

“I was where I was when I was,” he says via telephone from India, where he is serving his second term as an independent member in the upper house of India’s Parliament, representing Bangalore and the...

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(Computer Science '03)

The first taste of craft beer for Ankur Jain (CS ’03) was a swig of Anchor Steam, whose nineteenth-century recipe and California ocean-port pedigree made it a great object lesson in a course he took...

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(CE ’11, M.A.S. PW ’16)

Jenelle Hill (CE ’11, M.A.S. PW ’16) joined Illinois Tech with an interest in math and a passion for doing work that would be used by generations, and she found civil engineering to be a natural fit...

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(CS ’00, M.B.A. ’05)

Illinois Tech’s own Sejal Vaishnav (CS ’00, M.B.A. ’05) was recently named one of the 50 leading tech executives shaping the future of higher education by Chief Data Officer Magazine a recognition...

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LAW '22

“I got accepted to a couple of art schools, but I always wanted to be a lawyer,” says Joey Zawacki ’22. “I also wanted some kind of financial security, so I closed my little art dream and I put it...

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