Alumni

Earning a degree in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences opens incredible opportunities for our alumni.

We're highlighting some of those careers with our LAS@Work feature. In these stories, alumni answer questions about their jobs and how their Illinois degrees helped them find success.

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Alumna Christian Hasler works at an excavation site
Human history, challenging beliefs, and a career built right at home
  Christian Hasler (BA, ’22, anthropology) had dreams of working abroad in an archaeological field. Egypt, maybe. Certainly international. Somewhere with a storied history. However, she found that her own home state has a rich history...
Jen Grove is stands outside on a fall day.
A holistic approach to artifacts
Jennifer Grove (BS, ’15, anthropology) is the collections storage coordinator at Spurlock Museum of World Cultures on campus. Jennifer worked at the museum during her undergraduate studies and has returned...
Adham Sahloul stands in front of a bust of Abraham Lincoln
Public service is an act of faith
College of LAS alumnus Adham Sahloul (BA, political science, ’15) is a national security expert and U.S. Navy Reserve officer. Most recently, he served as a special advisor appointed by the Biden-Harris Administration at the U.S. Agency for International...
Annareli Morales
‘My major built a solid foundation of scientific expertise, research’
Annareli Morales is an air quality policy analyst for Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment in Colorado. She graduated in 2012 as a double major in atmospheric science and...
Alumnus John Alumnus smiles with his family
Alumnus provides a Meal to Heal
John Kelly (BS, ’86, economics) spends his office hours as an economist with the US Department of Labor in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, it’s his work with his non-profit that feeds his soul. Kelly founded A Meal to Heal following the death...
Chika Umeadi is an LAS alumnus.
Collaboration at ‘the edge of what is imaginable’
Chika Umeadi (BA, ’10, political science) is a product manager at Google where he helps drive key strategies with a variety of teams and stakeholders. In hindsight, the political science major and informatics minor believes, in many ways, the connections he...

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