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A Guatemalan native, he arrived in the United States in the late eighties on a Fulbright Scholarship to do graduate studies in comparative literature at…

Jodi Ritter is Program Assistant for a Master's program at a local university. She is a Rockford native and an avid NPR listener who graduated from NIU…

Dr. John Perryman is a pediatrician in northern Illinois. After graduating from the University of Michigan Medical School, he completed pediatrics…

Kristi Correa is a leadership trainer for a financial service company based in Elgin, IL.She and her husband met in Bethesda, MD as hospital corpsmen and…

Ross Powell has been a professor of geosciences at Northern Illinois University since 1980. He earned a BSc and MSc from Victoria University in New…

Mary Weaks-Baxter is the Andrew Sherratt Professor at Rockford University where she teaches English and serves as Faculty Coordinator of Community-Based…

Catherine Forslund is the Isabel Ross Abbott Professor of History and Women’s Studies and chair of the History, Politics, and International Studies…

After 40 years of corporate experience in product and process innovation, continuous improvement and project management, Greg retired in 2017 to start his…

Jim Angel served as State Climatologist for Illinois for 34 years, retiring in 2018. His passion for weather and the climate, especially in the Midwest,…

Kelly Furr is a recent graduate of Northern Illinois University where she completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition, Dietetics & Wellness. She lives…