We present articles on finding and building relationships with mentors, share stories about Jayhawks who mentor, and celebrate alumni who give back to the university through the gift of mentorship.
Continue readingMentor Spotlight: Bill Mar
Bill Mar loves the hunt for the solution. He describes himself as a technically-oriented leader with diverse experience in the full software lifecycle. He enjoys helping his team drill down into hard problems, analyze the patterns and draw conclusions…
Continue readingMentor Spotlight: Andrew Sherwood
Andrew Sherwood is a leadership gift officer for Southern Methodist University. He has nearly a decade of experience in collegiate athletics specializing in fundraising, marketing, writing and strategic communications…
Continue readingMentor Spotlight: Monique Garcia
Monique Garcia has more than 25 years experience in federal and local government service as well as non-profit and corporate/strategic communications experience.
A Wichita native, Garcia, c’96, has returned to her hometown.
Andrew Fillmore
Andrew Fillmore is a digital marketer and project manager with experience across the non-profit, entertainment and digital spaces. His goal is to help storytellers find audiences more effectively using his digital marketing background, project management experience and passion for film and television…
Continue readingJayhawk doctor’s vaccine research featured in The New Yorker
Vaccine research by Dr. Barney S. Graham, m’79, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s Vaccine Research Center, is prominently featured in The New Yorker magazine’s 30,000-word story “The Plague Year”…
Continue readingMentor Spotlight: Caitlin Ungerer
Caitlin Ungerer, j’17, lives in Chicago where she works as an influencer marketing manager for Octagon. She began working at the agency in 2017 and has worked her way up through a number of different positions in creative and digital…
Continue readingMentor Spotlight: Erin Curtis-Dierks
Erin Curtis-Dierks is a communicator, project manager, and marketer. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1997, and has worked in a variety of sales, promotions and communications roles throughout her career…
Continue readingMentor Spotlight: Howard Fox
Howard Fox earned an accounting degree from the University of Kansas in 1982. He has more than 30 years of experience in finance and accounting, acquisitions and divestments…
Continue readingMentor Spotlight: Mercedes Bounthapanya
Mercedes Bounthapanya earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics in 2018 and works as a diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator for KU’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences…
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