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Young Alumni Update Richard Hackman ’08 Degree: Communication, LAS, 2008 Hometown: Clayton, MO Company: City of Palo Alto, CA Title: Project Manager “Following graduation from the University of Illinois I spent one year living in Chicago before deciding to move to the San Francisco Bay Area. Shortly after arriving, I got a job doing project management for the City of Palo Alto. Palo Alto is home to Stanford University and is the epicenter of Silicon Valley. In my role with the City of Palo Alto, I manage the city’s state and federal legislative programs in addition to certain transportation and infrastructure initiatives. In addition to my professional work I have served on the Board of Directors of both the Friends of the Palo Alto Parks and the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, where I was the Founder of EPIC, the Chamber’s young professionals program. Currently, I reside in the Marina District of San Francisco, only blocks from fellow Kappa Kappa Kevin Reichert ’06, where hardly a month goes by that we don’t play host to at least one fellow Sig. To stay in touch with Kappa Kappa, I either travel back to campus for Homecoming or fy into Chicago for a weekend with my pledge brothers. The two things I’ll remember most about being a Kappa Kappa are the day I was initiated and being able to live with so many of my best friends in the world. In hoc, no joke!” Arthur Baker ’09 Degrees B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009, with honors; J.D., University of Miami School of Law, 2012, summa cum laude Hometown: Urbana, Illinois Company: Baker & Hostetler LLP Title: Associate “After graduating from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, I moved to Miami to attend the University of Miami School of Law. In law school, I was an editor on the University of Miami Law Review, President of an honors law fraternity, as well as active in student government. After graduating summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, I moved to Orlando, Florida to work as an associate at the national law frm of Baker & Hostetler LLP. The focus of my practice is on affecting corporate and real estate transactions, resolving corporate governance issues for public and private companies, and handling general land use matters. Outside of work, I am on the Corporate Development Committee for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Secretary and Treasurer for the Orlando Alumni Chapter of Sigma Chi. It is also nice to enjoy the Florida sunshine which has me out running, playing golf, and tennis whenever I get a chance.” For more information on the Orlando Alumni group visit http://orlandosigmachi.com/. Paul Biasco ’10 Degree: News-Editorial Journalism Over the summer of 2012, I interviewed dozens of family Hometown: Glenview members of murder victims for DNAinfo for an interactive series Company: DNAinfo titled “Murder in Chicago: The Human Toll”. The project is also up Title: Reporter/Producer for a Lisagor award for Best Multimedia Feature Presentation. http:// “I landed a job as the breaking news www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2013-chicago-murders?gclid=CPO6_ and crime reporter at the Daily Herald KXjxb0CFbQWMgod4GoATQ . following graduation in 2010. I covered I live in the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood and hobbies include everything from plane crashes, homicides and fres to profles on biking, fshing and playing in a men’s league hockey league. I am Olympians. In the fall of 2012, I took a job with DNAinfo Chicago, participating in the frst day’s 80 mile ride for the Ignite the Spirit a hyper-local news organization covering the city’s neighborhoods. and Henry Schueler 41 & 9 Foundation’s bike ride to Boston (http:// My beat includes Lincoln Park and Old Town. I recently helped www.ignitethespirit.org/ribbons-from-the-heart-campaign/). launch a weekly DNAinfo newspaper in Lincoln Park, the frst paper I am in touch with nearly all of my pledge brothers from Kappa of its kind for the company. Kappa and see a lot of them almost every week whether it is out at a A series of my photographs from covering the events surrounding bar in the city or going to a sporting event. This year the entire 2010 the Chicago Public Schools decision to close 50 schools are fnalists pledge class attended both the Illinois vs. Washington football game for the Best Photo Lisagor Award handed out annually by the at Soldier Field and the Illini’s basketball matchup with UIC at the Chicago Headline Club. (http://www.headlineclub.org/component/ United Center. I’ve had the opportunity to attend the weddings of content/article/400-congrats-to-our-lisagor-fnalists.html). two pledge brothers this year, Pat Gale and Scott Shapiro.” 4