Alumni News

CSU tennis player Nico Mostardi was coming off of the high of winning the Horizon League championship this May when he looked to his girlfriend Miruna, also a CSU tennis athlete, and knew. He'd found his forever love, and it was time to propose.

As a child, Claire Billingsley grew up witnessing housing instability. She didn't know it then, but those early experiences would shape her life's work: to combat housing inequity and end homelessness, in her words, "one way or another."

As an HR professional with nearly two decades of experience, Lauren Rudman (MLRHR '08) thrives in helping company employees learn, grow and advance in their respective careers. Now, the senior director of HR and Training for GNCO, Inc., takes the reins as president of the CSU Alumni Association Board of Directors to help cultivate deeper alumni relationships with CSU.

Though Anne-Marie Connors is the new associate vice president for alumni relations, she is no stranger to CSU.

If the walls of The Shire could have talked, what would they have said?

Accomplished alumna Dr. Ediuska Laurens is using the powers of science and engineering and her know-how of industry to improve the health of vulnerable populations.

As CEO of the Chicago Sinfonietta, alumnus Blake-Anthony Johnson is the first African American to lead a nationally renowned orchestra and wants to reimagine what it means to be diverse, inclusive and equitable.

McLendon became the first African American head coach at a predominantly white institution when hired by Cleveland State University in 1966.

The 2020 presidential election might be over, but graduate Kayla Griffin's work as state director of All Voting is Local is just beginning.

Over the past few months, we've had plenty of opportunities to dwell on all that's wrong, but you'd be surprised at how you can find ways to smile, even laugh, amidst turmoil.