ISP Chicago Alumni Event

Wondering how you might tap into the International Scholars alumni network? Hoping to gain advice from former scholars who are out in the world? Join Chicago ISP alumni for dinner and conversation; 8 of our Chicago ISP alums will join us virtually.
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- Kevin Angell - Data Scientist, Zotec Partners
- Evelyn Bauman - Director of Sustainability, City of South Bend
- Sam Cannova - Business Analyst, McKinsey & Company
- Bright Gyamfi - History PhD student, Northwestern University
- Grace Rucker - Pediatric Occupational Therapist, Kids on the Grow
- John Skakun - Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
- Joseph VanderZee - 11th grade US History teacher, Mansueto High School
- Attina Zhang - Business Analyst, McKinsey & Company

Kevin Angell ‘20
This bio is current as of 2024. Kevin Angell is a rising 3rd year Ph.D. student in Political Economy at the University of Chicago. He focuses on studying American Politics using empirical methods. From 2024-2027, he is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program fellow...
Evelyn Bauman ‘16
This profile is current as of 2022. Evelyn Bauman graduated in 2016 with a degree in International Economics (French concentration), and spent a year as a Kellogg International Development Fellow in Port au Prince, Haiti, working with the Association of Volunteers in International Service (AVSI)...
Samuel Cannova ‘21
This bio is current as of 2022. Sam Cannova researched the interplay of hip hop culture and social discourse with a focus in South Africa. Through the Kellogg International Scholars program, he collected and analyzed hip hop artifacts, engaged in media analysis, and performed ethnography, tracing the international dialogue between American and South African hip hop...
Bright Gyamfi ‘16
Former Kellogg International Scholar Bright Gyamfi '16 is an Assistant Professor of history at the University of California San Diego and a former Presidential Fellow at Northwestern University. His research is at the intersection of West African and African Diaspora intellectual history, nationalism, gender, Pan-Africanism, Black internationalism, and economic development...Grace Rucker (Deardurff) ‘14

John Skakun ‘05

Joseph VanderZee ‘12
This bio is current as of 2020. Joseph VanderZee became an 11th grade US History teacher at Mansueto High School, the newest campus of the Noble Network of Charter Schools in Chicago, in 2019. VanderZee spent the previous five years as the founding coordinator of an English-language immersion center at a K-12 school in Santiago, Chile...