Every year, the UW-Milwaukee Alumni Association recognizes a handful of graduates who have impacted their community through their work or volunteer efforts. We are proud that several Letters & Science alumni were chosen as award winners this year. The awardees were honored at a ceremony at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee on Feb. 21.
Letters & Science alumni chosen for awards included:
Lifetime Achievement Award: Clayborn Benson (’87, BA Film; ’24, MA History), executive director, Wisconsin Black Historical Society/Museum
Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award: Jill Lintonen (’96, BA Mass Communication), communications director and public information officer, Milwaukee County Department of Health & Human Services
Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award: Molly Poppie (’04, BA; ’07, MA Sociology), head of analytics, Experian, Financial Services & Data
Impact Award: Mark Briggs (’98, BA English), hospital responder supervisor, 414 Life
Impact Award: Felice Green (’89, BA Mass Communication), director of programming, Milwaukee Water Commons
GOLD (Graduate of the Last Decade) Award: Alisha Gray (’17, BA Communication), purchasing manager, Orgill Inc.
GOLD (Graduate of the Last Decade) Award: Victoria (Tori) Isaac (’21, BA Dance and Sociology; ’23, MA Sociology), dancer, educator, and choreographer, Turning Point Dance Studio
GOLD (Graduate of the Last Decade) Award: Bryce Stevenson (’16, BA English) chef/owner, Miijim
You can learn more about our Impact Award winners in the videos below.
Mark Briggs graduated from the College of Letters & Science in 1998 with a degree in English after playing on the Panther Men’s Basketball team. Briggs is working to bring peace to our city through his work with 414 Life, preventing and de-escalating gun violence in Milwaukee, and his long history of volunteering as a youth basketball coach.
Alumna Felice Green graduated from the College of Letters & Science with a Mass Communications/Journalism bachelor’s in 1989. Today, Green is one of Milwaukee’s civic champions, using the expertise she developed at UWM to lead efforts from voter registration to environmental initiatives.