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Ronald B. Kaatz Humanitarian Award

Ronald B. Kaatz Humanitarian Award

The Kaatz award was established to recognize integrated marketing communications students who best exemplify the qualities of former Medill professor Ron Kaatz as a mentor demonstrating generosity of intellect, spirit and personality.

Kaatz (BSJ56, MSJ57) was an IMC faculty member from 1986 to 1996. He served 20 years at J. Walter Thompson Co. in various capacities, including senior vice president and director of media concepts, director of network relations, director of broadcast operations and director of JWT's media resources and research department.

Recipients of the Ronald Kaatz Award are selected by the IMC faculty and honored at the graduation convocation.

Winners

2022

  • Vishrutha Aravamudan
  • Sixie Deng
  • Zhixin He 
2021
  • Ugonna Akuba
  • David DiNicola
2020
  • Raigan Antoinette Ashmon  
  • Sarah Helen Brechbill  

2019

  • Faryal Ali
  • Katrina Chertkow
  • Cairo Lewis
  • Karen Wang

2018

  • Abigail Watt
  • Dongmin Ren

2017

  • Dwight White
  • Katherine More
  • Elizabeth Bausch

2016

  • Ruben Bravo Castano
  • Smriti Khanna

2015

  • Manuel Altomonte
  • Kaitlyn Lahti
  • Juie Shah

2014

  • Alvaro Gutierrez
  • Emily London

2013

  • William A. Mattiace
  • Ieesha Lashawn McKenzie

2012

  • Christopher T. Elton
  • Rong Shen

2011

  • Kevin Patrick Byrne
  • Swathy Poorvisha Prithivi

2010

  • Katherine S. Floyd
  • William Don Wortley

2009

  • Albert Isaac Lin
  • Eileen Schoenherr Zampa

2008

  • Tyler Patrick Cox
  • Virginia Wilson Russell

2007

  • Alexander Kates Garnick
  • Kristin McKenna Regan

2006

  • Reshma Khan
  • Christopher Joseph Rathje

2005

  • Christopher James Cleghorn
  • Soyeong Park

2004

  • Kavita Bafana
  • Debra Anne Ceffalio
  • Christiana Colletto

2003

  • Melisa Marie Tezanos
  • John Berton Tingle

2002

  • Joanne Fuschetto
  • Chia Chin Wu

2000

  • Swantje Drescher
  • Ariel Goldfarb