CUPPA’s Haniyyah Thomas Featured in UIC Today
Excepted from UIC Today: CHANCE sparks connection for student leaders.
Excepted from UIC Today: CHANCE sparks connection for student leaders.
[Haniyyah] Thomas, an Honors College student, graduated May 9 from the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs with a bachelor’s degree in public policy. At UIC, she founded the Black Student Coalition and a campus ministry program; chaired the National Residence Hall Honorary society; received an Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service; and was a student ambassador in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, working with Dean Stacey Swearingen White.
“I love the courses I’ve taken in CUPPA, and Dean White, who also came to our wedding, is one of the most supportive administrators I’ve ever met,” Thomas said. “On every level, I have so much gratitude for UIC, and I feel like I’m well-equipped for what’s next.”
A member of the 2025 Teach for America cohort, she will start teaching special education in a Chicago high school this summer and begin a master’s degree program in teaching.
Read Haniyyah’s and Aaron Tillery’s full story in UIC Today: CHANCE sparks connection for student leaders.