Looking for creative gifts this holiday season? Support local businesses with a gift from one of these alumni owned- and -operated companies. °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ¿ª½± graduates have designed their own games, personalized presents and more.
°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ¿ª½± alumni are also offering holiday deals on their consulting services. Treat yourself and your own business with support from one of your fellow Lakers.
Chicago Gifts from °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ¿ª½± Alumni
Tamecka Sandifer (BA C ’99) offers beautiful personalized gifts for holiday shoppers. Visit her Etsy shop for candles, mugs and 2022 calendars. Contact: tameckas@hotmail.com
Kasey Bersett Eaves (BA Journalism, ’07) wants you to achieve your garden goals. Vivant Gift Cards are redeemable for any hourly garden service, consult or Q&A. Explore handmade wreaths to adorn your door this winter while supporting local business and two nonprofits. Holiday-curated gifts .
Contact: services@vivantgardens.com
Vincent Stellato (RMU ’10) created the original and first hockey yard game. The Sauce Kit helps you plany hockey anywhere and anywhere.
Contact: (312) 502-4456 or info@hockeysaucekit.com
Pay it forward this winter with a gift in honor of someone in need. Tricia Porche (MBA ’02) assists disadvantaged teenagers and homeless people with warm coats, hats, gloves, boots and scarves.
Contact: tporche2@yahoo.com or (708) 692-3242
Alexis Arenda creates unique, colorful stickers that celebrate Mexican culture. Explore her decals on Etsy.
Gifts for Avid Readers
In her debut novel, Willie Mae Jackson, MD (MA ’09) follows Donovan Montgomery, Chicago’s top forensic psychiatrist, an expert on behavioral deviance whose belief in law and order and convincing testimony has locked up the city’s worst criminals. The stakes are high in this fast-paced thriller.
From MFA alum Lori Rader Day, the award-winning author of The Day I Died and The Lucky One, comes a captivating suspense novel about nurses during World War II. Bridey Kelly comes to Agatha Christie’s holiday estate to care for evacuated children, but when a body is discovered nearby, the idyllic setting becomes host to a deadly mystery.
Business and Consulting Services
Davina Ware (MBA ’14) helps professionals get out of their own way to transition into their ideal careers that utilize their gifts and talents. Through the latest career transition principles, personal growth and spiritual development, she leads her clients to find fulfillment in their next career move. Take 40% off the 90 Day Career Fix Signature Coaching Program with code °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ¿ª½±2021.
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Contact: info@upwardlypavedpath.com or (708) 405-9568.
Ivelina Sinkova (BA ’07, MS ’10) offer specialized design services. Concorde can help you with same-day, last-minute service, short-run (low volume), wide format, digital and offset printing, custom print jobs, posters, presentations, business cards and more.
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Contact: iva@concordeprint.net or (312) 552-3006
Yuanyuan Liang (MS ’13) and Time Realty can help you with all of your real estate needs. Browse apartments for rent or get a free market evaluation.
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Contact: amelie@chitimerealty.com
Human resources alum Christine Render (MS '04) delivers talent management strategies that elevate people and business results while leveraging coaching to reinforce strategy during these challenging times. ScaleUp provides consulting and coaching services related to talent development, employee engagement and workplace culture.
Holiday Special: ScaleUp is offering a promotional fee for our designed for individuals who will be starting a new role soon and want to develop a strategy and action plan for their first 90 days. Clients also receive tips to support their new role transition after the first 90 days.
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Contact: christinerender@scaleupresults.com or (847) 924-3634
Morey Manor (MPA ’72) offers international marketing consultting on global trade issues. Morey is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Contact: (972) 50 5 332400 or m_manor@netvision.net.il
Richard R. White (BSBA '69) specializes in taxation and nonprofit organizations. His CPA firm is based in Roselle, Illinois.
Contact: rrw.cpa@comcast.net
Nyrobi Wheeler (RMU BBA ’06, MBA ’11) teaches online, self-paced courses in Spanish, French, Italian and Mandarin Chinese. The academy offers monthly payments for online courses and $5 discount for e-books.
Contact: (309) 363-5710 or or nyrobiwheelermba@gmail.com
Velvetta Young (BA ’07) supports small businesses and families with landlord/tenant disagreements, child custody issues, moving violations and unlimited legal advice . Call for a free consultation today.
Contact: (708) 606-2379 or y7vel@aol.com
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