DEMO Magazine

Category: Issue 20

  • Jimmy Odom, Delivery Man

    Jimmy Odom, Delivery Man

    Odom’s company WeDeliver turns everyday Chicagoans into drivers for local businesses.

  • She’s A Rainbow

    She’s A Rainbow

    “New York pushes me—emotionally, physically, everything. If you’re not the best or you’re not working the hardest, you’re going to be tossed aside.”

  • Questions for President Kwang-Wu Kim

    Questions for President Kwang-Wu Kim

    “People seem to have really powerful positive memories with their experiences here.”

  • Precious Davis, Life Changer

    Precious Davis, Life Changer

    “I feel like I’m imparting to the next generation empowerment, encouragement, a space to identify with who they are.”

  • Shannon Lengerich Suffoletto, Mover and Healer

    Shannon Lengerich Suffoletto, Mover and Healer

    “As dance and psychology ran parallel in my life, I learned to combine them.”

  • Class Notes

    Class Notes

    Submit your class notes at colum.edu/alumni

  • Jay Bonansinga, Well-Dressed Writer

    Jay Bonansinga, Well-Dressed Writer

    At least five days a week, Jay Bonansinga (MA ’88) gets up in the morning and puts on a jacket and tie. But he doesn’t leave home. Instead, he begins writing—hammering out at least 1,250 words—some six daily pages that lead to a novel in four months. The workmanlike pace serves the author well. In…

  • Millennial Hustle

    Millennial Hustle

    As students at Columbia College Chicago, Lena Waithe, Tony Merevick and Roma Shah all jump-started their careers with hands-on experience, prestigious internships and boundless ambition—and today, they continue to build on the creative momentum that originated in the South Loop. As the rising stars of television, journalism and fashion business, respectively, each of these young…

  • Changing Course

    Changing Course

    Artists Caitlin Strokosch (BA ’98), Rachael Albers (BA ’06) and Shawn Lent (MAM ’06) step out of the spotlight and find fulfillment through nonprofit pursuits. In the arts, timing is everything: the musician’s backbeat, the actor’s delivered line, the dancer’s choreographed leap. For many artists, knowing when to transition from center stage to a supporting…

  • A Colossal Success

    A Colossal Success

    Christopher Jobson (BA ’04) turned his humble passion project—an art and visual culture blog—into a full-time, professional career. On the morning of March 9, 2011,Christopher Jobson (BA ’04) posted Sagaki Keita’s surreal, intricately detailed ink drawings to his arts and visual culture blog, Colossal. By 5 p.m. that day, so many visitors flooded the site…