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October 30, 2024
Three distinguished individuals will receive the Northwestern Alumni Medal, the Northwestern Alumni Association’s highest honor, for the positive impact they have made in their careers and communities.
The medal recognizes alumni who have had a transformative impact on their fields, performed exemplary volunteer service to society or demonstrated an outstanding record of service and support to the University.
This year’s recipients are Cindy Chupack ’87, David Louie ’72 and Jeff Ubben ’87 MBA (’20 P).
They join the ranks of a select group of more than 100 alumni — including Supreme Court justices and a Nobel laureate — who have been given the award since 1932.
Alumni Medal recipients
Cindy Chupack is an award-winning television writer and producer whose credits include “Sex and the City,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Modern Family,” “Better Things,” “Divorce” and the upcoming miniseries “Fleishman Is in Trouble.” She also directed and co-wrote the film “Otherhood,” starring Angela Bassett, Felicity Huffman and Patricia Arquette.
She is a 2020 inductee to the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications’s Hall of Achievement and an active member of Northwestern’s Council of One Hundred.
David Louie is the business editor and technology reporter for ABC Disney’s KGO-TV San Francisco, for which he became the first Asian American reporter in 1972. He has covered countless stories in local broadcast and digital news: he tracked the emergence of Silicon Valley as a tech innovation center; was part of the first local TV news team to go to China following normalization of US-China relations; and conducted the first post-9/11 interview with late U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta.
To commemorate his 50th anniversary at KGO-TV, he endowed a scholarship in 2022 for Medill students through the Radio Television Digital News Association, which had awarded Louie its first scholarship in 1970.
Jeff Ubben is founder, managing partner, and portfolio manager of Inclusive Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based investment management firm. The firm seeks to positively leverage capitalism and governance in pursuit of a healthy planet and the well-being of its inhabitants, and seeks superior long-term shareholder value through active partnerships with companies whose core businesses either contribute to this pursuit or are transforming their businesses to become more sustainable.
Ubben joined the Northwestern Board of Trustees as a charter trustee in 2008 and became a life trustee in 2020. He also is a Kellogg Asset Management Practicum Advisory Council member and has served on the Kellogg Alumni Council.
