Quick Take

MEET THE 2022-2023 CLASS OF UK ALUMNI AMBASSADORS

Each year we welcome a new group of Alumni Ambassadors of the University of Kentucky Alumni Association. This group of students, who serve as the official student hosts for the University of Kentucky, bridge the gap between alumni and current students and create positive experiences for both.This team promotes the University of Kentucky at university and alumni association events and assists in strengthening students’ roles within the university. These students represent the best and brightest of University of Kentucky students. We are excited for the year ahead and look forward to working with them.

From left to right: Front row: Emily O’Dell, Veronica Murray, Abigail Elbert and Rachel Weaver. Second row: Shannon Nguyen, Grace McDonald, Madison Argue, Julia Rhorer and Christy Kirkham. Third row: Lilly Meekin, Mattie Strode, Caroline Youdes, Meredith Compton, Autumn Rodgers and Dasha Boikov. Fourth row: Madeline Pass, Elizabeth Piipponen, Lauren Weisert, Lauren Hickey, Elizabeth Akers, Isha Chauhan and Lily Messer. Back row: Isabella Bowling, Tanner Thompson, Jordan Colella, Jackson Huse and Mary Grace Hemingway.

Publicly launched in September 2018, Kentucky Can: The 21st Century Campaign, has raised $1,779,757,934 toward the university’s $2.1 billion goal thanks to 151,891 donors.

Thanks to you, our students have received life-changing scholarships that allow them to focus on their future and not their debt; our researchers have obtained the resources they need to advance knowledge in their fields and make our world a better and safer place to live; our campus has flourished with new and revitalized buildings that offer high-end learning spaces and hot-spots for building community. Because of Wildcats everywhere, the University of Kentucky will never be the same.

We are in the final stretch of this historic campaign; will you help us finish what we started?

If you have given at any point in this campaign, thank you for helping us advance Kentucky. We want you to be proud you’ve been a part of Kentucky Can.