Marilyn Upah-Bant

Director of Development and Alumni Relations

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• Currently Director of Development and Alumni Relations at University High School
• Member of the Urbana Plan Commission
• Member of Urbana Rotary Club
• Member of the executive board of the local chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives

She and her husband, Geoffrey Bant have lived in Urbana since moving here for grad school in the late 1970s. He is the retired director of Printing Services for the U of I and teaches pottery for the Champaign Park District They are the parents of two sons, Jason, 24, who will be attending grad school at Northwestern University next fall, and Alex, a senior at Urbana High School.

Before assuming her current duties at Uni, Marilyn was the Executive Director of the C-U Community Schools Foundation for Educational Excellence and taught journalism at Uni. She previously worked at the U of I Foundation and the U of I College of Agriculture. Before that, she was Features Editor for The News-Gazette and Urbana City Reporter for the now-defunct C-U Courier. Bant has a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Northern Illinois University and a master's degree journalism and political science from the University of Illinois.