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Aisha Sultan is a nationally syndicated columnist and award-winning filmmaker and features writer. Her work has run in more than 100 publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and The Atlantic. She has won several national honors, including the Asian American Journalists Association’s “Excellence in Written Journalism” award for her coverage of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. The Society of Features Journalism recognized her commentary as among the best in the country.

Sultan’s work explores social change with an emphasis on education, families, and inequality. As a news reporter, her investigations uncovered financial scandals, brought light to the unjust detention of a Senegalese religious leader, and gave a voice to underrepresented communities. She was awarded the Knight Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan to study the impact of technology on family life. She has also written and produced award-winning narrative and short films, hosted a podcast, and spoken at a number of conferences and universities.��

Sultan is currently a staff writer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and an adjunct professor of college writing at Washington University. She is also the proud parent of a current �԰����� student.��

As the head of marketing at Nike in New York City, Bené Eaton leads a team of more than 45 world-class marketers. She is a steward of industry-leading campaigns and oversees key external relationships across sponsorships, partnerships, leagues, and athletes. She is part of Nike’s North America Marketing Executive Leadership Team and mentors 10 direct reports.��

Formerly, Eaton served as Ralph Lauren’s vice president of global brand marketing. There, she was responsible for developing and leading brand strategy, creating 360-degree integrated campaigns, and ensuring consistency and synergy across all regions and marketing channels. She also served as the senior lead of brand management at Under Armour in Baltimore, Maryland.��

Eaton grew up in San Antonio. She earned her bachelor’s degree from �԰�����, where she majored in communication and speech communication and minored in business and communication management. She also holds a master’s degree in communication from the University of Houston. Eaton currently resides in New York City with her husband, Dr. Kevin Eaton ’09, their one-and-a-half-year-old son, Wilder, and their dog, Huxley.��

Philip A. (Phil) Wetz graduated from �԰����� ��University in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and went on to earn his MBA from Tulane University in 1975. In the same year he started a nearly 34-year career with ExxonMobil, where he initially worked in the finance and marketing functions, but went on to spend the majority of his career in the company’s public affairs (PA) function. In his last two assignments, he was the global PA manager for the company’s chemical business and then the production function.

Following his retirement in 2009, Wetz has derived great joy from engaging in a wide range of volunteer activities including: serving as a hospital lay chaplain for 11 years; participating as a chaperone on 20 church youth mission trips; teaching 4th/5th grade Sunday School; serving on his church’s Session; becoming a Stephen Minister and a Stephen Leader. Wetz has also served on various Regional Alumni Club leadership boards and currently serves as a highly engaged member of �԰�����’s Board of Visitors.

Wetz and his wife, Linda, were married in the Marguerite B. Parker Chapel during Wetz’s graduation weekend by Rev. Raymond Judd ’56. They have been blessed with two daughters and a two-year-old grandson.

Karla Hagen Phillips is a graduate of the Class of 1992 and a proud member of Gamma Chi Delta. She is a sales professional with extensive corporate training experience and currently serves as the associate director of athletic and affinity group giving and engagement at �԰�����. Phillips credits her early career success as a direct result of the leadership skills she gained as a student leader within Greek Life. Phillips served as an alumna adviser for Gamma Chi Delta from 2011-14.

Working with student leaders brought her great fulfillment and eventually led to Phillips returning to �԰����� as a staff member in 2018. Phillips lives in San Antonio with her husband Lorne, her son Luke, and her daughter Grace.

John Burnam is the co-founder and principal of Burnam | Gray, a nonprofit and social impact consulting firm based in San Antonio. In 2020, Burnam | Gray was officially certified as San Antonio’s first B-Corporation. Burnam’s work focuses on programs and outcomes evaluation, operational assessment and management, brand and identity development, strategic communications and marketing, governance, public policy and political campaigns.

Burnam has a bachelor’s degree from �԰����� and a master’s degree from Vanderbilt, and he is currently pursuing a master's degree in international development from the University of Edinburgh. Burnam was recognized by the San Antonio Business Journal's "40 under 40" in 2016, was a member of the 2014 class of Leadership SAISD, and is currently serving as a democratic precinct chair. Burnam and his wife Niki are passionate advocates of the foster and adoption community and officially adopted two of their three daughters in 2019. They currently live in Mahncke Park, San Antonio with their two seven-year-olds named Molly and Sophia, five-year-old named McKayla, and cats named Aristotle and Archimedes.