 Twin sisters Almyra Illiana and Giovanna Crozel fixtures in Chicago's Purdue alumni scene pay it forward through service to the Purdue Alumni Association and Generosity as president's council members My name is Almyra Rubanio Illiana aka sugar, and I'm at Accenture It's a global IT company and I am in global quality specifically risk management and analytics, and I've been there 19 years My name is Giovanna Crozel Illiana Crozel. I go by GEO or I go by spice I am the director of global procurement at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and I'm responsible for bringing value to Supply chain in goods and services that we use at Takeda Professionally and personally Purdue has definitely given me giant leaps. I'm the president of the Purdue alumni club of Chicago I'm also a founding member of the founding women's circle of the International Council of Purdue women An executive advisory board there as well as a women's board a member of the Adler planetarium and without our connection that Purdue and without Having the credentials. I think that a Purdue education and degree has I don't think that would have been possible I think when I was interviewing for different roles through my career having that Purdue engineering degree was almost a great gateway to that next role and also Meeting other Purdue alumni and knowing that expectation and that credibility that brings with that degree and with that experience And with names like sugar and spire yes grandfather when people when we tell people oh we're Purdue University chemical engineers the look in their eyes are like. Yes. Oh wow respect It's sweetness and spice with some substance as far as a footprint that I would like to leave her force or two sets of friends The same footprints that have been embedded in us with people from Purdue that have given us so much whether it's support or Introductions connections and and just even the love the Purdue we always a lot of pride that a lot of pride I'd love to be able to say, you know, especially with Purdue alumni clubs of Chicagoland because we raise a lot of scholarships and We we meet a lot with students and prospective students and alumni is what young alumni And we would love to be able to impart the same knowledge and love of Purdue to the next generation And we self-funded our schooling at Purdue actually so we were on scholarship Work study and so being actually part co-op so being part of an organization like the alumni Associations and raising that money to me. It's giving somebody a chance to actually come to the one of actually the best school that we know And have them have that opportunity and I don't want to say it's like a footprint in our heart because we love So much and we want to give back in that way That was Almira Ilyana and Giovanna Crozel look for more stories at grdu.edu slash footprints