![Image of Alecia Martin smiling, wearing a gray shirt and blue rimmed glasses](/sites/default/files/voices-images/2019/01/07/AleciaMartinWeb2.jpg)
Alecia Martin has an entrepreneurial spirit and has her sights set high.
![P.J. Randhawa smiles at the camera while standing in front of two trees and a building.](/sites/default/files/voices-images/2018/12/12/MainPJ.jpg)
For her investigative work with a St. Louis TV news program, Northeastern alumna P.J. Randhawa earned a Health and Science Mid-America Emmy Award.
![Kathleen Kelly smiles into the camera while wearing her park ranger uniform.](/sites/default/files/voices-images/2018/12/07/MainKelly.jpg)
If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, the first step of Kathleen Kelly’s journey of 56,932 miles took place at Northeastern.
![Christy Theodore Behnam walks across a bridge while holding a notebook.](/sites/default/files/voices-images/2018/11/13/girl_walking_across_bridge_890X370.jpg)
The human body has always fascinated Christy Theodore Behnam.
![Margo Odiko-Pim smiles with tree leaves in the background.](/sites/default/files/hub.neiu.edu/voices-images/2018/07/11/margo_voices.jpg)
Margo Odiko-Pim graduated in December 2017, but her work with Northeastern did not end there.
![President Gloria J. Gibson poses in front of the Northeastern logo.](/sites/default/files/hub.neiu.edu/voices-images/2018/06/01/DrGibson_home.jpg)
![Steve Deeloo smiles on a sunny day in Chicago.](/sites/default/files/hub.neiu.edu/voices-images/2018/05/29/Viewbook_418-4211-889_2.jpg)
Money is important to Steve Deeloo. Really important. It’s a value the Northeastern Illinois University senior developed growing up with his family in Iraq with little to get by.
![Victoria Valentine portrait.](/sites/default/files/hub.neiu.edu/voices-images/2018/05/11/Viewbook_418-1838-889_2.jpg)
Victoria Valentine always knew she wanted to be a teacher, but it wasn’t until she volunteered at a summer camp during sixth grade that she realized she wanted to pursue special education.
![Mateo Farzaneh poses in Mossadegh Servant Leaders Hall.](/sites/default/files/voices-images/2018/12/07/Mossadegh.jpg)
Associate Professor of History Mateo Farzaneh is principal of the NEIU Foundation’s Mossadegh Initiative.