Danny Vogwill

Education has always been important for Danny Vogwill – they started out attending specialized Chicago Public Schools for fine arts (elementary) and agriculture (high school).  When it came time for college in 2018, they selected the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a multitude of factors, including comfortability, impressions, and student body size. 

Originally, they were going to live in the Florida Avenue Residence Halls (FAR), but made a list-minute, random switch to Allen Hall, which paid off!  Immediately, Danny “fell in love” with Allen and the Unit One community, and started getting involved with programming and the Hall Council.  That turned into a job as an RA, which they held at both Allen and the Illinois Street Residence Halls (ISR) for the rest of their college career. 

Starting as a freshman (pre-RA), they created and hosted five seasons of Allen Hall Big Brother, even returning to the hall when working and living at ISR to host the fifth season.  They would always read Allen Notes, and took full advantage of the opportunities – events, programs, guests-in-residence – that being in the Allen/Unit One orbit offered.  Even during the coronavirus pandemic, which shut down campus in the spring of their sophomore year, they maintained programming as much as possible and tried to keep a sense of normalcy for their residents.  Having arrived as a biochemistry major, they switched to Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) and graduated in 2022.