SOLOMON SISKUND ’18

Solomon Siskind recently completed one year at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national office in Indianapolis, Indiana. At the NCAA, Siskind was a member of their 2022-23 Postgraduate Internship Program (PGIP) cohort working in the Office of Inclusion. There he supported and led diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) programming and education for the NCAA’s national office and 1,100 member institutions and conference offices.

A former college football athlete turned scholar-practitioner, Siskind understands the unique experience of being a college athlete, both the challenges and the opportunities, and aims to bring equity to college athletics. His current focus has been on athlete development at the collegiate level and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) within sports. His research interests focus on DEIB within sports, the sociology of sport, and athlete activism.

Upon completion of his program at the NCAA, he accepted an offer with the University of Illinois’ Division of Intercollegiate Athletics (DIA) on their Illini Way Student-Athlete Development team. The Illini Way Student-Athlete Development program aims to holistically support and develop Fighting Illini college athletes in all aspects of their college experience through career and leadership development, DEIB, and community outreach. Solomon has also accepted an offer with the University’s Recreation, Sport, and Tourism PhD program.

From Marion to Amherst to Indianapolis to Champaign and many stops in between!