Below is a list of alumni who have signed on to the letter so far:
# | Name, College, Graduation Year: | Additional Comments: |
1. | Jaime Davidson, 2022 | Choose to take the same historic stance as you did with divestment from South Africa. MSU still has the chance to turn its reputation around! |
2. | Delaney McDermott, James Madison College, 2021 | The university must live up to its stated values and promises to protect students by divesting from Israel and all war profiting companies and following all of the stated demands in this letter. |
3. | Hazel Anderson, College of Natural Science, 2021 | |
4. | Carly M Lesoski, 2014 & 2019 | |
5. | Tammi Cervantes, College of Social Science, 2020 | |
6. | Jakob Myers, College of Arts & Letters, 2021 | |
7. | Ali Aoun, James Madison College, 2019 | |
8. | Arifa Syeda, James Madison College, 2021 | |
9. | Kyle Dunn, Anthropology, 2012 | |
10. | Jocylen Fox, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, 2011 | |
11. | Stefan Mitra Lindahl, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, 2020 | Free Palestine |
12. | NR, College of Social Science, Human Medicine, 2011 | |
13. | Andreah Patsalis, College of Social Science, 2021 | |
14. | Jillian Riney, James Madison College, 2021 | |
15. | Azra Causevic, College of Social Science, Arts & Letters, 2010 | |
16. | Rosa Razmi, James Madison College, 2022 | |
17. | Kyle Whitehouse, 2021 | |
18. | EMR, Eli Broad College of Business, 2023 | This is embarrassing for the university to be any sort of complacent with genocide |
19. | Greg McClure, College of Arts & Letters, 2020 | Our university has a moral imperative to stand up for Palestinian rights at a time when over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed with help through MSU’s funding |
20. | Anonymous, 2023 | |
21. | Marisa Mercurio, PhD, College of Arts & Letters, 2023 | |
22. | Anonymous, College of Social Science, 2022 | |
23. | K., James Madison College, 2021 | |
24. | Sjana Baker, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, 2020 | Thank you current students for your work. ❤️ |
25. | Ali Ahmad, 2023 | |
26. | Sabrina, 2020 | Not a donor but will be considering other schools for grad school due to this issue |
27. | Omar Qahwash, College of Natural Science, Osteopathic Medicine, 1997, 2002 | |
28. | Poppins/M.T., Lyman Briggs College, 2023 | God willing, we’ll see an end to the bloodshed. |
29. | Michelle Rozwadowski, College of Natural Sciences, 2018 | |
30. | Eseraa Ali, College of Arts & Letters, 2023 | |
31. | JJF, 2020 | |
32. | Yusuf Abbas, 2023 | I am ashamed that my tuition money and the university that my family holds dear is used to fund the very same weapons that are used to kill children in Palestine. |
33. | ANV, James Madison College, 2021 | Your community is watching. MSU must divest. If nothing else, honor the memory of Tariq Thabet. |
34. | Megan Kramer, James Madison College, 2020 | |
35. | Skyler Leslie, James Madison College, 2021 | DIVEST |
36. | JH, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, 2019 | |
37. | Aalayna Green, College of Natural Science, 2021 | |
38. | Bara Aldasouqi, College of Engineering, 2015 | |
39. | KF, James Madison College, 2021 | |
40. | SF, James Madison College, 23 | |
41. | Melissa Malinowski, College of Social Science, 2022 | |
42. | Julia Noel, College of Natural Science, Social Science, 2024 | I know others with more excess funds will want to contribute financially if the university divested and reinvested funding in this way. |
43. | EJ, 2012 | |
44. | SA | |
45. | Jo Kovach, James Madison College, 2023 | |
46. | Leonard Pennisi, School of Social Work, 2017 | |
47. | Eduardo Olivo, College of Natural Resources, 1992 | |
48. | HK | I wish and hope the school does better. This is embarrassing, and we all know that we can do better. |
49. | Quinn Harrison, School of Social Science, 2021 | |
50. | Mariah Hall, College of Natural Science, 2016 | Ceasefire now! |
51. | Chloe, Honors College, 2020 | |
52. | Mariam, James Madison College, 2020 | |
53. | Rachel, James Madison College, 2019 | Have empathy and understanding and nuance please |
54. | Omar Hamdi, 2027 | FREE PALESTINE |
55. | Jay Lovelady, 2020 | Tell MSU – do the right thing. |
56. | Hannine Aqel, 2021 | Choose humanity. |
57. | Elizabeth Tanner, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, 2021 | |
58. | Veronica, James Madison College, 2021 | |
59. | Aubrey Grevemeyer, Honors College, College of Social Science, 2020 | I will not support MSU of it does not stand with human rights. |
60. | Anna Rose Benson, 2022 | |
61. | Jackson Schooley, College of Social Science, 2022 | |
62. | Nevaeh Marshall, College of Agriculture & Natural Resouces, 2023 | |
63. | JF, James Madison College, 2022 | |
64. | Lindsey Eveland, James Madison College, 2020 | |
65. | Sarah VerHey, 2012 | Take a stand to show that MSU is willing to do what it takes to uphold all human rights and to end all support for repressive regimes |
66. | Shiksha Sneha, James Madison College, 2021 | |
67. | Aaron Mariasy, College of Social Sciences, 2021 | Free Palestine. We deserve better, the MSU community has been through enough. |
68. | Melissa Sarmiento-Alvare, James Madison College, 2021 | Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians. MSU must divest. |
69. | Leyla, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, 2019 | |
70. | Emerson Wigand, James Madison College, 2022 | |
71. | Edvard Tingstad, College of Social Science, Arts & Letters, 2019 | |
72. | Anonymous, LF | |
73. | Sarise Hammad, College of Social Science, 2020 | |
74. | Johanna Grimes, 2005 | |
75. | Christine So, 2022 | |
76. | HK, 2017 | |
77. | Basma Hegazy, 2023 | divest now |
78. | Alan Saleh, 2022 | |
79. | Zahra Saad, James Madison College, 2018 | |
80. | Abigail Johnson, College of Natural Science, 2017 | Michigan State has been a perpetrator and an enabler of violence and injustice too many times. I hope they take this opportunity to show us they are capable of doing what’s right |
81. | Jordan Gembarski, Lyman Briggs College, 2023 | |
82. | SRD, College of Social Science, 2021 | MSU needs to be on the right side of history |
83. | ACA, James Madison College, 2017 | |
84. | Bhavya Kamepalli, Lyman Briggs College, 2023 | |
85. | Maen Hammad, College of Social Science, 2014 | |
86. | Sophie Schmidt, College of Arts & Letters, 2020 | |
87. | Raquel Acosta, James Madison College, 2023 | As a public land grant university, MSU should understand the true harm of displacement. |
88. | Kera Conroy, 2020 | |
89. | Ahmad Anani, 2018 | This is an ethical dilemma, not a financial one. |
90. | VSA, College of Social Science, 2022 | Spartans Will achieve collective liberation!! 🍉 |
91. | Gabriel Schroeder, Music, 2022 | |
92. | Rachel Winfield, James Madison College, 2022 | |
93. | Kristina Bozin, 2019 | |
94. | SS, 2023 | |
95. | Anonymous, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, 2021 | |
96. | Anonymous, 2022 | Even throughout my undergraduate years I did not feel protected as a Palestinian student. We had to fight hard to keep our one advocacy group going. Knowing that the school I went to willingly contributes to the genocide of my people is sickening. Their support of Israel and lack of representation and protection for MENA and Palestinian students made me decide to not pursue my graduate education at MSU. I’d rather go somewhere where who respects my identity. |
97. | Samuel Miners, College of Social Science, 2019 | Stop supporting genocide. |
98. | JD, Eli Broad College of Business, 2025 | |
99. | Emily Estrada, 2021 | |
100. | Yafa Samaha, Eli Broad College of Business, 2020 | |
101. | Jaclyn Wilke, James Madison College, 2016 | Divest NOW or I will never give money and I will never recommend or promote Msu to my students or family |
102. | Hayley Van Fulpen, Eli Broad College of Business, 2020 and 2022 | |
103. | Sophia, 2017 | |
104. | Sarah, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, James Madison College, 2020 | |
105. | ODR, 2015 | |
106. | Nehareka Singh, College of Arts & Letters, 2021 | |
107. | Hana Ann Sameh Mamdouh Yehia Hassan Kamel, College of Law, 2022 | Nearly every person in my family has attended MSU. My parents met at MSU. My father and his father taught at MSU. MSU’s failure to divest has made me ashamed. I am ashamed not only of my own tenure at the law college, but ashamed that my late father and grandfather’s lifetime achievements and pride in their academic careers are cheapened by MSU’s failure to listen to its students and community. I will be the last in my family to offer money, time, or talent to MSU if MSU continues to fund what is the worst humanitarian crisis and deadliest conflict for children of our time. |
108. | Whitney McDowell, Psychology College, 2022 | |
109. | Hafsa Khan Owens, College of Social Science, 2023 | |
110. | MS | |
111. | Leah Louis-Ferdinand, 2023 | |
112. | Anonymous, Computer Science & Engineering | |
113. | AF, 2015 | |
114. | Charlotte Bachelor, College of Arts & Letters, 2023 | |
115. | AK, School of Social Work, 2022 (current masters student) | If Michigan State is able to acknowledge the land we are sitting on as belonging to indigenous tribes and the fact it is “stolen land”, why are they not putting forth effort into recognizing the experience of Palestinians who also had their land stolen? Land back is for everyone and I am disappointed by the university’s inability to create a safer space for it’s MENA students. |
116. | Sydney Nemetz, 2022 | |
117. | ALS, College of Social Science, 2017 & 2020 | |
118. | D.N.M, 2017 | |
119. | S.G., James Madison College, 2019 | |
120. | Zainab Salah, 2022 | |
121. | Hannah Faye Nassar, James Madison College, 2024 | Free Palestine. |
122. | Ashley A., 2014 | |
123. | Grace dellinger-pate, James Madison College, College of Music, 2022 | I am ashamed to be an alumni of this university for MANY reasons. The bare minimum MSU can do is protect its students, faculty, and staff here and abroad. This goal is impossible to achieve if msu does not immediately divest from genocide. |
124. | Jennifer Ausbrooks, 2018 & 2020 | |
125. | Youssef Abdelhafiz, 2019 | |
126. | Anonymous, College of Social Science, 2018 & 2020 | |
127. | Isabel Davidson, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, 2021 | Do what is right, divest from genocide |
128. | Andrea Fontana, 2012 | |
129. | Anonymous | |
130. | Kiera Quigley, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, 2020 | |
131. | KZ | |
132. | Nicole Moody, 2017, 2022 | |
133. | Skylar A., College of Social Science, 2018, 2023 | |
134. | Julia Beaumier, School of Packaging, 2018 | |
135. | Anonymous | |
136. | Ericka, 2018 | |
137. | SN, 2022 | |
138. | Eloise Mitchell, James Madison College, 2019 | |
139. | Molly Costantino, 2021 | |
140. | Anonymous, College of Law, 2022 | |
141. | Robert Ray Jr., 2015 & 2019 | |
142. | Lee Cleaveland, 2018 | |
143. | Isaiah Hawkins, College of Music, 2020 | |
144. | Anonymous, 2014 | |
145. | Talyce Murray, James Madison College, 2020. | Former ASMSU Rep and East Lansing Chair of Human Rights. |
146. | V.J.M, College of Social Science, 2019 | |
147. | Chris Revak, College of Music, 2019 | |
148. | Anonymous, 2020 & 2022 | Now more than ever it has become a necessity to show our solidarity for the injustices that are befalling humanity in today’s geopolitical landscape. Let us stand on the side of history that advocates for social change and not just states we hold a strong value towards it. Genocide is a crime against humanity that is committed in secret. Do not allow this to go on unacknowledged. Actions will always speak louder than mere words and now is the time where it is most imperative to act in ways that will uphold and safeguard marginalized and vulnerable voices and peoples. Spartans Will advocate for social change and a better world. |
149. | W.C., College of Engineering, 2021 | Do the right thing, if not because you actually believe in it, then because of our pressure on you. Tens of thousands are dead and your hands are bloodied even if you don’t know it. |
150. | Erin Foley, 2022 | |
151. | RJV, James Madison College, 2021 | |
152. | Regin Horan, Eli Broad College of Business, 2020 | |
153. | Beth, 2023 | |
154. | ML, College of Music, 2020 | |
155. | Karthik, 2022 | |
156. | SJN, 2021 | |
157. | ZHB, 2010 | As a U.S Federal Employee and MSU Alumni I’m deeply ashamed that our tax dollars are funding an occupation and genocide in the occupied Palestinian Territories by the Zionist government of Israel. The Prime Minister Netanyahu and his Knesset are war criminals responsible for the deaths of over 35 thousand Palestinians. |
158. | Terese Warn, 2014 | |
159. | Cassidee Centilli, College of Engineering, 2023 | |
160. | Meredith Detweiler, 2021 | I want my Alma mater on the right side of history, and to support victims of genocide. I as an individual feel so helpless to change the course of things and can’t alone break down oppressive systems, but institutions like universities can and I can choose where my money and resources go. Since graduation 2 years ago I have been involved in the alumni network in Chicago and have come back to recruit current students for internships and full-time roles at the company I work at. I do not plan to continue involvement with and support of the university if there is no change, and I know many of my fellow alumni feel the same. |
161. | Mona Eldahshoury, 2024 | Education and academia have always been the liberation of the mind. Zionism is not. |
162. | Fattima Ali, 2021 | |
163. | William Hackbarth, College of Arts & Letters, 2020 | |
164. | Anonymous | |
165. | Kayla Makela, College of Natural Science, Music, 2020 | |
166. | Audrea Dakho, 2023 | MSU has plagued itself with scandals and controversies for far too long. Genocide should not be yet another reason for MSU to be remembered for. |
167. | Briah Spencer, James Madison College, 2019 | |
168. | JW, College of Osteopathic Medicine | |
169. | Peter Fowler, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2020 | |
170. | Jeff Mirek, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, 2007 | Free Palestine. |
171. | Rory, James Madison College, 2020 | |
172. | AP, College of Social Science, 2021 | |
173. | Stacy, 2015 | |
174. | Anna Bunting, 2020 | Faculty, staff, and students at MSU taught me what ethnic cleansing looked like and how to disrupt colonial systems of oppression – free Palestine |
175. | DS, 2020 | As if Larry Nassar didn’t give me enough reason to regret going to this school, funding a genocide with student’s money that the MSU police couldn’t protect from a mass shooter is just the icing on the cake. |
176. | Sydney Ryan, 2022 | MSU should be disgusted to support the murder and destruction of an entire people. MSU supporting the genocide of an entire people is disgusting and shameful. |
177. | Michael Orbain, College of Natural Science, 2020 | |
178. | Salan Alraban, 2022 | |
179. | Zaria Phillips | Free Palestine |
180. | I.K., College of Law, 2023 | |
181. | TF, College of Social Science, 2016 | |
182. | Arsh Rathod, 2023 | |
183. | Jacquelyn Miller, College of Social Science, 2002 | |
184. | Lynn Lammers, Department of Theatre, 2009 | |
185. | Justice Curry, College of Arts & Letters, 2022 | |
186. | PS, 2022 | |
187. | Dr. Joseph Mandwee, 2017 | Free Palestine |
188. | James M. Demin, College of Social Science, 2007 | |
189. | Jon J | |
190. | Alexandra Ross, 2012 | |
191. | Molly Rooney, Forestry, 2011 | |
192. | Lesly Morales, College of Social Science, 2022 | |
193. | Anonymous, College of Arts & Letters, 2001 | I do not support genocide or occupation regimes. The college should not be benefiting from the brutal murder and oppression of others! |
194. | Alessandra Attari, 2022 | Stand up for what is right and be a leader in the academic world. Divest from the apartheid, genocidal state that is Israel. Free Palestine NOW. |
195. | HT, James Madison College, 2018 | |
196. | Lindsy Marshall, Lyman Briggs College, 2016 | |
197. | JP, James Madison College, 2018 | |
198. | Elise de Geus, College of Natural Science, 2017 | |
199. | Spencer Savage, James Madison College, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, 2021 | I would like to participate more in MSU events, activities, and promotion, because I am proud of the work I and other students and faculty do. The continual disrespect shown to me and other student organizers and community members who ask for accountability, empathy, and transparency from our university makes me unwilling to be a proud Spartan most days. |
200. | Ian H, Lyman Briggs College, 2017 | |
201. | Lenda, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, 2022 | Free Palestine |
202. | Anonymous, 2015 | |
203. | Montazar Alessa, 2015 | |
204. | Luke Adams, 2023 | |
205. | Jake Martin, College of Education, 2019 | |
206. | Taylor Rasmussen, College of Arts & Letters, 2021 | |
207. | Maggie Haite, Honors College & Lyman Briggs College, 2023 | |
208. | Alissa Hakim, 2024 | |
209. | Julia Kramer, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, 2013 | |
210. | Nicole Geller, College of Arts & Letters, 2015 | |
211. | Paige Utterback, College of Social Science, 2019 | Free Palestine |
212. | Colin Dick, 2014 | |
213. | Maezie Nettleton, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2024 | Cut ties. Value lives and what your students have to say more than making a profit. |
214. | Kyle Funk, Professional Writing, 2008 | Student protest movements are always on the right side of history. MSU has an opportunity to join them. |
215. | Charles Butterworth, Social Sciences Divisional and Honors College, 1959 | |
216. | Nelson Brown, School of Social Science, 1967 | |
217. | Erin Paskus, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, 2018 | Free Palestine |
218. | Melissa Fore, College of Arts & Letters (English), 2009 | |
219. | Megan Hackbarth, 2020, 2022 | |
220. | Jordan Lindsay, Lyman Briggs College, 2014 | |
221. | Michaela Valo, 2019 | |
222. | Sarah Dowd, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, 2011 | Free Palestine |
223. | Kate Spinillo, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, 2009 | |
224. | RJH, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, 2013 | |
225. | Becky Payne, College of Human Ecology, 1983 | |
226. | Sarah Williams, 2014 | |
227. | OE, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, 2020 | |
228. | Megan Kelly, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, 2014 | |
229. | Lily Zuber, James Madison College, 2024 | |
230. | GA, James Madison College, 2020 | |
231. | JG, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, 2020 | |
232. | Hayden Harris, College of Arts & Letters, 2019 | |
233. | Hollyann Swart, School of Social Work, 2021, 2022 | |
234. | Nora, Eli Broad College of Business, Class of 2011 | As a people of conscience and as an institution that is educating values to its students, MSU should join the movement to end the ongoing genocide in Gaza and end the apartheid in Palestine. |
235. | Mia Sobhi, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2013 | |
236. | Abrar, College of Natural Science, 2012 | Free Palestine |
237. | Kelly Ransley, College of Arts & Letters, 2011 | Children who have never known peace have different values than children who’ve never known war. What values does MSU stand for? |
238. | Jennifer Lai, College of Social Science, 2021 | |
239. | Anonymous, Department of Agricultural, Food, & Resource Economics, 2022 | |
240. | Ryan Roehler, 2019 | Withholding all donations until MSU divests |
241. | Muneeza Azmat, College of Engineering, 2023 | |
242. | Sibbir Ahmad | |
243. | Fateh Arshed Mohammed, School of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, 2020 | |
244. | Kelsey Hopkins, Department of Agricultural, Food, & Resource Economics (PhD), 2024 | Please act and be on the right side of history. Divest now. |
245. | Sarah Davis, College of Social Science, 2020 | MSU did it before for South Africa and they can do it again for Palestine. |
246. | Kayla Effner, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, 2020 | End the genocide! |
247. | Andrew Bracken, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, 2024 | |
248. | Madison B, 2021 | |
249. | Laura Marmolejo, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, 2024 | |
250. | Aren Kurth, College of Social Science, 2020 | |
251. | CK, 2020 | |
252. | Bassam Sayegh, College of Social Science, 2021 | |
253. | Anonymous, College of Natural Science, 2022 | I am ashamed to be a Spartan and know that this school is complacent with the genocide of Palestinians including one of our own Spartans for the sake of money. You have a chance to make a difference right now, do better and stand on the right side of history. |
254. | Cassandra Perry, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, 2018 | No one is free until Palestine is free. Michigan State profiting off of the dead bodies of thousands of people is sickening and despicable. |
255. | Gigi Ngcobo, Eli Broad College of Business, 2020 | |
256. | Samuel Burton, Department of Mathematics (MS), 2019 | I consider solidarity with Palestine and opposition to genocide to be fundamental matters of Jewish conscience and find cynical accusations of antisemitism levied against any movement for Palestinian rights utterly repulsive. |
257. | Nehal Amer, James Madison College, 2012 | I consider solidarity with Palestine and opposition to genocide to be fundamental matters of Jewish conscience and find cynical accusations of antisemitism levied against any movement for Palestinian rights utterly repulsive. |
258. | Nada Zohdy, James Madison College, 2011 | |
259. | Anonymous, College of Natural Science, 2006 | |
260. | Zachary F. Burton, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Ph.D.), Professor Emeritus | I am concerned about the fate of Gaza and Israel |