Cami Alling
Business Development Manager, SpawGlass
Years Attended & Degree: Graduated in 2010, Associates of Science, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
Alumni Service Award: Honoring dedication to volunteerism and community service.

Cami Alling attended Austin Community College before beginning a career that has included more than a decade with SpawGlass. Since joining the company in 2013, she has served in a variety of roles including estimating, project management and business development. In her current role as Business Development Manager, she works closely with project teams and business partners to build relationships and support the participation of small and local businesses on SpawGlass projects.Beyond her project-related contributions, Cami plays a key role in coordinating SpawGlass' philanthropic initiatives. She works directly with nonprofit organizations that benefit from the company's fundraising efforts, helping plan charitable events and foster meaningful community partnerships. An active supporter of the Austin Community College Foundation, she is also involved with the Association of Medical Facilities Professionals (AMFP) and Contractors Growth Alliance. Through her professional leadership and community involvement, Cami has helped strengthen connections between SpawGlass, its partners and the communities they serve.

Monica Muñoz Andry
President and CEO | Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Years Attended & Degree: Associate of Arts, Psychology Major, class of 1999
Community Leader of the Year: Honoring champions who make a profound impact on the ACC community.

Monica Muñoz Andry is President and CEO of the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GAHCC), where she leads efforts to advance Hispanic business growth, economic mobility, leadership development, and advocacy across Central Texas. Since 2022, she has guided the Chamber through significant growth, expanding its regional and statewide influence while strengthening partnerships that support entrepreneurs, workforce development, and economic opportunity. She is a trusted voice on issues impacting Hispanic-owned businesses and frequently engages with business, nonprofit, and government leaders on economic growth, workforce development, and community advancement. 

She has served in statewide leadership roles with the Texas Hispanic Chambers of Commerce Coalition (THCCC) and is actively involved in numerous civic and nonprofit initiatives throughout the region. 

Prior to joining GAHCC, Monica spent more than 21 years in leadership roles at University Federal Credit Union. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations from The University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Concordia University Texas. 

Victor Diaz
News Anchor, Spectrum News
Years Attended & Degree: Associate of Arts, Radio-Television-Film, Class of 1999
Distinguished Alumni Award: Recognizing long-term professional success and leadership.

Victor Diaz is a longtime news anchor and reporter who graduated from ACC with an Associate of Arts in Radio/TV/Film in 1999.For more than two decades he’s covered news, sports and entertainment for Austin’s 24-hour cable TV news channel, now shown state-wide as Spectrum News 1.

Victor’s media career started as a sportswriter for the Austin American-Statesman, and as an intern at News 8 Austin before graduating from Texas State University. In the following years he regularly reported from the San Antonio Spurs and Texas Longhorn sidelines, the South By Southwest Film Festival red carpets, and held a long running weekly film review series. He’s appeared in several network TV shows produced in Austin, including “Friday Night Lights.”

More recently Victor delivers the top news stories in Texas and specializes in breaking news coverage of urgent weather and news events as they happen.  

Shilda Fresch
Full Time student at Texas State
Years Attended & Degree: AS Sociology, 2025
Young Alumni Achievement Award: Honoring graduates of the last decade who have demonstrated excellence in their fields or communities

Shilda Fresch is a proud Austin Community College alumna, first-generation college student, mother, grandmother, adoptive parent, creative entrepreneur, author, music artist, student advocate, and lifelong learner whose journey reflects perseverance, purpose, and the transformative power of education.

A former foster youth, Shilda uses her lived experience to advocate for young people navigating foster care. In 2022, she was one of four panelists at ACC’s 3rd Annual Foster Care/Teen Conference, where she shared her story and perspective with teens and young adults navigating or aging out of foster care. She has continued this advocacy through ACC’s Foster Care Luggage Drive, helping raise awareness of the challenges foster youth face as they transition into adulthood.

Shilda earned associate degrees in General Studies and Sociology from ACC, along with a certificate in Nonprofit Leadership and Management. She continues her education at Texas State University, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Sociology with a minor in Mass Communication.

Shilda is the author of Better Together and Move Out the Way, It’s Adoption Day and the creator of Love Builds Up (LBU), an educational children’s media project focused on nurturing young minds and building the minds of the future.

She is also an Austin R&B and hip-hop artist and songwriter, with music including “You Will Benefit” and “You Make a Better Me.” She remixed “R.B. Step,” also known as “The Riverbat Step,” an original ACC song featured at the end of R.B. and Friends, an ACC children’s television program.

Through education, storytelling, music, and advocacy, Shilda continues turning her experiences into opportunities to inspire others and demonstrate what is possible when perseverance meets purpose.

Laurie Frick
Data Artist based in Austin, Texas
Entrepreneur of the Year: Celebrating innovative alumni business leaders.
Years Attended & Degree: CCoursework in Studio Art, 2003-2005

Laurie Frick builds hand-made works in wool, leather, and paint assembled from the data of daily life. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across North America, including the Getty-sponsored PST ART: Art & Science Collide in Los Angeles, the Musée de la Civilisation in Quebec City, Oklahoma Contemporary, Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York, and Edward Cella Art & Architecture in Los Angeles. She has held residencies at Yaddo, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the McColl Center, and artist-in-residence appointments at Samsung Research and Facebook. Her work has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and in The Atlantic and Wired, and she has spoken at Google, Stanford, SXSW, and TEDx. Frick holds an MFA from the New York Studio School and studied at NYU's ITP. Born in Los Angeles, she lives and works in Austin, Texas. Represented by GF Contemporary, Michele Mariaud Gallery, and Ivester Contemporary.

Jesse Landry
Co-Founder, Ryde First & Last-Mile Mobility Solutions
Years Attended & Degree: Coursework in Business Administration and General Education, 2005-2006 (Transferred to Texas State)
Riverbat-Owned Business: Celebrating innovative alumni business leaders.

Jesse Landry is an entrepreneur and Co-Founder of RYDE, a Texas-based transportation company transforming how communities connect to public transit and the local places they live, work, and visit through innovative first- and last-mile mobility solutions. 

An Austin Community College alumnus, Jesse credits his time at ACC with playing an important role in his educational journey and helping prepare him for his transition to Texas State University and the career that followed. The smaller class environment at ACC gave him the opportunity to build meaningful relationships with professors and receive a level of individual attention and support that can be difficult to find at a large university. That experience helped Jesse strengthen his academic foundation, build confidence, and prepare for the next stage of his education at Texas State. He considers his time at ACC an important part of the foundation that helped shape his future success. 

Under Jesse’s leadership, RYDE has grown into a multimillion-dollar transportation company, providing hundreds of thousands of passenger trips and partnering with major public transit agencies across Texas. His work has helped demonstrate how locally focused companies can successfully partner with large public agencies to deliver transportation solutions that are scalable, innovative, and responsive to the communities they serve. 

Jesse is honored to return to Austin Community College and be recognized for his professional accomplishments, entrepreneurial success, and continued commitment to building businesses that make a meaningful impact.

Amy Ledbetter Parham
CEO, Habitat for Humanity Texas
Years Attended & Degree: Certificate in Grant Writing at the Center for Nonprofit Studies at Austin Community College
Community Leader of the Year: Honoring champions who make a profound impact on the ACC community.

Amy Ledbetter Parham is CEO of Habitat for Humanity Texas, where she leads statewide efforts to strengthen affordable homeownership, build nonprofit capacity, and advance public policy benefiting Texas families and communities since 2012. Her career spans more than two decades across nonprofit leadership, state government, construction, and community development.Her connection to Austin Community College began early in her nonprofit career, when she became a frequent participant in professional education offered through ACC’s Center for Nonprofit Studies. Those classrooms helped shape her understanding of nonprofit leadership and introduced her to one of her earliest mentors, beginning a friendship that continues today. She credits those experiences with helping transform practical experience into more intentional leadership.Amy holds a Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin and has served by gubernatorial appointment on the Texas Nonprofit Council. A certified mediator, she is particularly interested in how leaders navigate complex systems, organizational change, and competing interests to create lasting public value.She remains deeply grateful to ACC for making serious, practical learning accessible at a pivotal point in her career.