- Top Twenty Young Professionals to Watch in 2012 – Brazen Careerist
- Top 5 Finalist – Crain’s Small Business Competition
- Top Ten Finalist – MIT Enterprise Forum Whiteboard Challenge
- Top Ten Finalist – Cinema Prosperite, the SEVEN FUND
- Boston College Young Alumni Award of Excellence
- If You had Fifteen Seconds, What Would You Tell the World – video contest winner; CBS-TV national broadcast
- dating rubik’s cube – Best Short Documentary, Illinois International Film Festival, 2006; Best Documentary nominee, Pumelo Film Festival, Mumbai, India
General Press
- Creative Retreats Give Adults the Summer Camp Experience, the Cassandra Report
- Summer Camp for Adults: 4 Professional Retreats to Explore in 2013, Forbes
- Does Chicago Really Need Another Incubator?, CRAIN’S Chicago Business
- Summer Camp Getaways Where You Can Recharge, Tasting Table
- Just Say Yes: Your Guide to a Summer Retreat, PureWow
- Why Not Girl! of the Week: Saya Hillman, Why Not Girl
- Make Everybody Less Lonely, The Narrative Renewal Project
- How one woman is connecting all of Chicago, Idealist
- Finding a Work Space that Feels Like Home, CRAIN’S Chicago Business
- A community of people who bring ideas to life, IdeaMensch
- Scholarship Winners: Thirty years, eight lives, Boston College Magazine
- Introducing the Passion x Interview Series: Saya Hillman, KickTable
- How to Create a Career Without a Full-Time Job, US News & World Report
- 7 Secrets for 7 Years: An Entrepreneur Shares, CareerBuilder
- When You Get a Good Idea, It Just Blows Up, Insight Labs
- Singles 2011: Where Are They Now?, Chicago Magazine
- Saya Hillman: A Connector in the Middle of Everything, Chicago Tribune
- The Key to Better Networking, WGN Radio
- Mac ‘n Cheese featured at the Boston College Career Center, a spotlight on BC alumni and their jobs
- How Saya Hillman Made a Business Out of Dinner Parties, Entrepreneurs Unplugged
- Mac ‘n Cheese featured on Bike Fancy, a website about “people looking good on bikes”
- The Key to Better Networking: Saya Hillman Says, “Take it Back to the Dinner Table”, Technori
- Meet the Busiest Hostess in Chicago, NBC’s The Feast!
- I’m Not Always Creative During 9 to 5, Part I; Part II, Rise of the Cubicle Farmer
- Chicago Artist Resource Profile
- Top 20 Singles, Chicago Magazine, 2008 [and 2011 follow-up]
Folk Blogging About Mac ‘n Cheese
- Say Anything: creativity as a way of life, Squam
- Inspiration from a Mac ‘n Cheese Potluck, doejo
- 28 before 29, #3: Saya Hillman of Mac ‘N Cheese Productions, Julia Smith
- How to Master Leadership, doejo
- Insights from a potluck of ideas with Mac n’ Cheese Productions, doejo
- A Chicago Fear Experiment, Just Rick
- An Open Door, Life of Lulu
- Networking is Key, Velvetstyle
Fear Experiment Press
- Face your (Theatrical) Fears in Chicago with Fear Experiment Five, The Local Tourist
- Face your fears and learn Spanish… in front of 700 people! It’s Fear Experiment: Spanish, Multilingual Chicago
- Face Our Fears: What Art Form Would You Perform for a Packed Theater?, Good
- Fear Experiment 2 Live at Park West Saturday April 28, 2012, The Examiner
- Interview: FearExperiment - The Leap Year Project
- My Chicago Bucket List: A Dance Experiment, Gapers Block
- 30-Hour Improv Marathon, Time Out Chicago
- Inspire Me Chicago 2011, WBEZ’s Sarah Jindra
- Amateurs Take the Stage at the Park West, Time Out Chicago
- Critic’s Pick, Time Out Chicago
- Marconi Students to Perform at Park West This Weekend, Austin Talks
- Embracing the Fear, the Columbia Chronicle
- Inspire Me Chicago 2010, WBEZ’s Sarah Jindra
Fear Experiment Blog Posts
- Design Mom
- My Chicago Bucket List: Become Everything I am – project participant
- Afraid Together – project participants
- Life is a Journey, Not a Destination - project participant
- Marconi Digital Media Club - student participants
- My Life’s List #1 - project participant
- My Life’s List #2 - project participant
- Katie Going Global - project participant
- Richard Chapman - project photographer
- The Mac ‘n Cheese Lifestyle - project creator
- DJ Sparkle Bomb - project participant
- DJ Sparkle Bomb #2 - project participant
- Titles, Inc. – audience member
- Paperback Musings Chicago – audience member
Mingler Press
ABC-TV [though this segment is slanted towards singles, you do not have to be single to attend a Mingler]
- Chicago Dating 2.011: Pressing the Power Button, Gaper’s Block
- Time Out Chicago, 2009
- Time Out Chicago, 2007
- Dining With Strangers On Purpose, Chicago Tribune, 2011
Mingler Guest Blog Posts
- Chicago’s Social Guinea Pig- What’s a Mingler?!?
- Shalina Recommends: How to Make 40 New Friends in One Night
- The City 77: Plug it In
- Righting the Courtship: Fishing Hole Review – Social Mixers
- Girl on Top of the World: New Adventures