A Neuqua Valley High School graduate stood on the Nasdaq MarketSite stage in Times Square on Tuesday, June 16, and pressed the button that closed the stock market for the day.

Logan White, 30, a corporate communications employee at LinkedIn, rang the Nasdaq closing bell at 4 p.m. ET alongside colleagues from the company's Black Inclusion Group, or BIG, ahead of Juneteenth. The Nasdaq was closed Friday, June 19, in observance of the holiday, making June 16 the last trading day before the commemoration.

"Doing so with a lot of the other Black people at my job, I think, made that particularly special because in this moment I was not the minority," White told NCTV17. "None of us were."

White is the daughter of Naperville City Councilman Benny White and his wife, Kim White, executive director of Naperville's Career and Networking Center. The family has called Naperville home since 2005.

As co-lead of LinkedIn's Washington, D.C. office BIG team, White was invited to join the bell-ringing several months ago by the group's global co-chairs. BIG is one of LinkedIn's 12 Employee Resource Groups. White and her colleagues spent the day in discussions and activities before the ceremony.

From Neuqua Valley to the Nasdaq

White graduated from Neuqua Valley High School, a two-time U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon School in Indian Prairie School District 204, before earning her degree at Howard University. She has worked at LinkedIn for four years and is pursuing a master's degree in project management at Georgetown University.

Her father, a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, previously served on the District 204 Board of Education before joining the Naperville City Council in May 2025.

School week ahead

No District 203 or District 204 board meetings are scheduled for the week of June 23. The next District 204 Board of Education meeting is Monday, July 13, at 7 p.m. at the Crouse Education Center.