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Claire Davies
MLIS, 2010
Claire has earned a Doctor of Education from University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. Her dissertation, entitled “Shelf Awareness: Public Librarians and Diverse Collections," aimed to bring to life how the values and beliefs of librarians influence collections. It was nominated for a Dissertation of Distinction award.
Lee Deitesfeld
MLIS, 2010
Lee works as a Senior Metadata Librarian at ProQuest.
Braxton Ehle
Informatics, 2010
Braxton has been at Tableau since late 2014. After spending 2 1/2 years as a security engineer on the Information Security team, he moved over to the Product Security team in August 2017. He's now focusing on operational and infrastructure security for the Tableau's customer-facing products.
Melody Sky Eisler
MLIS, 2010
Melody was included in a New York Times feature in October 2018. The newspaper asked 12 authors to write about the libraries they love, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx wrote about her Port Townsend Carnegie Library and what brought her into librarianship.
Melody began work at the Port Townsend, Washington, library in 2015. She was previously the manager of the Silverdale branch of Kitsap Regional Library, and had also served as chair of the Kitsap County Arts Board.
Mandy Fonville
MLIS, 2010
Mandy uses her background in healthcare to work as a User Research Engineer for a medical device company.
Kylie Fullmer
MLIS, 2010
After serving as the director of the East Adams Library District based out of Ritzville, Washington, for 10 years, Kylie started in 2020 as the new director of the Whitman County Rural Library District based out of Colfax, Washington. Its Malden branch burned to the ground in the Babb Road Fire, the evening before her first day.
"It's been a wild first week of work, to say the least!"
Rachel Hungerford
MSIM, 2010
Since January 2015, Rachel has been working as a UX Researcher for Amazon in Seattle.
Liz Juhnke
Informatics, 2010
In January 2022, Liz joined The Home Depot as one of 11 UX Principals and also joined the HCDE External Advisory Board. Her most recent awards include a Boeing Special Innovation award, an HCDE DEI mini grant, Boeing Associate Technical Fellowship and a patent. Liz is married and has one 2-year-old son.
Alex King
Informatics, 2010
Alex has been part of many different businesses at Google, including Ads, Google Fiber, and Google[x]. He is currently a Product Manager on the Google Wifi team, working to build a wireless router that people love.
Daniel Kore
Informatics, 2010
Daniel is a senior product manager at T-Mobile, leading the device financing analytics group. He previously opened up a data & analytics consulting firm serving clients with their end-to-end reporting needs. Prior to that, he worked at Accenture, providing consulting services to Microsoft, Costco, Starwood Hotels, Boeing, Starbucks, and other small firms before settling at the new T-Mobile (after the sprint merger). He has two beautiful daughters (Melat & Selah) with his wife (Sally).