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Xinyi Yang
MSIM, 2021
As of 2023, Xinyi was working as a big data engineer at AWS.
Wenpei Zhang
MSIM, 2021
As of 2023, Wenpei was working at an asset management firm in New York City.
Veronica Adair
MLIS, 2020
As of 2025, Veronica was the Student Engagement Librarian at BYU Idaho. They started this job in June of 2021 and also got married in November of 2021 and had their first child, a girl, in May of 2024.
Jose Alarcon Santos
Informatics, 2020
As of 2025, Jose was helping out their community.
Emily Bajet
MSIM, 2020
As of 2023, Emily was a senior technical program manager at IMDb. She helped launch the 'IMDb What to Watch' Fire TV app, which sorts through IMDb's 12 million shows and movies to help customers find what to watch (aka a streaming guide librarian). She also works on personalization features for IMDb's mobile apps, website and Fire TV app using machine learning / data science.
Aric Bishop
MLIS, 2020
As of 2026, Aric earned a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Leadership from Drake University, graduating in May 2026 and successfully defending his dissertation in August 2026. In 2024, Aric accepted a position at the West Des Moines Public Library as a Circulation Assistant at the West Des Moines Public Library.
Jonathan Cady
Informatics, 2020
Jon is working for Amazon as a software development engineer in Seattle.
Pierce Cave
Informatics, 2020
Pierce started in 2020 as a software development engineer at Amazon Web Services.
Charlotte Daugherty
MLIS Law, 2020
As of 2024, Charlotte was at the U.C. Berkeley Law Library.
Erika Enomoto
MSIM, 2020
Erika reports in 2021 that as a program manager at Microsoft Azure, she is a member of a high-performing data analyst team that delivers key business insights to support the varied information needs and use cases of multiple stakeholder groups.