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Andrea Zager
MLIS, 2018
Andrea is working as a K-5 school library media specialist in the Northshore School District.
Maxwell Zhou
Informatics, 2018
After graduation, Maxwell started at Visa as a penetration tester for mobile and IoT platforms. After a year, Maxwell moved to a cybersecurity firm as a senior cybersecurity consultant and now serves a variety of large organizations in the space.
Kelsey Aiello
Informatics, 2017
Kelsey started working as a UX Designer at Costco in 2023 after four years at Epic Systems.
Nicola Andrews
MLIS, 2017
Nicola began working as an NCSU Libraries Fellow at North Carolina State University. As a fellow, she will be providing reference and instruction services as part of the Learning Spaces & Services department, and also working on an initiative to research and increase diversity within academic libraries. Nicola has also been awarded a DLF HBCU Fellowship by the Digital Library Federation.
Rohan Aras
Informatics, 2017
As of 2023, Rohan had finished his doctorate as part of Stanford's Urban Informatics Lab and moved to Washington, D.C., to work as a data scientist at the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory. His dissertation modeled the constraining influence of barriers in the urban street network on pedestrians and bicyclists.
Nicole Arnold
MLIS, 2017
Nicole accepted a job offer from the University of California, Irvine, where she is the Research Librarian for Student Success and Instruction. She also serves as a liaison to the School of Education.
Dylan Babbs
Informatics, 2017
As of 2021, Dylan was working as a product designer at Uber.
Drew Before
Informatics, 2017
As of 2024, Drew was promoted to Principal Frontend Engineer at Nintendo.
Alexander Bell-Towne
Informatics, 2017
Alexander is working as a software engineer at Square Inc. in New York City. He moved to New York in 2019 after spending a year working in Square's San Francisco office. His original employer, Weebly, was acquired by Square in May 2018.
Sam Bender
Informatics, 2017
Sam started a fitness business based on a mobile app that he built and designed. As of 2022, the company had received another round of funding and was featured in Geekwire: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/qa-with-former-nfl-star-doug-baldwin-about-his-new-role-as-ceo-of-a-seattle-healthcare-startup/