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Fan Yang
Informatics, 2017
Fan is working as a software engineer at Nordstrom.
Janelle Youngblood
MLIS, 2017
As of early 2023, Janelle was working as the E-Resources and Reference Librarian in the Government Information and Library Services division of the State Library of Oregon.
John Yun
Informatics, 2017
John is working as a program manager at Amazon for the University Operations Interviewing Program.
Jessie Zhang
Informatics, 2017
In 2021, Jessie reported being a student in the MS in Human Centered Design & Engineering program at the University of Washington.
Allison Amaral
Informatics, 2016
As of February 2020, Allison was working at Microsoft as a program manager on its Identity platform.
Simran Bhatia
Informatics, 2016
In 2022, Simran transitioned to a new job as a Data Scientist at Apple. She was moving to San Francisco.
Laura Blazyk
MLIS, 2016
As of 2024, Laura was working as an Adult & Teen Services Librarian at the Queen Anne Branch of The Seattle Public Library.
Dianne Bohach
MLIS, 2016
Dianne is working as a teacher librarian, K-12, at the Jefferson County Open School in Lakewood, Colorado.
Frank Branch
MLIS, 2016
Frank had an article on ontology in transmedia fiction published in JASIST, along with fellow MLIS graduates Jolene Kennah, Theresa Aries, and Rebekah Phillips. Frank and Rebekah have been asked to write the chapter on ontology for the Routledge guide to transmedia studies.
Geoff Brown
MLIS, 2016
Geoff has been promoted from library Specialist to full librarian status. He is working as Information Services Librarian/El Centro Library Coordinator/Instructor at a small branch library for North Eastern Illinois University in a historically Latinx neighborhood in Chicago. He supervises and manages graduate assistants, collects for a popular reading collection, serves as a subject specialist liaison for Geography and Environmental Studies and the university's Social Work program. He also collects for those programs as well as Environmental Studies and Computer Sciences. In addition, he is social media coordinator and teaches about 60 library instruction sessions a year.