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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.
Luis Centurion
MSIM, 2016
As of July 2016, Luis was working as a project manager at Adobe Systems Inc.
Rachel Ivy Clarke
PhD, 2016
As of 2022, Rachel Ivy Clarke had been awarded tenure and was promoted to associate professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. Her research focuses on the application of design theories and methods to facilitate the systematic, purposeful design of library services and education.
Chelsea Cooper
MLIS, 2016
Chelsea is working for Sno-Isle Libraries. In February 2017, she helped to open the Mariner Library in south Everett. Previously this community had only been served by Sno-Isle's Library on Wheels. Chelsea says, "It has been a great experience opening a brand new, store-front location. I have been using my knowledge and skills gained from the MLIS program to fully serve the Mariner community!"
Tiffany Coulson
MLIS, 2016
As of 2025, Tiffany was working as an embedded research librarian and curriculum designer for Altera - an educational non-profit in eastern Washington. She has written a series of articles for School Library Journal on environmental topics supporting positive climate mental health for youth. She wrote a teacher's resource guide for Penguin Random House called "Climate Journeys". This year she was accepted by the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism as a Flutie Fellow - a program that elevates individual career goals and connects the autism community. She will be participating as an advocate for more inclusive conference and presentation spaces for autistic professionals. She is honored to have been accepted as a member of the International Advisory Council at the Freire Institute, where she will engage with others in guiding the strategy, programming and outreach of the Institute in supporting its mission to promote inclusive, critical, and community-based education.
Linda Garcia
MLIS, 2016
In June 2018, Linda accepted a position as an access services librarian at Montana State University.
Erin Gordenier
MLIS, 2016
Erin started a new job as Outreach Librarian and Volunteer Coordinator at the Siuslaw Public Library in Florence, Oregon.