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Becky Ramsey Leporati
MLIS, 2016
Becky is in the second year of her fellowship with the University of Cincinnati as a Digital Literacy Fellow. She has been presenting at conferences, including LOEX and EduLearn in Barcelona, on eLearning issues such as accessibility and design.
Atinder Saini
Informatics, 2016
In 2021, Atinder reported being at OpenTable, where he has been building products since 2019. He gained hands-on experience as a Product Manager and Product/UX Designer over the past five years and says he is always open to help out and share more with others.
Mingxin Shi
MLIS, 2016
Mingxin is working as a taxonomist at Microsoft Bing.
Sonal Srivastava
MSIM, 2016
As of 2023, Sonal was working as a UX researcher with Amazon. Prior to this, she was at Instacart and Meta.
Emily Thompson
MLIS, 2016
In 2020, Emily was in her third year as the outreach and events manager at the UW's Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.
Caleb Thorsteinson
Informatics, 2016
In 2021, Caleb reported working as a software engineer, building real-time translation systems at Amazon.
Michael Wallenfels
MLIS, 2016
As of 2022, Michael was working as the Communications Manager for the Washington State Arts Agency. He is also the Public Records Officer for the agency, which is one the reasons he uses his MLIS on a daily basis. He reports: "I joined the agency as a Program Assistant and was promoted to my current role after six months. I have helped the agency launch a podcast and a new statewide program for veterans."
Emily Whitacre
MLIS, 2016
Emily recently was hired at GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO (formerly YBP Library Services) as a Cataloging Bibliographer.
Leigh Wilkinson
MLIS, 2016
Leigh recently celebrated a one-year anniversary as a children's librarian with the Brooklyn Public Library.
Vivyan Woods
Informatics, 2016
In her year after graduating from the iSchool, Vivyan became a software engineer at Cisco Systems. She also has a book being released with NineStar Press in January 2018. The book is set on the UW campus and surrounding area with scenes inspired by some of her experiences on campus.