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JD Gonzalez

Informatics, 2015

As of 2024 JD has been working as a senior software engineer at Costco. He has quickly gained leadership within the IT organization and was recently featured in Costco's National Hispanic Heritage Month spotlight. He reports, "Being able to represent his heritage in his workplace and serve as a role model for others has been incredibly rewarding."

 

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Kimberly Gorman

MLIS, 2015

As a participant in the National Archives and Records Administration's Recent Graduates Program, Kimberly works as an Archives Technician at the National Archives at Riverside (CA).

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Jana Greenslit

Museology, 2015

As of 2023, Jana was the director of program assessment at iMentor.

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Rebecca Greer

MLIS, 2015

Rebecca recently accepted a position at University of California, Santa Barbara, as the Library Instruction Program Coordinator.

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Fei Guo

MSIM, 2015

In 2022, Fei moved from Finance to Experiences + Devices (Office, Exchange, Surface) at Microsoft and was promoted to Senior Product Manager.

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Christine Hill

Informatics, 2015

Christine is working as a UX designer at Amazon, developing internal tooling within Alexa. As a bonus she's written some jokes that you can hear. Just say, "Alexa, tell me a dungeons and dragons joke" to hear some of them.

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Twanna Hodge

MLIS, 2015

In February 2020, Twanna became the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Librarian at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She has also published an article on cultural humility in librarianship: Hodge, T. (2019). Integrating cultural humility into public services librarianship. International Information & Library Review, 51(3), 268-274.

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Sara Hoover

MLIS, 2015

Sara is the metadata and scholarly publishing librarian at the George Washington University Health Sciences Library.

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Jessica Jones

MLIS, 2015

As of 2021, Jessica had recently started a new position as the reference archivist at the Puget Sound Regional Branch of the Washington State Archives. 

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Elliot Keder

Informatics, 2015

As of 2025, after a decade in tech, Elliot exited the corporate world this spring and is taking a planned career break. He is currently volunteering for Washington Trails Association (WTA) building trails and backpacking around the PNW. Happy hiking!

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Holly Samayoa and Sherry Vazhayil

2 MLIS students awarded ALA Spectrum Scholarships

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
University of Washington Master of Library and Information Science students Holly Samayoa and Sherry Vazhayil are among those awarded 2026-27 ALA Spectrum Scholarships, announced recently by the American Library Association.​Samayoa...
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Curiosity, frustration and antipathy: How kids play with AI toys

Friday, September 4, 2026
Claims of “smart” toys go back decades. See Chatty Cathy and Furby. But generative artificial intelligence is increasing the capabilities of interactive toys. The company Curio, for instance, markets itself as a “magical workshop...
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