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Cassie Walker
MLIS Law, 2013
Cassie is the assistant director for scholarly initiatives at the Underwood Law Library at Southern Methodist University.
Sarah Willadsen
MLIS, 2013
In 2023, Sarah was promoted to Lead Librarian of Adult Services at Prescott Public Library in Prescott, Arizona.
Miriam Wnuk
MLIS, 2013
In March 2022, Miriam was awarded the 2022 RUSA STARS Virginia Boucher Distinguished ILL Librarian award, presented by OCLC at ALA Annual in Washington, D.C. She received the award for her work as the chairperson of the Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing (NWILL) Conference. She has also been promoted to Librarian II at Vanderbilt University.
Phillip Wood
MSIM, 2013
As of 2022, Phillip was working as a Senior Product Manager at Google in the Austin office, working on finance & deal performance software.
Mason Wrolstad
MSIM, 2013
As of 2024, Mason worked at Plaid in April as a Data Engineer. Mason was working at a start-up after almost three years at Tableau and six years at Boeing before that.
Margaret Ansell
MLIS, 2012
In 2021, Margaret was awarded promotion and tenure at the University of Florida. Margaret is currently serving as the Associate Chair of the Gainesville Health Science Center Library at the rank of Associate University Librarian.
Shannon Becker
Informatics, 2012
As of 2020, Shannon works as a Scrum Master, recently becoming a Release Train Engineer at Safeco Insurance.
Bethany Black
MLIS, 2012
As of 2024, Bethany was in her third year as a teacher librarian at Glacier Middle School (Highline Public Schools).
Kawanna Bright
MLIS, 2012
Kawanna earned her Ph.D. in 2018 at the University of Denver in Research Methods & Statistics and is now an assistant professor at East Carolina University. In 2021, she and colleagues were awarded an IMLS grant for a project titled Identifying Opportunities for Retention of BIPOC Librarians Using Survival Analysis.
Freeda Brook
MLIS, 2012
Freeda is the Acquisitions and Resource Management Librarian at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Prior to this, she worked at Roosevelt University in Chicago at the Scholarly Communications Librarian and the Head of User Services. Freeda has also taught courses for Library Juice Academy and in the MLIS program at the iSchool.