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Mandy Gonnsen
MLIS, 2012
In 2012, Mandy began work as the Youth Services Librarian at the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library. Out of a staff of 17 people at the WTBBL, 5 are iSchool alumni, including manager Danielle Miller (MLIS 2003).
Jenny Hannibal
MLIS, 2012
Jenny is a youth/teen librarian in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where she leads hands-on preschool programs, messy tween art projects, and other fun library activities. She even dressed up as Elsa for the library's Frozen party.
Melody Hauf-Belden
MLIS, 2012
Melody moved into a position that aligned with her love for archives and academic librarianship after a few years of Program Management at Microsoft. In 2016, she started working for the Principia College as its archivist and special collections librarian, with faculty standing.
She is a lone-arranger with a couple of student workers and is focused on moving through the immense backlog, digitizing the archives and collections, creating exhibits, and inspiring students and faculty to use the archives.
Adrianna Ibrahim
MLIS, 2012
After running her own dog daycare business for several years, Adrianna began working at King County Library System in 2014. She currently works in the Bellevue region as a teen services librarian.
Veronica Ivaniukovich
Informatics, 2012
Veronica is a user experience (UX) designer at PitchBook Data, Inc. She is responsible for the design and usability of the company’s venture capital and private equity database application. She is “creating high-fidelity interface designs, prototyping and working to meet user needs.”
Jonathan King
MLIS, 2012
In 2013, Jonathan began work as an Archivist I for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in Austin, TX.
Dong Lee
Informatics, 2012
Dong works at the U.S. Department of State as a foreign service specialist (information management specialist), assigned to Washington, D.C., after an overseas assignment in Russia.
Marcus Lindbloom
MLIS, 2012
Marcus was hired in 2014 as an Adult Services Librarian at the central branch of Douglas County Library System in Roseburg, Oregon. He is responsible for nonfiction collection development, reference, and programming.
Nichole Maiman Waterman
MLIS, 2012
As of 2024, Nichole was the Student and Academic Services Operations and Advising Specialist with the Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health Program in the UW School of Public Health. Some of her main responsibilities include managing the program's annual graduate admissions process, organizing and maintaining graduate and undergraduate student data, coordinating quarterly time schedule planning and academic student employee hiring, and advising prospective and current graduate students.
Christopher Mathews
Informatics, 2012
As of 2024. Christopher joined Lexion as the Head of Product where they raised a Series B round in 2023.