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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
As of 2025, Margaret was serving as Interim Chair for the University of Florida Health Science Center Library over the summer. In 2021, Margaret was awarded promotion and tenure at the University of Florida.
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).
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.
Carl Burnett
MLIS, 2012
Carl works as an Ontology Engineer at Healthwise, a nonprofit producer of consumer health information, located in Boise.