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Anish Abraham
MSIM, 2011
As of 2023, Anish was working as a Privacy Compliance Program Manager at the University of Washington, for the Compliance Risk Services department, overseeing the coordination, consultation and oversight of patient information protection requirements for the UW Health Care Components Group (HCCG) not included in the UW Medicine-affiliated covered entity.
Talea Anderson
MLIS, 2011
alea has worked for Central Washington University Libraries since 2011. In 2014, Talea became the Scholarly Communications and Metadata Librarian, and is responsible for managing Central Washington University's institutional repository, ScholarWorks.
Hamed Barahimi
Informatics, 2011
After graduating in 2011, Hamed worked briefly as a technology consultant at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, California. He transitioned to a full-time role at the hospital in 2013 and, as of 2021, was working there as the IT Director for Inpatient Systems & Services at the hospital. He got his master's from the UW in Health Informatics and Health Information Management in 2017 and has since volunteered as a mentor and admissions committee member for the program.
Lillian Dabney
MLIS, 2011
Lillian works as a librarian in the LIP program at Seattle Public Library.
Maggie Dull
MLIS, 2011
As of 2024, Maggie was promoted to Assistant Dean, Scholarly Resources & Curation at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries. She previously served as RCL's Director, Metadata Strategies and Interim Director, Digital Initiatives.
Kara Fong
Informatics, 2011
Kara joined Microsoft after graduation as a Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Program Manager, working with partners such as Fujitsu and Lenovo to ship PCs, tablets and servers running the latest version of Windows. After a year and a half, she moved to Microsoft's Apple Productivity Experiences team as a Program Manager, shipping Office for Mac, iPad and iPhone. Kara recently moved to the Bay Area to work at Facebook as a Design Program Manager on their Interfaces and Tools team.
Gauravee Gandhi
MSIM, 2011
Gauravee works as an Integration Engineer at Intel, acting as a liaison between stakeholders, users, and development teams.
Guaravee Gandhi
MSIM, 2011
Guaravee is working as a technical program manager with the AWS Customer Acquisition team at Amazon.
Deborah Hamilton
MLIS, 2011
As of 2020, Deborah is the Strategic Service Librarian - Law Collection for Pikes Peak Library District in Colorado Springs. She also serves as chair of the Board of Directors for the Justice Center, a nonprofit providing free and low cost legal services. Deborah recently finished her manuscript for "Helping Library Users with Legal Questions: Practical Advice for Research, Programming, and Outreach" it will be published in March 2021 by Libraries Unlimited: https://products.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A6130P
Emily Hayes
MSIM, 2011
Emily was promoted to manager at Moss Adams LLP in July 2019, within the Business Consulting Services group. She also compiled, edited and laid out the fifth volume of "Reflections on Risk" (via Annie Searle).