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Rishi Talwar
Informatics, 2011
Rishi is the co-founder of Bottega8, a software consulting company.
Joel Turner
MLIS, 2011
Joel is working as a technical adviser for media and information literacy at IREX, a global development non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. He is part of a team that is testing a citizen media literacy skills-building approach called Learn to Discern. The team first tested Learn to Discern in Ukraine, training librarians in citizen media literacy concepts. Joel is currently testing adaptations of Learn to Discern in Indonesia (online-only messaging) and in Arizona (training rural and tribal librarians).
Jeroen van den Eijkhof
MSIM, 2011
Jeroen has worked with Deloitte Digital in Seattle as a Senior User Experience Architect since 2013.
Andrew Vitollo
Informatics, 2011
In 2021, Andrew reported working on a useable and secure solution to solve the problems associated with using passwords on the internet: "I am a Senior Product Manager at Trusona, and leading 12 engineers on product strategy around our platform, which has a component of mobile, front end, back end and partner with security and UX to delight our customers. We offer both a mobile app and browser native solution to authentication that doesn't require the use of passwords and instead uses your phones built-in security capabilities. I love the job and company and am definitely using my Informatics background as well as a decade of experience working with customers in various capacities."
Cathy (Zegelin) Wagner
MLIS, 2011
In October 2016, Cathy began working as Senior Cooperative & Instructional Programs Instructor at the Library of Congress.
Joshua Walker
MLIS, 2011
In 2013, Joshua began working as a Senior User Experience Designer at LiveAreaLabs, a digital retail agency.
Ephrem Yemru
Informatics, 2011
After almost five years in the consulting industry, Ephrem recently joined Nordstrom Inc. as an Information Security Senior Engineer. Within information security practice, Ephrem specifically focuses on Identity and Access Management.
Trupti Deo
MSIM, 2010
After graduation, Trupti worked as a Solution Manager at Microsoft from 2010 to 2014.
Christopher Lam
Informatics, 2010
Christopher is a senior product designer at Pathstream, which is leading technology companies to build branded digital skills career programs delivered through college and university partnerships. Christopher has designed at award-winning companies such as GoodRx, Clover Health, TaskRabbit, Mozilla and Amazon. He is also hip-hop dancer and breakdancer for Ultimate Alliance Dance Company.
He has worked on projects at GoodRx that have been featured on news sources like the New York Times, Good Morning America, The Motley Fool, and ABC News.
His work has had impact such as winning a Webby for Best Health Website 2018 for Iodine.com; designing and building systems, processes, and products to scale as one of the first designers at Clover Health; helping TaskRabbit pivot and redesign their product; designing phone products at Mozilla; and working on Amazon products such as Amazon Prime Gifting, Amazon Cloud Player for Samsung Devices and Amazon Cloud Player for mobile at Amazon.
Kristina J. Alayan
MLIS Law, 2010
In 2021, Kristina was appointed Associate Dean for Library & Technology and Associate Law School Professor at the University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law. Before that, she was the Law Library Director & Assistant Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law. She has also worked in several positions on the law library management team and as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Her career began at Duke Law as the Foreign and International Law Librarian & Lecturing Fellow.