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Ajay Pillay
MSIM, 2011
Ajay is a senior consultant with Deloitte Consulting's Digital practice. He focuses on helping clients leverage digital disruption to strengthen brands and drive revenue through effective digital marketing.
Kristi Powell
MLIS, 2011
Kristi is the Branch Supervisor at the Orangevale Branch Library in the Sacramento Public Library System; the branch has been in existence since 1912, and has had seven locations, but no permanent home.
James Rosenzweig
MLIS, 2011
As of 2025, James was aProfessor on the library faculty, and Education & Children's Studies Librarian, at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA. He also teaches as an adjunct in the social studies education program at EWU, and he works as the volunteer librarian at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Spokane, WA.
Elizabeth Russell
MLIS, 2011
In summer 2016, Elizabeth became Associate Archivist at Providence Archives (for Providence Health and Services).
Murray Sampson
MLIS, 2011
As of 2024, Murray was the branch librarian for the Winthrop Branch of North Central Washington Libraries. He was featured in the Methow Valley News.
Joel Shapiro
Informatics, 2011
Joel is guiding technical architecture in Atlassian's marketing and sales technology groups. He also founded a lightweight automation and robotics company.
Oktavianus Sinaga
MSIM, 2011
As of 2023, Oktavianus was a senior business analyst at the Department of Digital Innovation Development in the Central Bank of Indonesia.
Andrew Smirnov
Informatics, 2011
Andrew is currently a Technical Solutions Engineer at Catchpoint, a web performance analytics startup based out of New York.
Emily Sparling
Museology, 2011
As of 2023, Emily was starting to study at the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis, MN. She is a scholar in the law school’s Robina Public Interest Scholars Program.
Osman Surkatty
Informatics, 2011
As of 2013, Osman was a security engineer for Amazon Web Services, working on their Elastic Cloud Computing product.