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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.
Jessica Anderson
MLIS, 2010
Jessica Anderson has been working as a librarian at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens' Miller Library. At the library, she answers horticulture and gardening reference questions, maintains the serials collections, works with volunteers, and orders the supplies for the library. In spring 2015, she completed the Master Gardener training program at the Center for Urban Horticulture and was hired later in the fall. Jessica very much enjoys her work at the largest horticulture library in the Pacific Northwest!
Kayhan Atesci
MSIM, 2010
Kayhan works as a Senior UX Designer at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA. An app Kayhan led the design of, SAP Scouting, was a finalist and People's Choice Award at the Interaction '14 Awards hosted by Interaction Design Association. SAP Scouting is a web application built for NFL teams to help scout players from the NCAA and within NFL in new ways.
Audrey Barbakoff
MLIS, 2010
As of 2024, Audrey's debut picture book, THE SCHLEMIEL KIDS SAVE THE MOON, was published by The Collective Book Studio in April 2024. Kirkus Reviews called it "an enjoyable, rollicking read". Foreword Reviews deemed it "a multicultural winner" and selected it as a Pick of the Day.
Akshay Bhagwatwar
MSIM, 2010
Akshay was promoted in 2019 to senior research scientist at Amazon Worldwide Operations.
Naomi Bishop
MLIS, 2010
Naomi is now a science and engineering teaching, learning, and research services librarian at Northern Arizona University.
Gabriel Chrisman
MLIS, 2010
In 2022, Gabriel was hired as the Director of the Gibson Memorial Library in Creston, Iowa.