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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.
Claire Davies
MLIS, 2010
Claire has earned a Doctor of Education from University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. Her dissertation, entitled “Shelf Awareness: Public Librarians and Diverse Collections," aimed to bring to life how the values and beliefs of librarians influence collections. It was nominated for a Dissertation of Distinction award.
Lee Deitesfeld
MLIS, 2010
Lee works as a Senior Metadata Librarian at ProQuest.
Braxton Ehle
Informatics, 2010
As of May 2026, Braxton began working as a Staff Security Engineer at Stripe after five years securing cloud services at Apple. Braxton partners with product teams across Stripe to identify and address risks to user safety.
Melody Sky Eisler
MLIS, 2010
Melody was included in a New York Times feature in October 2018. The newspaper asked 12 authors to write about the libraries they love, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx wrote about her Port Townsend Carnegie Library and what brought her into librarianship.
Melody began work at the Port Townsend, Washington, library in 2015. She was previously the manager of the Silverdale branch of Kitsap Regional Library, and had also served as chair of the Kitsap County Arts Board.
Mandy Fonville
MLIS, 2010
Mandy uses her background in healthcare to work as a User Research Engineer for a medical device company.
Kylie Fullmer
MLIS, 2010
After serving as the director of the East Adams Library District based out of Ritzville, Washington, for 10 years, Kylie started in 2020 as the new director of the Whitman County Rural Library District based out of Colfax, Washington. Its Malden branch burned to the ground in the Babb Road Fire, the evening before her first day.
"It's been a wild first week of work, to say the least!"
Melissa Gustafson
MLIS, 2010
As of fall 2025, Melissa was promoted to University Librarian at Indiana State University.
Rachel Hungerford
MSIM, 2010
Since January 2015, Rachel has been working as a UX Researcher for Amazon in Seattle.