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Kathy Weigert
MLIS, 2010
Kathy is the children's department manager at West Bank Regional Library in Harvey, Louisiana.
Abraham Wenning
MLIS, 2010
Abe left the consulting world in 2016 and is now a Senior UX Designer at Microsoft.
Sara White
MLIS, 2010
As of 2024, Sara became a Youth Services Librarian serving ages 0-18 at the Olympia Timberland Library, where she worked for nearly 11 years. In 2021, she became the Youth Services Consultant at the Washington State Library, where she supports folks around the state who serve youth in public, tribal, and school libraries.
Jana Lu Williams
MLIS, 2010
Jana Lu Williams completed her three-year review process to attain full tenure as faculty librarian at Walla Walla Community College. In addition to serving on its curriculum and outcomes assessment committees, she recently started mentoring honors students in their capstone projects. She is thoroughly enjoying her new career as an instructional librarian.
Mesa Yee
Informatics, 2010
In January 2015 Mesa moved to Los Angeles to take a position as Supervisor of Digital Ad Operations at OMD Entertainment, a digital media agency that works on all the Disney titles including Marvel, Dreamworks, and Lucasfilm. She is in charge of all the technical operations and deployment of client advertising campaigns.
Jin Ahn
MSIM, 2009
As of 2024, Jin was working as a VP at an insuretech company in Korea. Jin reports: "Since I learned lots of useful knowledge from MSIM, I stepped up every single company of different industry (SME, startup, major etc) by mixing academic & practical asset."
Adam Argo
Informatics, 2009
In 2014 Adam started at zulily as a Senior Software Engineer on the Personalization team, working at the intersection between machine learning and high-performance, low-latency software engineering.
David Austin
MLIS, 2009
David recently started work as a part-time adult services librarian at the Bellevue Library. He continues to do some woodworking and other maker activities on the side.
Ray Barnhart
Informatics, 2009
Since 2011, Ray has worked as a web developer at POSSIBLE.
Kristina Dahlberg
Informatics, 2009
In 2014, Kristina was promoted to Technical Accounting Manager at Atlassian, a pre-IPO software company in San Francisco. The company is known for JIRA, Confluence, HipChat, Bitbucket, and more. She focuses primarily on software revenue recognition, and her technical background (and double major in accounting) is extremely helpful as she works with the company to understand revenue streams, execute new contracts and drive changes to their systems.