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Jessica Shaykett
MLIS, 2008
Jessica recently took a job as a Patron Experience Supervisor with Hennepin County Library in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Sonja Sutherland
MLIS, 2008
As of 2024, Sonja was serving as the Teen Services Librarian with Sonoma County Library.
Destinee Sutton
MLIS, 2008
Destinee works as a children's librarian at the Burien branch of the King County Library System. She was elected to serve on the 2016 Newbery Award Selection Committee.
Ngoc-Yen Tran
MLIS, 2008
As of December 2021, Ngoc-Yen Tran is the Coordinator for Teaching and Learning at Seattle University.
John Wulff
Informatics, 2008
John is the Senior Vice President of Software Development at a financial services company. His team builds financial advisory tools for financial planners and their clients.
Leela Yellesetty
MLIS, 2008
Leela works as the Manager for Records & Data Protection at Casey Family Programs.
Michelle Young
MLIS, 2008
As of 2025, Michelle was recognized as 2024 Librarian of the Year by the Friends of the Library of Hawai'i.
Deborah Bancroft
MLIS, 2007
Deborah is a Reference Librarian at Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen, WA.
Amy Donahue
MLIS, 2007
Amy will graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Master of Genetic Counseling Studies program in May 2018, and will then start working at the Medical College of Wisconsin as a genetic counselor. Her position will combine clinical work with eventual integration into the laboratory, as her information science/bioinformatics background has given her a useful and unique skill set! She's also presenting a poster at the Medical Library Association's 2018 Annual Conference in Atlanta in May, entitled "Another Genome Project: Medical Library Services for Genetic Counselors and Genetic Counseling Students."
Sarah Evans
MLIS, 2007
Starting in fall 2019, Sarah is an Assistant Professor of Youth Librarianship at the University of North Texas, College of Information, Department of Information Science.