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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.
Nathan Freier
PhD, 2007
Nathan has been at Microsoft since 2010. He's worked on a number of projects, most recently a new Office presentation app, Sway. The preview version is free and available at http://sway.com.
Sue Gemmell
MSIM, 2007
Sue is building and supporting a Yammer network of communities for UNICEF.org, to help 15,000 colleagues in 190 countries promote the rights and well-being of children. Yammer is a freemium enterprise social networking service used for private communication within organizations.
In addition to education, medical, sanitation, operations and hundreds of other groups, Sue recently started a community for UNICEF's professional drivers. The group now has 700+ members in 56 countries and continues to grow.
As a consultant, she works flexible hours at home in Portland and visit New York for face-to-face meetings. I have many fond memories of MSIM and my cohort.
Ivy Hammond
MLIS, 2007
Ivy is working as adjunct faculty for Brigham Young University-Idaho. She is teaching an introduction Library Research Skills course.
Laura Home-Popp
MLIS, 2007
Laura became the director of Greenlease Library in 2021.
Laura Horne-Popp
MLIS, 2007
Laura became Assistant Dean of Library Services in the James C. Kirkpatrick Library at the University of Central Missouri in July 2016.
Benjamin Jackson
MSIM, 2007
In 2011, Ben joined Juniper Networks in Sunnyvale, CA, as Vice President of Information Experience. Ben leads a multi-disciplined information organization with company-wide accountability for technical documentation, localization, content authoring and publishing tool development (PM/Dev/Test) and engineering training.