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Catriona Buhayar
MLIS, 2008
Catriona published a comedic romance, "Mistakes Were Made," as her alter-ego Taylor Rush. A second novel, "Best Laid Plans," should be published by the end of the year!
Tessa Rose Campbell
MLIS, 2008
In April 2026, Tessa Rose began working as a curator at Setting Sun Circle (SSC), an Indigenous-led interpretive storytelling and art space in Bellingham, WA. She previously spent 13 years as a curator at the Hibulb Cultural Center on the Tulalip reservation before entering the Information School's iPhD program in 2020. She credits the iSchool's Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) as a key reason she accepted the new position, and continues her dissertation work alongside a graduate student advisory role with the UW Center for American Indian & Indigenous Studies Board for the next academic year.
Timothy Chen
Informatics, 2008
Timothy is a lead distributed systems engineer at Mesosphere, a startup in San Francisco, where he works on the datacenter operating system.
Mari Cheney
MLIS, 2008
Mari was promoted in 2018 to assistant director of research and instruction at Boley Law Library in the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.
Erin Conor
MLIS, 2008
Erin has recently begun work as the Head of the Music Library at the University of Washington and is thrilled to have returned to her alma mater. She previously held positions at the University of California, Irvine; and Reed College.
Kathleen DeLaurenti
MLIS, 2008
As of 2024, Kathleen published an Open Textbook about research, copyright, and publishing for professional musicians.
Rachel Elkington
MSIM, 2008
As of 2021, Rachel was the head of the Success Services Team across EMEA for Adobe Systems, living and working in Berlin, Germany.
Ann Glusker
MLIS, 2008
Ann left her position at the UW Health Sciences Library in 2019 to start as the Sociology, Demography, & Quantitative Research Librarian at UC Berkeley.
"I’m 10 years into librarianship, yet I am learning so much every day it feels like drinking from a fire hose. It’s been a big transition, and totally worth it for the adventure, whatever happens from here!"
Zhengyu Gui
MSIM, 2008
In 2022, Zhengyu started a new job with Roku and moved to San Jose, California.
Dustin Hodge
Informatics, 2008
In 2014, Dustin returned to UW! He works as a UX Interaction Designer at the UW Office of Research Information Services.