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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.
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.