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Reese (Coffin) Evenson
MLIS, 2006
In 2013, Reese began work as the Corporate Records Administrator for Johns Manville in Denver, CO. She also has been accepted to sit for the Certified Records Manager exam administered by the Institute of Certified Records Managers.
Mary Hansen
MLIS, 2006
In 2026, Mary expected to publish her second book in a series about a traveling archivist. She reports: "I combine my love of finding archival resources for people and my passion for storytelling in my novels and newsletter. The comments I get most from readers at book events and book clubs is how much they learned about archives and how important they are to collect and preserve. It is the best outreach I have ever done."
Zerrin Hejazi
MSIM, 2006
Zerrin launched a new business called CleanUV to provide everyone a safe and clean environment by using UV sanitization, the same process used for decades to sterilize environments. Mass transit, commercial and personal vehicles, schools and hospitals are all in the scope of this business.
Chris Iremonger
Informatics, 2006
In 2015, Chris joined Google (again) in a leadership role in Android. He is currently a Technical Program Manager working on developer tools used to create mobile Apps.
From 2013 to 2015, Chris was a director of customer success at a growing mobile marketing startup in the Palo Alto, California. His team focused on technical integrations, marketing best practices, and a great customer journey.
From 2006 to 2009, Chris managed a number of teams at Google in technical sales focused on online, SMB, and educational sales. From 2009-2013, he lead operations teams focused on technical integrations and deployments for Google Apps and Chrome OS. At Google he was on the launch team for Google Apps, Chrome OS, and a number of enterprise focused technologies.
Leilani Johnson
MLIS, 2006
Leilani was promoted in 2014 to Senior Library Program Manager for the Microsoft Library. She manages the global marketing efforts for the Library, utilizing digital, social, and print channels. She also manages contracts, help and guidance features, content strategy, and serves as the resident expert on identity and access management for third party electronic resources utilizing federated single sign-on identity technologies.
In her spare time she volunteers for a number of non-profit organizations, travels, and works on numerous creative writing and art projects.
Benjamin Johnson
MLIS, 2006
Benjamin works as a Lead Metadata Librarian at ProQuest.
Pamela Kilborn-Miller
MSIM, 2006
In 2023, Pamela was collaborating with national partners on a new nonpartisan iteration of the campaign for the 2024 election. She invites you to connect on LinkedIn.
In the 2004-06 Executive MSIM program, Pamela researched global knowledge sharing strategies via the United Nations to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for her 2006 Capstone project. After graduation, her U.N. research led to co-founding a global movement and managing a TED Prize-winning project that had a measurable positive impact.
In 2017, Pamela took Akhtar Badshah's "Accelerating Social Transformation" (AST) leadership certificate program at the UW, which led to co-founding a national, nonpartisan campaign to combat disinformation for the 2020 and 2022 elections: How do you know if you can trust the news? What are the 8 Trust Indicators? This campaign also had a measurable positive impact.
Sarah Lester
MLIS, 2006
After 10 years at Stanford University, in July 2018, Sarah accepted a new position at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. In her new role, she serves as librarian for the College of Engineering.
Kenny Lu
MSIM, 2006
In 2014, Kenny received his MBA from the UW Foster School of Business. He currently works for Avvo as a DevOps Engineer.
Joe Marquez
MLIS, 2006
As of 2021, Joe was working as a UX researcher at Zipline.