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Stephanie Zero
MLIS, 2007
In 2022, Stephanie transitioned from being a KCLS Teen Services Librarian at Redmond Library to being a KCLS Operations Manager at Crossroads Library. She was the also incoming Chair of the CAYAS section of WLA (Children and Young Adult Services).
Stephen Coker
MLIS, 2006
As of 2026, Stephen is serving as a Teacher Librarian and teaching CTE Digital Academy and Social Studies courses at North Thurston High School in Olympia, WA. In October 2015, he was honored as Washington State Teacher Librarian of the Year by the Washington Library Media Association at its annual conference in Yakima, Washington.
Scott Daniels
MLIS, 2006
Scott is celebrating his 10-year anniversary at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library. He is now Reference Services Manager.
Christopher Erdmann
MLIS, 2006
In 2026, Christopher joined Frontiers Media SA (Switzerland) as their Head of Open Science and External Affairs, US.
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
As of 2026, Mary has published the second book in her Della Waters Archival Mystery series, Blood in the Archives, a prequel novella to The Traveling Archivist. She has also released a zine on conducting archival research and is currently recording audiobook versions of her novels. She reports: "The most frequent feedback I get from readers is that first they didn't know how important archives were, and second, they didn't know that they could access them. It really is the best and most unexpected 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.