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Jennifer Bisson
MLIS, 2002
As of 2025, Jennifer was working as a teen services librarian at the Greenwood Branch of the Seattle Public Library. She also was volunteering with the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project to create social services information pathways for the clients, lawyers and social workers within the youth division.
Her step-son who resides in Germany recently was married and in the summer will be going to Berlin to the wedding party. On her weekends off, she often takes friends out to her place on Harstine Island. She also got an electric bike this year for commuting on days when the Seattle rain isn't too much.
Laura Dushkes
MLIS, 2002
Laura serves on the Library Council of Washington, representing special libraries.
Ada Emmett
MLIS, 2002
Ada has been working for the University of Kansas (KU) since 2002, becoming tenured in 2008 and and moving into her dream job at KU in 2009, leading the scholarly communications program. In 2013, she became head of the (newly named) David Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright.
She publishes and presents on scholarly communication and open access and advocates for open access on the national level. Ada has been a presenter for the ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow and currently serves on the ARL's Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Steering Committee.
Layne Foit
MLIS, 2002
Layne is working as a Principal User Experience Designer at REI (Recreational Equipment Inc.).
Joe Goldberg
Informatics, 2002
Joe started a job at a Seattle-based startup called Convoy, which is a freight logistics company. He's an engineering manager on a team that's building back-end services to help import shipping data quickly and accurately.
Catherine Haras
MLIS, 2002
Catherine Haras is senior director of the Center for Effective Teaching and Learning at California State University, and serves as a Distinguished Teaching & Learning Adviser with the American Council on Education (ACE) to research benchmarks for excellent and scalable faculty development. This work aligns with ACE’s larger student success agenda, of which effective teaching is a critical component.
Greg Hatch
MLIS, 2002
In 2015, Greg was appointed to head the J. Willard Marriott Library's new Creativity & Innovation Services department, which supports University of Utah students, staff, and faculty in their interdisciplinary research and productivity, with an emphasis on arts and design, multimedia production, 3D and prototyping technologies, multimodal communication, and experiential learning. In July 2016, after 13 years on the faculty, he was promoted to the highest rank, Full Librarian.
Katrina Henderson
MLIS, 2002
Katrina was hired as the Youth Services Librarian for Chatham County Public Libraries in Chatham County, NC. She started her new position in July 2017.
Takahiro Hisada
Informatics, 2002
Takahiro has been working for Google for the past 2.5 years, and relocated to the company's Bay Area headquarters in 2015.
Ariel Johnson
MLIS, 2002
Ariel just graduated Capella University in 2015 with a PhD in Education, specializing in Curriculum and Instruction. Before earning her doctorate, she was the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society's Cataloging Librarian at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) Library.