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Regina Kays
MLIS, 2002
In 2012, Jeannie was appointed as the library director of the Palm Springs Library Center. She had worked for Library Services and Systems, Inc. for the previous 10 years, first as a branch manager of the Cathedral City Library, then as the city librarian for the Palm Desert Library. Jeannie lives in Coachella Valley with her husband, Mike, and is an avid reader and technology buff.
Emily Keller
MLIS, 2002
Emily is the Political Science and Public Policy Librarian at University of Washington Libraries, where she supports a number of social science programs through outreach, instruction, reference and collection development. She is also actively involved in the Washington Library Association, and will be traveling to Myanmar this spring to work with university librarians on information literacy and subject librarianship in public policy.
Jonell Lee
MLIS, 2002
Jonell and her husband Christopher, also a UW alumnus, welcomed Ava Lee into their family in July 2012.
Monica McQueen
MLIS, 2002
Monica has been Head PYP Librarian at the International School of Geneva in Switzerland since 2012, promoting reading, information and technology skills and experimenting with gamifying the library program.
Alexis Meyners
MLIS, 2002
As of 2020, Alexis is working as an independent contractor in online marketing in Spain and has lived there since 2003
Jeanette Mills
MLIS, 2002
Jeanette has been staff in the UW School of Art + Art History + Design for over 26 years. After more than two decades managing image collections for teaching (first 35mm slides then digital images), her primary focus became website content management for the School in 2014. This is an extension of her many years as the School's news and events writer. She also initiated a social media presence for the School in 2009, and she still manages their Twitter account. In 2016, Jeanette helped the School launch a new website in partnership with the College of Arts & Sciences and its Drupal-based Department Web Framework.
Connie Urquhart
MLIS, 2002
Connie is the library director at Camas Public Library in Camas, Washington.
Andy Bates
MLIS, 2001
Andy started working for Seattle Public Library, in 2001, serving as a branch manager for several branches, primarily the Lake City Branch. When that position was eliminated in the budget cuts of 2011, Andy was promoted to Regional Manager, managing four branches. However, Andy missed directly serving the public, so in 2013 transitioned to a new job within SPL, and now happily works as the supervising librarian for the Fremont Branch.
Christopher Kerns
MLIS, 2001
Christopher is the Library Systems Manager for the Boeing Company's corporate library.
Lisa Sanders
MLIS, 2001
Lisa is a librarian of the newly founded Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum opening in January 2016.