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Justin Otto

MLIS, 2003

Justin is serving as the interim dean of libraries at Eastern Washington University.

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Laura Simeon

MLIS, 2003

Laura is the Librarian & Diversity Coordinator at a K-8 independent school in Bellevue, Washington, and a guest blogger for Lee & Low Books. She is currently serving on the 2017 jury for the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature, and was recently elected to the Coretta Scot King Book Award Jury for 2019-20.

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John Vosmek

MLIS, 2003

John is the manager of Resource Services at Hogan Lovells US LLP, a global law firm, where he oversees all digital and print collection management, cataloging, and serials processing for its Washington, D.C. headquarters and its 18 offices in the Americas. He also works on taxonomy development and other projects for the firm's intranet.  He lives inside the Beltway in Hyattsville, Maryland, with his wife, Maureen, and kids, Mason and Mimi.

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Sarah Wakefield

MLIS, 2003

Sarah is working as the Primary Years Program librarian at the International School of Phnom Penh in Cambodia.

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Loree Hyde

MLIS, 2002

After many years with Oregon Health & Science University Library, Loree has recently moved to Kaiser Permanente as the manager of library services in Oregon.  Her work as the Nursing Liaison at OHSU, as well as her involvement with Nursing at KP, helped to inform her contributions to a recently published book, titled "The Intersection: Where Evidence Based Nursing and Information Literacy Meet," edited by Sue Phelps, Julie Planchon Wolf and Loree Hyde, and published by Elsevier.  The book describes how the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework and Information literacy Competency Standards for Nursing (also written by Phelps, Planchon Wolf and Hyde) mesh with nursing education and professional standards, thus speaking to the information needs of nurses, nurse educators, and librarians who support nursing programs.

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Jenny Abdo

Informatics, 2002

Jenny and her husband Jeff celebrated the birth of their daughter, Sydney Renee Abdo, in October 2013. Jenny also sits on the Informatics Advisory Board.

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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.

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Laura Dushkes

MLIS, 2002

Laura serves on the Library Council of Washington, representing special libraries.

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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.

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Layne Foit

MLIS, 2002

Layne is working as a Principal User Experience Designer at REI (Recreational Equipment Inc.).

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25 years in, Information School is more essential than ever

Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Twenty-five years ago, there were no smartphones or social media. Most of us had dial-up internet. We went to Blockbuster when we wanted to rent movies and read newspapers when we wanted to stay informed. Artificial intelligence was the...
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Cynthia Leitich Smith to share insights on Indigenous stories

Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Children's and young adult book author Cynthia Leitich Smith writes stories that center Indigenous youth as heroes. Her storytelling draws inspiration from moments and experiences she’s had in her own life.“I didn't really think of it...
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