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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.
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.
Joe Greenheron
Informatics, 2002
As of 2025, Joe is working part-time with a Tech Due Diligence consulting firm.
Catherine Haras
MLIS, 2002
As of 2026, Catherine was interim Dean of the College of Professional and Global Education at California State University, Los Angeles.
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.
Monica Jackson
MLIS, 2002
As of 2025, Monica was hired after graduation as a Teen Services Librarian at Seattle Public Library (Delridge Branch). After a couple moves, she has been at Sno-Isle Libraries since 2011 as a children's librarian (Lake Stevens Library), an assistant library manager (Mukilteo Library), and is currently the Library Manager at the Arlington Library.
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.