Ashley Farley

MLIS, 2017

Ashley has transitioned from an internship to a staff position at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is an Associate Officer of Knowledge & Research services, focusing on open access initiatives and advocacy at the foundation. She is also keeping her Capstone project, FlourishOA.org, alive, which provides scholarly authors comparable data on journals article processing charges, coupled with impact data.

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Bree Norlander

MLIS, 2017

Bree co-authored a paper about the current state of Open Access publishing (https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3119v1). The opportunity to work on this paper came about through the Capstone work that she and Ashley Farley did with iSchool Assistant Professor Jevin West.

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Dianne Bohach

MLIS, 2016

Dianne is working as a teacher librarian, K-12, at the Jefferson County Open School in Lakewood, Colorado.

Luis Centurion

MSIM, 2016

As of July 2016, Luis was working as a project manager at Adobe Systems Inc.

Rachel Clarke

PhD, 2016

Rachel is now an assistant professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University.

Chelsea Cooper

MLIS, 2016

Chelsea is working for Sno-Isle Libraries. In February 2017, she helped to open the Mariner Library in south Everett. Previously this community had only been served by Sno-Isle's Library on Wheels. Chelsea says, "It has been a great experience opening a brand new, store-front location. I have been using my knowledge and skills gained from the MLIS program to fully serve the Mariner community!"

Tiffany Coulson

MLIS, 2016

Tiffany was promoted to Associate Director of Programming at Northwest Learning and Achievement in Wapato, Washington, serving more than 10 school districts in rural Washington. As a volunteer on the Innovation Team of the American Society of Engineering Educators, her proposal of digital badges for professional development was accepted at the Board of Directors' Annual Meeting in New Orleans.  Funding was awarded to support digital badges for LGBTQ allies in STEM fields at the college level. She also wrote a successful Laura Bush Grant to bring diverse books to a rural school in Mattawa, Washington.

Alexis Gregerson

Informatics, 2016

Alexis is working in the Recent College Grad Rotation Program at Intel Corp. in Hillsboro, Oregon. She is focusing on UX design/research and looking at the design of intel.com.

Kate Hanske

MLIS, 2016

After a few months of travel, job searching, and volunteer work with the Seattle Opera and Seattle Art Museum, Kate began working part-time at ProQuest on a new content support team. She reports she is in good company, with many other iSchool alums at ProQuest. She also continues to volunteer with the Seattle arts organizations.

Daniel Huie

Informatics, 2016

Daniel is currently a Web Developer at Nike in Portland, Oregon. He is on the SNKRS Web Launch team, which builds the front-end experience for high heat sneaker releases. As the platform has gone global, he recently had the opportunity to go to Shanghai, China, for one month to ramp up the new Nike Digital Engineering Department for its Greater China Headquarters.