Luis Centurion

MSIM, 2016

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

Chelsea Cooper

MLIS, 2016

Chelsea is working for Sno-Isle Libraries and has been promoted to a Librarian Assistant position at a brand new library. She's very excited about this opportunity to open a new library where library service was not previously provided.

Alexis Gregerson

INFO, 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.

Amelia (Mia) Klaus

MLIS, 2016

After taking some time off, during which she traveled down the West Coast to Southern California and visited Louisiana for the first time, Amelia has started working as an Adjunct Faculty Librarian in Reference and Instruction at both Shoreline and Everett Community Colleges.
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Kevin Ly

INFO, 2016

After graduation, Kevin was heading to Intel to work as a Systems Analyst in Supply Chain IT.

Neal Parker

MLIS, 2016

Neal was hired at Renton Technical College as an Institutional Research Analyst.

Beck Prigot

MLIS, 2016

Beck accepted a position as a Content Librarian with Echo Services, and will be working at the Microsoft Library.

Emily Spracklin

MLIS, 2016

Emily was hired as a Library and Archives Paraprofessional 3 at Western Washington University Libraries.
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Amber Amin

INFO, 2015

Amber is living in Portland, working as a product manager at Nike on the Nike Football (soccer) app. She is also continuing to work on her Capstone project, Achilles, with her original team.
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Matthew Christian

MSIM, 2015

After graduation, Matthew was promoted to a manufacturing inventory control and production management supervisory role. He ran two teams for a year, after which he accepted another promotion as a Senior Financial Data Analyst in the central PACCAR office. He is currently helping his new team complete a data mart using SQL server, SSIS and Tableau.

Kimberly Gorman

MLIS, 2015

As a participant in the National Archives and Records Administration's Recent Graduates Program, Kimberly works as an Archives Technician at the National Archives at Riverside (CA).

Fei Guo

MSIM, 2015

Fei recently moved to Microsoft's Internal Audit's Data Analytics team after previously working as an experience associate at PwC (audit).
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Jessica Jones

MLIS, 2015

Jessica works as an archivist at The Museum of Flight.

Kevin Le

INFO, 2015

Kevin is a contract analyst on the Business Intelligence and Optimization team for the NFL Network in the greater Los Angeles area.

Howard Lin

INFO, 2015

Howard is working as an Associate Software Developer at Liberty Mutual.

Clint Malcolm

INFO, 2015

Clint is working as a software engineer at Indeed.

Bryce Newell

PhD, 2015

After completing his PhD at the iSchool, Bryce began working as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), a department within Tilburg University's School of Law, in The Netherlands. 

Shekhar Parkhi

MSIM, 2015

After graduating from the MSIM program in spring 2015, Shekhar moved to the San Francisco Bay area to pursue a Sales Engineering opportunity with PayPal. He chose to enroll in the MSIM program because he wanted to gain unique skill sets combining people, technology, management and design. On completion, he wanted to work for an employer who would help him directly apply these skills and build further on them. As a Partner Sales Engineer II at PayPal, he is able to directly do all of this; he works with PayPal's Partner Clients and internal teams to deliver the most optimum solution, using the right combination from the array of PayPal products, creating superior experiences for Merchants and Customers, with the ultimate aim of realizing maximum revenue return from the integration. 
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Steven Raden

INFO, 2015

Steven is working in IBM Design and has learned a lot about working on a very large project divided up between many teams. He's also learned about working with teams spread across the globe. He's been given some awesome opportunities to travel and attend a few conferences such as Design Matters in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Ashley Retzlaff

INFO, 2015

Ashley is working for Microsoft on the Groove Music team as a Program Manager.

I Chen Wu

INFO, 2015

I Chen is a Software Developer at Concur, a provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions.

Michael Beswetherick

INFO, 2014

Michael is currently doing article redesign work at The New York Times.

Mathew Brock

MLIS, 2014

Mathew is working as the Library and Historical Collections Manager for the Mazamas, a 122-year-old mountaineering organization founded on the summit of Mount Hood. He oversees the library, archives, museum object collection, and a team of volunteers.

Ian Burns

INFO, 2014

Ian works as a Software Developer for Slalom Consulting.

Jason Cabaniss

MLIS, 2014

Jason works for the Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Services at the University of Washington Libraries. In 2015, Jason's Capstone paper was published in Public Library Quarterly.

Colin Carson

MSIM, 2014

After graduating from the MSIM program, Colin left his contracting job at Microsoft and started his dream job as a Senior Data Analyst at Decisive Data, a startup consulting company. He's thrilled that he gets to work with smart people to collect, analyze, communicate, and solve data problems all day!
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Chuan Chen

MSIM, 2014

After working at Amazon for about one year, Chuan is now working at Nordstrom.

Alexander Constant

INFO, 2014

Alex is a civilian researcher and management analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense, working at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
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Courtney (Dutton) Cundiff

INFO, 2014

Courtney is working as a User Experience Architect/Interaction Designer for Accenture Digital.
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Ashley Dillinger

INFO, 2014

Ashley is a Software Engineer at PayScale.

Sarah Drerup

MLIS, 2014

Sarah is a Public Assistance Emergency Management Program Specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and a Decontamination Platoon Leader with the 792nd Chemical Company of the Washington Army National Guard.

Lisa Foster

MLIS, 2014

Lisa has been a Reference Librarian at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego for three years, and is currently serving as Vice President/President Elect of San Diego Area Law Libraries.

Tami Garrard

MLIS, 2014

Tami currently holds three different positions with community college libraries: Interim Head of Access Services at University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia College Campus Library, Part-Time Reference and Instruction Librarian at Seattle Central College Library, and Part-Time Reference Librarian at Edmonds Community College Library.

Zachary Hall

INFO, 2014

Zachary is working at Tyemill as a Developer Coach.

Jeff Hemsley

PhD, 2014

Jeff is an assistant professor at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. In 2017, he was selected as the Jeff Katzer Professor of the Year Award for excellence in teaching (selected by students).

Kate Kinsman

INFO, 2014

Kate works at the Disney Connected and Advanced Technologies office in Seattle as a User Interface Developer, working on the web platforms for several of their products.

Devin Luco

MSIM, 2014

Devin is a Technology Consultant at Accenture.

Jace Morrison

INFO, 2014

Jace was promoted to a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon and is currently doing mobile application development for a new product.

Phuong Anh (Anne) Nguyen

MLIS, 2014

Anne works as a contractor with Wells Fargo, developing a resource center for the digital sales marketing team.

Paul Oswald

INFO, 2014

Paul was hired in 2014 by Accenture as an associate software engineer, working on a project at a large telecommunications company as a Scrum Master. He is now responsible for two scrum teams and in 2015 become a Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

Rachel Price

MLIS, 2014

Rachel is a user experience designer and lead user researcher at Factor, a Seattle-based information modeling firm. She is also the organizer of the IA/UX Meetup, chairperson of ASIS&T Pacific Northwest Chapter, and last but not least, she sings and writes for the Seattle jazz-folk band, Tofte.

Yunhao Shen

MSIM, 2014

Yunhao is an Experience Designer at Vertafore in Bothell, WA.

Kali Stoehr

MLIS, 2014

Kali is a Research & Instruction Librarian at UW Bothell and Cascadia College.

Ceradwen Tokheim (nee Bacon)

MLIS, 2014

Ceradwen works as an Instructional Designer at the College of Education at Seattle University, helping faculty build and teach online classes with the goal of creating engaging and accessible classes of high quality that promote reflection and deep learning.

Junjie Wang

MSIM, 2014

Junjie works as a Software Engineer at IXL Learning in San Mateo, California.

Natalie Wittenbrook

INFO, 2014

Natalie was recently promoted to the role of Web Developer to pioneer a new front-end web team at Catalysis LLC in Seattle. She's been promoted twice since starting there two years ago.

Donghe Xu

MSIM, 2014

In 2015, Donghe started working for Amazon as a Software Development Engineer.

Albert Ybarra

MLIS, 2014

Less than three years after earning his MLIS degree, Albert is now the Director of the Learning Resource Center for Los Angeles Mission College.

Adil Ait Hamd

MSIM, 2013

Adil is a Project Manger at the University of Washington School of Medicine Dean's Office, where he leads system development projects, infrastructure upgrades and business process improvements.

Rachael Black

MLIS, 2013

In January 2016, Rachael started a new position as an archivist with the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives in Santa Fe.

Parmit Chilana

PhD, 2013

Parmit is now an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Previously, Parmit was an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo.

Steve DeBroux

MSIM, 2013

Steve is at Seattle Genetics, a biotech company developing antibody-based therapies for the treatment of cancer. He currently works with the pharmacovigilance (drug safety) team as a Senior Clinical Systems Analyst, providing adverse event data reporting in support of signal evaluation, risk management, and regulatory submissions.
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Nic Dobbins

MLIS, 2013

Nic works as a biomedical informatics programmer/developer at UW Medicine.

Violet Fox

MLIS, 2013

In August, Violet began working as Metadata Librarian at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University in Saint Joseph, Minnesota. She continues working as News Editor for the journal Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.

Sofie Gogic

MLIS, 2013

Sofie works as a manager for marketing operations for UW Medicine, helping the team procure and implement a new project management system. She is also spearheading a reorganization of physical and digital enterprise collections.
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Katherine Hagan

MSIM, 2013

Kate is the Content Manager at Content Harmony in Seattle. In addition to project management and writing and editing copy, she gets to help create some great collaborative projects including the Big Fish Video Game Stats Database and Unlocking Hawaii's Solar Gridlock.
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Lauren Hanson

INFO, 2013

Lauren works as a Service Performance Manager for Manufacturing & Supply Chain IT at Microsoft.

Molly Higgins

MLIS, 2013

Molly recently took a new job as Digital Services Librarian at the Library of Congress.
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Elizabeth Houser

MLIS, 2013

Elizabeth was recently promoted to Security Operations Manager at DefenseStorm, a security data platform that aggregates event data and keeps financial institutions secure and compliant with evolving FFIEC cybersecurity requirements. She currently serves on the Computer Information Systems (CIS) Advisory Committee for Edmonds Community College and was awarded Volunteer of the Year for King County Sheriff's Office in 2015.
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Dan Laush

INFO, 2013

Dan is working as a front-end developer at digital agency Tundra Pty Ltd in Melbourne, Australia.

Kaleb Lora

INFO, 2013

Kaleb recently joined the XBOX team at Microsoft as a Product Marketing Manager.

Laurel Narizny

MLIS, 2013

In 2015, Laurel began working as a Systems Librarian for Caltech in Pasadena, CA. She was originally hired by Caltech in 2014 as a Metadata Librarian.

Chaitrali Pimparkar

INFO, 2013

In 2015, Chaitrali left her consulting role at Deloitte Seattle to join the People Operations team at Google in the Bay Area. As a People Programs Specialist, she uses her background from the Informatics program to analyze large sets of data, identify key trends, and develop tools to drive and measure HR program effectiveness globally.

Renato Rodriguez

MLIS, 2013

In 2017, Renato became an archivist at the San Diego History Center. Previously, he was the Digital Resources Librarian for the San Diego Natural History Museum's Biodiversity Research Center of the Californias.
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Yan Sun

MSIM, 2013

Yan is a software engineer at DocuSign, a company specializing in digital transaction management.

Caitlin Tormey

MLIS, 2013

Caitlin is a Youth Services Librarian at Central Library, part of the Sacramento Public Library System.

Hsuan-Min Tsao

INFO, 2013

Hsuan-Min is a student in the Master of Science in Computer Science program at UCLA.

Lydia Vernon

MLIS, 2013

Lydia is the Information Resource Specialist at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in Washington, D.C.

Margaret Ansell

MLIS, 2012

In 2014, the University of Florida appointed Margaret to the position of Nursing & Consumer Health Liaison Librarian at the Health Science Center Library. She divides her time between serving the students and faculty at the College of Nursing and exploring new opportunities to serve the community as a health information professional.
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Sarah Caldwell

MLIS, 2012

In 2013, Sarah moved into a permanent position as an Information Research Specialist with the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Sarah was initially hired by CRS in July 2012 as part of the organization’s graduate recruit program.

Smritilekha Das

MSIM, 2012

Smritilekha has worked as a Risk Assurance Consultant for PwC Seattle since 2013.

Anna Endter

MLIS, 2012

Anna has been promoted to Head of Research Services at the Gallagher Law Library. She is also the President of the Law Librarians of Puget Sound, the local chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries. She wrote the cover article for the September issue of NWLawyer (the WSBA's magazine).

Mandy Gonnsen

MLIS, 2012

In 2012, Mandy began work as the Youth Services Librarian at the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library. Out of a staff of 17 people at the WTBBL, 5 are iSchool alumni, including manager Danielle Miller (MLIS 2003).

Melody Hauf-Belden

MLIS, 2012

Melody works in eCommerce as a Web Producer for Microsoft, focusing on the websites of their international online stores.

Jonathan King

MLIS, 2012

In 2013, Jonathan began work as an Archivist I for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in Austin, TX.

Marcus Lindbloom

MLIS, 2012

Marcus was hired in 2014 as an Adult Services Librarian at the central branch of Douglas County Library System in Roseburg, Oregon. He is responsible for nonfiction collection development, reference, and programming.

Chris Mathews

INFO, 2012

Chris works in market research at Microsoft, with a focus on PC game developers.
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Cheryl Morrison

MLIS, 2012

Cheryl presented a poster at ALA Annual June 2015 on the change to a new ILS as part of a consortium with a focus on impacts in acquisitions.

Estia Nyopieh

MSIM, 2012

Estia is a Social Media Trainer at the National Institute of Public Administration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Lucas Reber

INFO, 2012

Lucas was part of a team that competed in the 8th Annual BUB Motorcycle Land Speed Trials in the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah. BUB organizes an event that concentrates on motorcycle land speed records. Lucas was the crew chief for a team called Sodium Distortion, comprised of seven riders and bikes, and he has been helping campaign for the world’s fastest 500cc motorcycle. Lucas’s team won the 7th Annual Fritz Kott Enthusiast Award, given to the team that best exemplifies the spirit of motorcycle land speed racing.

Colleen Salmi

INFO, 2012

Colleen works for Liberty Mutual Insurance as a Release Manager, managing and facilitating all production releases for the personal insurance business unit.

Julie Tanaka

MLIS, 2012

Julie took a new position as Curator for Rare Books in Special Collections at Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame.

Harrison Weingard

INFO, 2012

Harrison is working as a software engineer at Apple, developing tools and processes that can build, release and support operating systems that power Macs, iPhones, Apple Watches, Apple TVs, etc.

Rachel Woodbrook

MLIS, 2012

Rachel has left the academic library world, and now works as a data indexer with the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

In 2013, Rachel co-authored an article in the Journal of Western Archives, The Bonds of Organization: Zine Archives and the Archival Tradition.

Stephanie Zimmerman

MLIS, 2012

Stephanie works as the Director of Instructional Technology at Seattle University School of Law. She is also a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute, a Certified Broadcast Networking Technologist (CBNT) through the Society of Broadcast Engineers, and a full member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers.

In 2012 she presented at both the CALI Conference for Law School Computing (San Diego, CA) and the Northwest Managers of Educational Technology Conference (Bellingham, WA). In March 2013, she spoke on Crowdsourcing for Science at a Pacific Science Center event.
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Talea Anderson

MLIS, 2011

Talea has worked for Central Washington University Libraries since 2011. In 2014, Talea became the Scholarly Communications and Metadata Librarian, and is responsible for managing Central Washington University's institutional repository, ScholarWorks.

Lillian Dabney

MLIS, 2011

Lillian works as a librarian in the LIP program at Seattle Public Library.

Gauravee Gandhi

MSIM, 2011

Gauravee works as an Integration Engineer at Intel, acting as a liaison between stakeholders, users, and development teams.

Rebekah Kamp

MLIS, 2011

In 2013, Rebekah began working as a Youth Services Librarian at the Belgrade Community Library in Belgrade, MT. She has been at the library since 2011, working previously as a cataloger and systems administrator.

Jonathan Koroshec

MLIS, 2011

Jonathan Koroshec is an Adult Services Librarian at the Ballard Branch of the Seattle Public Library. In 2016, he received the Rinehart Librarian of the Year award for the SPL system. The award honors the librarian “who demonstrates innovation and risk-taking behavior, nurtures personal talents and those of others, and provides excellent service for patrons.”

Lisa McGreenery

MLIS, 2011

Lisa is the Children's Books Editorial Manager for Amazon Books' brick-and-mortar store in Seattle.
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Emily Oxenford

MSIM, 2011

Emily is editor of the recently published Reflections on Risk III, a compilation of risk-related research notes published by Annie Searle & Associates LLC. This third volume in the series features 26 new research notes from 16 different contributors, and examines risk-related issues of our time, as well as the ethical dimensions of issues like identity management, culture risk, privacy and security. The authors wrote the research notes while students in UW's MSIM program.

Jason Phelps

MSIM, 2011

Jason joined Crane Aerospace and Electronics in 2013 as the Group Supply Chain Manager, running the materials organization for eight plants. Jason also sits on the MSIM Advisory Board.

Kristi Powell

MLIS, 2011

Kristi is the Branch Supervisor at the Orangevale Branch Library in the Sacramento Public Library System; the branch has been in existence since 1912, and has had seven locations, but no permanent home.

Elizabeth Russell

MLIS, 2011

In summer 2016, Elizabeth became Associate Archivist at Providence Archives (for Providence Health and Services).

Osman Surkatty

INFO, 2011

Osman is looking forward to his new job at Amazon as a security engineer for Amazon Web Services, working on their Elastic Cloud Computing product.

Jeroen van den Eijkhof

MSIM, 2011

Jeroen has worked with Deloitte Digital in Seattle as a Senior User Experience Architect since 2013.

Joshua Walker

MLIS, 2011

In 2013, Joshua began working as a Senior User Experience Designer at LiveAreaLabs, a digital retail agency.

Kayhan Atesci

MSIM, 2010

Kayhan works as a Senior UX Designer at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA. An app Kayhan led the design of, SAP Scouting, was a finalist and People's Choice Award at the Interaction '14 Awards hosted by Interaction Design Association. SAP Scouting is a web application built for NFL teams to help scout players from the NCAA and within NFL in new ways.

Naomi Bishop

MLIS, 2010

Naomi is now a science and engineering teaching, learning, and research services librarian at Northern Arizona University.

Trupti Deo

MSIM, 2010

After graduation, Trupti worked as a Solution Manager at Microsoft from 2010 to 2014. 
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Melody Sky Eisler

MLIS, 2010

Melody began work in February 2015 as the library director for the Port Townsend Public Library in Port Townsend, WA. She was previously the manager of the Silverdale branch of Kitsap Regional Library, and had also served as chair of the Kitsap County Arts Board.

Rachel Hungerford

MSIM, 2010

Since January 2015, Rachel has been working as a UX Researcher for Amazon in Seattle.

Daniel Kore

INFO, 2010

Daniel is currently a technology consultant at Accenture. He spends most of his time inventing and implementing projects. In March 2015, he will be going back to Ethiopia to start a biofuel energy system with a team of 20 people from the U.S, two of whom are distinguished scientists.

Nicholaus Malone

MSIM, 2010

Nick has worked as a Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon since 2013. Previously, Nick worked as a product manager at Veer, a Corbis subsidiary company that licenses low-cost images crowd-sourced from photographers around the world.

Melissa R. Mather

MLIS, 2010

Melissa works as an Adult Services Librarian at the King County Library System, after having worked as both a page and a library assistant there.

Elizabeth Mitchell

MLIS, 2010

Elizabeth is a Senior Metadata Librarian at ProQuest in Seattle, and is taking professional development courses on Linked Data and Big Data.

Jennifer Morales

MLIS, 2010

Since graduating from the iSchool, Jennifer's career has been diverse, including working as a Catalog Specialist for Amazon Kindle and an Indexer for Microsoft Project. Jennifer works for Google Maps in Bothell, WA, providing administrative support and developing information products (websites and content) to a Program Management Group.

Nicholas Sweers

MSIM, 2010

Nicholas works as a Senior Manager, Knowledge Management, Global Supply Operations at Expedia. Previously, Nicholas worked in information architecture for Amazon from 2011-2014.

Vivek Venkatramani

MSIM, 2010

Vivek is a Manager in IT Audit and Assurance at KPMG, where he has worked since 2010.

Abraham Wenning

MLIS, 2010

Abe left the consulting world in 2016 and is now a Senior UX Designer at Microsoft.

Mesa Yee

INFO, 2010

In January 2015 Mesa moved to Los Angeles to take a position as Supervisor of Digital Ad Operations at OMD Entertainment, a digital media agency that works on all the Disney titles including Marvel, Dreamworks, and Lucasfilm. She is in charge of all the technical operations and deployment of client advertising campaigns.

Jin Ahn

MSIM, 2009

Jin works at SK Global, searching for new business opportunities in finance and insurance as a senior manager.

David Austin

MLIS, 2009

David is the branch manager at the North Fork Community Library in Kendall, Washington, part of the Whatcom County Library System.

Kristina Dahlberg

INFO, 2009

In 2014, Kristina was promoted to Technical Accounting Manager at Atlassian, a pre-IPO software company in San Francisco. The company is known for JIRA, Confluence, HipChat, Bitbucket, and more. She focuses primarily on software revenue recognition, and her technical background (and double major in accounting) is extremely helpful as she works with the company to understand revenue streams, execute new contracts and drive changes to their systems.

Kristen Dietiker

MLIS, 2009

Kristen was appointed Chief Information Officer for Menlo College in Atherton, California, in September 2015.

Zhuang (John) Jiang

MSIM, 2009

Jiang has worked as a senior analytical manager in the banking/financial industry for five years, managing high-profile projects in areas such as mortgages, risk portfolios and virtual channel fraud. Jiang lives in the Bay Area in California and is happy to provide any coaching or career advice to students.

Monica McCool

MSIM, 2009

Monica gave birth to Oona McCool in October 2013. After suiting up in her iSchool onesie, Monica and her husband, Alan, say that Oona is ready to be a member of the iSchool class of 2022.

In 2013, the iSchool produced a short video featuring Monica and her work at Satori Software.

Blynne Olivieri

MLIS, 2009

In 2016, Blynne was one of 17 top managers in academic libraries to be appointed a Senior Fellow at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies following an international competition. Blynne currently serves as Head of Special Collections at the University of West Georgia's Ingram Library, where she has created a student-centered learning, teaching, and research unit through refocusing exhibits, programming, space, and collections; and has responsibilities for fundraising and employee engagement in the broader library.

Thani Suchoknand

INFO, 2009

Since 2014, Thani has worked as a Product Designer at Google in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Lia Vella

MLIS, 2009

Lia works for the National Park Service's Library Information Management program, as its first Metadata Coordinator. She's training field personnel at hundreds of park libraries to enter holdings and other information into NPS's enterprise-level catalog as well as doing marketing and outreach to NPS and other federal and public stakeholders.

Jason Wyttenbach

INFO, 2009

Jason is Senior Operations Network Engineer for Ericsson, specializing in core LTE network systems.

Jack Baur

MLIS, 2008

Jack was promoted to Supervising Librarian of the Berkeley Public Library North Branch in March 2016.

Catriona Buhayar

MLIS, 2008

Catriona published a comedic romance, "Mistakes Were Made," as her alter-ego Taylor Rush. A second novel, "Best Laid Plans," should be published by the end of the year!
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Rachel Elkington

MSIM, 2008

Rachel was hired in 2016 to manage a team of consultants for Adobe in northern Germany.  She lives in Berlin with her husband and son, and is learning German as fast as she can.

Joel Larson

MSIM, 2008

In June 2014, Joel was promoted to Assistant Director of Operations at the University of Washington Tacoma Institute of Technology.

Joel and Tracy Henderson (MSIM 2008), manager of venture sales at Mike's Hard Lemonade, partnered on a Capstone project that took on a new life. In 2011, Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, a faculty member at the UW Center for Leadership in Athletics, was awarded a partial grant from the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics to continue development of the Intercollegiate Athletics Leadership Database, which Joel and Tracy developed as students.

Lokesh Ramani

MSIM, 2008

Lokesh is a director at KPMG, leading cyber security transformation services for the firm in the Pacific Northwest.

Anna (Wiggs) Sebree

MLIS, 2008

Anna is the librarian and media specialist at Holy Names Academy in Seattle. In 2012-13, she served on the Executive Board of the Washington Library Media Association as the chair for small districts & private schools.

Leela Yellesetty

MLIS, 2008

Leela works as the Manager for Records & Data Protection at Casey Family Programs.

Deborah Bancroft

MLIS, 2007

Deborah is a Reference Librarian at Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen, WA.

Nathan Freier

PhD, 2007

Nathan has been at Microsoft since 2010. He's worked on a number of projects, most recently a new Office presentation app, Sway. The preview version is free and available at http://sway.com.

Laura Horne-Popp

MLIS, 2007

Laura became Assistant Dean of Library Services in the James C. Kirkpatrick Library at the University of Central Missouri in July 2016.

Martin Nash

INFO, 2007

In 2015, Martin started work as an iOS Developer at REI Previously he worked for Linea Photosharing, Shutterfly, and spent five years as an English teacher in Japan. Martin also teaches a series of courses for the UW's PCE iOS & Mac Application Development certificate program.

Betsy Rolland

MLIS, 2007

In 2013, Betsy completed her PhD in Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington, focusing her research on coordinating centers in cancer epidemiology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 2014, she began as a Cancer Prevention Research Fellow at the National Cancer Institute, spending the first year at Johns Hopkins University completing a Master of Public Health.
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Jeffrey Winter

MLIS, 2007

Jeffrey is the Digitization Project Librarian at WSDOT, publishing historical Highway Department newsletters, planning studies, & ephemera to CONTENTdm.

Harver (Chun Hao) Yang

MSIM, 2007

Harver has worked as a Software Development Manager at iSoftStone in Kirkland, WA since 2008.

Stephen Coker

MLIS, 2006

Stephen is serving as teacher librarian at North Thurston High School in Lacey, Washington. In October 2015, he was honored as Washington State Teacher Librarian of the Year by the Washington Library Media Association at its annual conference in Yakima, Washington. When not in the library or a classroom, Stephen leads the school's school Outdoor Adventure Club.
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Christopher Erdmann

MLIS, 2006

Christopher joined the North Carolina State University Libraries as their Chief Strategist for Research Collaboration.
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Mary Hansen

MLIS, 2006

Mary works as an Assistant Archivist for the City of Portland, and co-authored a chapter in the book Outreach: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections (Rowman, 2014). The chapter focuses on the Oregon Archives Crawl, an annual volunteer-run event designed to introduce participants to Portland-area archives through an "archives crawl" that ends with an afterparty. In 2014, the Crawl had 30 archival organizations represented at 3 host locations, and over 800 participants!

Chris Iremonger

INFO, 2006

In 2015, Chris joined Google (again) in a leadership role in Android. He is currently a Technical Program Manager working on developer tools used to create mobile Apps.

From 2013 to 2015, Chris was a director of customer success at a growing mobile marketing startup in the Palo Alto, California. His team focused on technical integrations, marketing best practices, and a great customer journey.

From 2006 to 2009, Chris managed a number of teams at Google in technical sales focused on online, SMB, and educational sales. From 2009-2013, he lead operations teams focused on technical integrations and deployments for Google Apps and Chrome OS. At Google he was on the launch team for Google Apps, Chrome OS, and a number of enterprise focused technologies.

Leilani Johnson

MLIS, 2006

Leilani was promoted in 2014 to Senior Library Program Manager for the Microsoft Library. She manages the global marketing efforts for the Library, utilizing digital, social, and print channels. She also manages contracts, help and guidance features, content strategy, and serves as the resident expert on identity and access management for third party electronic resources utilizing federated single sign-on identity technologies.

In her spare time she volunteers for a number of non-profit organizations, travels, and works on numerous creative writing and art projects.
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Andrew Martin

INFO, 2006

Andrew earned a Master of Statistics from Stanford in 2012.  More recently he started working in the Data Science team at Zillow as a statistical modeler for its home valuation algorithm, the Zestimate.

Michael Smith

MLIS, 2006

Michael recently left an industry job to become the faculty director of an iSchool interdisciplinary master's degree program, MHCI+D! He is really excited to be back on campus after 10 years in industry.
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Phoebe Ayers

MLIS, 2005

Phoebe joined MIT in 2015 as Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Librarian after nine years as Physical Science & Engineering Librarian at UC Davis. She continues to be heavily involved in Wikipedia (after serving on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Directors for four years), including speaking and writing about how Wikipedia and libraries can work together. Phoebe co-authored a 2008 book, How Wikipedia Works, and published "Wikipedia, User-generated Content, and the Future of Reference Sources" in 2014's Reimagining Reference in the 21st Century.
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Mike Doane

MLIS, 2005

Mike became a full-time Lecturer at the iSchool in 2015.

Erin Hawk

MLIS, 2005

In September 2014, Erin began working as the Senior Director of User Experience for Ralph Lauren's Global, Digital, and e-Commerce Division.

Jenine Lillian

MLIS, 2005

Jenine is a consultant and educator, and has taught for the UW iSchool, Simmons College, and the University of British Columbia's School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. Jenine also compiled and edited the 2009 book Cool Teen Programs for Under $100 as a fundraiser for the Young Adult Library Services Association.

Susan Presley

MLIS, 2005

Susan is a Senior Manager of Content Operations at ProQuest. Susan also sits on the MLIS Advisory Board.

Jamie Prins

INFO, 2005

In 2013, Jamie was promoted to Senior Marketing Manager, Kindle Education, at Amazon. She and her husband Ryan Prins (INFO 2005), a senior consultant at Avanade, also welcomed their first child, son Lincoln.

Liesl Seborg

MLIS, 2005

Liesl is the Senior Librarian for Adult Outreach and Programming for Salt Lake County Library Services, and was recently named 2016 Librarian of the Year by the Utah Library Association. From her nomination letter: "Liesl has a passion for serving the underserved... And when [she] sees an opportunity to provide services to a group in need, Liesl finds the time and pursues the resources to make it happen."

Kristen Shuyler

MLIS, 2005

Kristen co-edited a book, "Integrating Information Literacy Into the Chemistry Curriculum" (American Chemical Society 2016), and co-authored two chapters within it.

Joseph T. Tennis

PhD, 2005

Joe is now Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University of Washington Information School.  This year, he served as Chair of the Governing Board of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.  He will also continue to serve as the President for the International Society for Knowledge Organization for another two years.

James Boaz

MSIM, 2004

Since graduation from the mid-career MSIM program, work has taken James to T-Mobile, then Clearwire/Sprint, where he has put many of his MSIM skills to use in the corporate setting. He serves on the MSIM Advisory Board and is enjoying the opportunity to add to the conversation on ways to strengthen the mid-career program.

John Henderson

MLIS, 2004

John has lived in Asia since 2005. In 2014, he led a UN food security survey in northern Myanmar.

Christina Kulp

MLIS, 2004

After 10 years as the Life Sciences Librarian at the University of Oklahoma, Christina accepted a new job that gets her closer to home. She is the first ever Data Services Librarian at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. 

Joan Maybank

MLIS, 2004

Joan has been working with the Edmonds School District as an Elementary Library Information Specialist since 2004, and now works at Lynnwood High School.

Carmen Oveissi Field

MSIM, 2004

A Principal in Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP in New York City, Carmen was recently appointed as the Chief Technology Officer for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, also in New York City.

She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two young daughters.

Danielle Rowland

MLIS, 2004

Danielle was promoted to Associate Librarian at the UW Bothell & Cascadia Campus Library in 2016. She is currently the American & Ethnic Studies Librarian, coordinating librarian instruction in the library's First Year & Pre-major Program, and also serves as the Assistant Head of Teaching & Learning.

Sandy Zell

MLIS, 2004

Sandy was the Creator and Project Manager of the “We Share A Story: An International Art/Literacy Connection” (WSAS) program from 2002 until the project concluded in 2013. Sandy started WSAS while with the Bellingham Sister Cities Association in 2002 as a vehicle to connect Bellingham schools to K-6 librarians, teachers, and students around the world the opportunity. At its peak, schools in 23 countries participated in integrated arts experiences, connecting and sharing information, stories, and artwork.

Memo Cordova

MLIS, 2003

Memo is an Associate Professor/Instruction Librarian at Boise State University, Albertsons Library, immersed in Humanities studies and Open Access initiatives in the library and campus community.
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Aaron Louie

MLIS, 2003

In 2014, Aaron took a position as VP of Design and UX (and employee #1) at flightSpeak, a very early-stage travel app startup based in Seattle. He's working remotely full time, because in the summer of 2014 his wife, Kristen Shuyler (MLIS, 2005), got her dream job at James Madison University in Virginia. They and their daughter now live in Staunton, VA, a small town in the idyllic Shenandoah Valley, where Aaron's sister lives with her husband (a JMU math professor) and their two kids.

Aaron also sits on the MLIS Advisory Board.

Kim Mats Mats

MLIS, 2003

Kim is now a Manager/UX Lead at Avanade.

Anne Murphy

MLIS, 2003

In August 2014, Anne was promoted to Lead Librarian for Public Computing for Sno-Isle Libraries.

Justin Otto

MLIS, 2003

Justin is the chair of the library faculty at Eastern Washington University, and also the coordinator for the EWU Libraries' institutional repository, the EWU Digital Commons.

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.

Jenny Abdo

INFO, 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.

Laura Dushkes

MLIS, 2002

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

INFO, 2002

Joe has worked as an Implementation Engineer at EnergySavvy since 2013.
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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.
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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.

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.
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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.

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.

Lisa Sanders

MLIS, 2001

Lisa is a librarian of the newly founded Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum opening in January 2016. 

Mike Buschman

MLIS, 2000

In 2011, Mike co-founded Plum Analytics, which tracks, harvests, and displays metrics from online sources to measure the influence of researchers, groups, and institutions. In 2014, the company was acquired by EBSCO Information Services.

Gwendolyn Haley

MLIS, 2000

Gwendolyn works as a Library Services Manager for the Spokane County Library District and is in charge of Explore and Discover service priority--a job that encompasses programming for members in elementary school, middle, high school, and beyond. She and her team work closely with community partners to provide programs, classes and events that allow our community to explore and discover their interests, passions, and hobbies, as well as engage with their community. 

In 2014, Gwendolyn was elected as Vice-President/President-Elect of the Pacific Northwest Library Association.

Veronica Tabares

MLIS, 2000

Veronica is now a full-time author, and has five novels and two picture books in print, as well as six feature-length screenplays. Her most recent young adult novel, Gray Zone​, won bronze in the 2015 Feathered Book Quill Book Awards. Library Café, her newest picture book, is due to be published in January 2016.

Brian Bannon

MLIS, 1999

In 2012, Brian was appointed as the Commissioner of the Chicago Public Library. In a press releasing announcing his appointment, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said, “Brian Bannon has the experience and vision to lead the Chicago Public Library and guide its expansion in the digital world,” and “it is more important than ever that our libraries provide children, students and families with resources to learn and grow. With his expertise in digital technology, Brian will expand the online resources of the Chicago Public Library and broaden the horizons of those who rely on it.”

In 2017, he was named a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, an educational and policy studies organization. The fellowship is aimed at mobilizing leaders under age 45 to tackle the world's most intractable problems.

Previously, Brian was the Chief Information Officer for the San Francisco Public Library, responsible for its digital strategy, information technology, web media, and online services. Brian also worked as the chief of branches, managed the staff and operations for San Francisco's neighborhood libraries, and had a central role in implementing San Francisco's $200 million branch library improvement program.

Dana Bostrom

MLIS, 1999

Dana is the new executive director of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of 39 college and university libraries in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.

Debbie Chavez

MLIS, 1999

Debbie serves as the program manager for a school library program in Guatemala through Librarians Without Borders.
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Heather (Wilder) Pretty

MLIS, 1999

In October 2014, Heather was appointed as the coordinator for the Program for Cooperative Cataloging's new Atlantic Canada NACO Funnel.

Susan Anderson-Newman

MLIS, 1998

Susan was identified by Library Journal as a 2013 Mover and Shaker for her work as an Early Learning Supervising Librarian, and former storyteller, in the Pierce County Library System.

Cass Mabbott

MLIS, 1998

After years of working in the public library field, Cass is now pursuing her Ph.D. in Library and Information Science at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a focus on youth services and diverse users.
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Carol Shenk

MLIS, 1998

Carol is the King County (WA) Archivist.
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Emily Dagg

MLIS, 1997

Emily is the Manager of Youth Services at the Everett Public Library, in Everett, WA.

Lisa Mecklenberg Jackson

MLIS, 1997

In 2013, the Montana Supreme Court selected Lisa to serve as the state law librarian. The Montana Law Library provides access to legal information to Montana’s courts, the Legislature, state officers and employees, attorneys, and members of the public. Previously, Lisa worked as the in-house counsel for Equity Management, Inc. in Missoula, as a librarian at the Missoula Public Library, and as a librarian for the Montana Legislature's Legislative Services Division.

Julie Tanner

MLIS, 1997

Julie retired from the Fort Vancouver Regional Library in Vancouver, Washington, in late 2014 after 15 years as a reference and selections librarian.  She entered UW at age 40 in 1995 to earn her MLIS and it was a wonderful second career.

Debra Westwood

MLIS, 1997

Debra is the Library Cluster Manager for three branches of the King County Library System: Bellevue, Lake Hills and Crossroads.

Ruth Griffith

MLIS, 1995

Ruth works part-time as an Adult Services Librarian at the Mukilteo Library in the Sno-Isle Libraries system.

Alene Moroni

MLIS, 1994

Alene, who works as a manager, selection and order, at King County Library System, was recognized as a 2013 Library Journal Mover and Shaker.

Mike Marlin

MLIS, 1992

Since 2007, Mike has served as the Director and Regional Librarian for the California Braille and Talking Book Library in Sacramento, an affiliate of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. He continues to serve on the ALA Council as a Councilor at Large and was elected to a three-year term on the ALA Executive Board (2015-18), the first blind librarian and the first staff member of the California State Library to serve on the Board. His son and grandchildren live in the Seattle area, and he fodly recalls his days in the Northwest. If you have a reference query or need comic relief, check out his guide dog on Facebook: Vivaldi: Guide Dog Extraordinaire, Canine Librarian.

Jim O'Grady

M.Lib, 1992

In 2011, Jim retired from an active career in public librarianship. He returned to the Pacific Northwest, and he and his wife now live in Greenbank, WA, on Whidbey Island.

Margaret Jakubcin

MLIS, 1991

Margaret works as the director of the North Olympic Library System in Clallam County, WA.

John Sheller

MLIS, 1991

In October 2012, John was appointed to a three-year term as the Federal Relations Coordinator for the Washington Library Association.

Irene Haines

M.Lib, 1989

After 15 years as a Branch Library Manager, Irene moved to her favorite position: Adult Services Librarian at the Broadview Branch of the Seattle Public Library.  She started at Broadview in 1983 and worked in 10 different locations before ending up full circle back at Broadview.

Thurston Miller

M.Lib, 1989

Thurston has been the Chemistry-Physics Librarian at the University of Notre Dame for the past 25 years. He is a member of the library advisory boards for the Institute of Physics and the American Chemical Society.

George Draffan

M.Lib, 1988

George conducts strategic research for a diverse range of clients, including environmental organizations and community groups, law firms, journalists, and labor unions.
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Jane Keefer

M.Lib, 1988

Jane is retired, but still volunteers each week at the Providence Portland Cancer Center library for patients and families. She also teaches and performs folk music, plays with several Portland groups that perform protest and labor songs, and maintains and adds material to her index of recordings and books of tradition based musics.
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Charlie Crawford

MLIS, 1987

Charlie is the Executive Vice President of Instruction at Edmonds Community College. Prior to his appointment at Edmonds CC, Charlie served 11 years in various dean roles at Tacoma Community College.

Charlie's community college background includes serving as a dean in four different areas: academic services; business and workforce education; business, learning resources, and English for academic purposes; and learning resources and English as a Second Language (ESL). He also taught at TCC, Lesley University, and City University as an adjunct faculty for more than eight years.

Charlie received his Doctor of Philosophy in Education from the Community College Leadership Program at Oregon State University. He also earned his Master's in Librarianship and a Bachelor's in English from the University of Washington.

Phyllis Potter

M.Lib, 1987

Phyllis retired as owner-operator of an independent bookstore on Lopez Island, and is now a part-time parish administrator for her local Episcopal church and a full-time Borzoi breeder/owner/handler.

Janet Hauck

M.Lib, 1986

Janet is the University Archivist at the Whitworth University Archives in Spokane, WA. Janet has previously served as president of Northwest Archivists, Inc.

Marjorie Coots Doyle

M.Lib, 1983

After years of working in academic, special and public libraries, Marjorie retired from Missoula Public Library, where she was an adult reference and senior outreach librarian. She has been accepted to the Fulbright Specialist roster in Library Science and remains active in the Montana State Library Association.

As of early 2017, she was still on the Fulbright Specialist list with hopes to go to Ethiopia to help at an academic library and with literacy groups.  She has also returned to Missoula Public Library as an on-call reference librarian to help cover vacation and medical leaves with fellow retiree and UW grad Martha Thayer.

Cheryl Goodwin

M.Lib, 1982

Cheryl is currently the Director of Institutional Assessment & Library Services at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. Prior to that, she spent 24 years as a medical librarian at hospitals throughout the Puget Sound.

Judith Alexander

M.Lib, 1979

Since Judith retired early in 2001 from the Edmonds School District as a Learning Resources Specialist (aka an elementary school librarian), she has lived part-time near Munich, Germany. The late iSchool Professor Spencer Shaw and Margaret Read MacDonald (M.Lib 1964) inspired her to tell stories, and Judith is active in storytelling guilds in both Seattle and Munich, where she tells stories to adults and in schools, mostly in English. This has led to invitations to Scotland, Latvia and Estonia, as well as to festivals in Germany.

Melinda "Mindy" McCormick Coslor

M.Lib, 1979

Mindy completed a Ph.D. in Education in 2015.  The title of her dissertation is "Libraries and the Community College Baccalaureate: Meeting the Challenge," a multi-case study of Washington state community college libraries whose institutions implemented baccalaureate degrees.

Patricia (Callander) Hedtke

M.Lib, 1979

Patricia is the Instructional Design and Curriculum Coordinator for the University of Washington School of Pharmacy.

David Kent

M.Lib, 1979

David spent 40 years working in libraries in the United States and Colombia, including libraries in K-12 schools, community colleges, and universities, and medical libraries. He is now happily retired in southwestern New Mexico, where his activities revolve around reading, gardening, weaving, laughter yoga, and meditation.

Thomas Moak

M.Lib, 1979

Thomas has been a librarian with Mid-Columbia Libraries in Tri-Cities, WA for over 35 years, and currently works as Branch Manager of the West Richland Library. He is also active in politics, having served in the Washington State Legislature and on the Kennewick City Council, and is now on the Port of Kennewick Commission. Thomas says: "Librarianship was my entree into community service."

Lori Ricigliano

M.Lib, 1979

Lori, who works for the University of Puget Sound as the Associate Director for Information and Access Services, gave a lightning talk on assessing library spaces at the Orbis Cascade Alliance Library User Assessment Un-Conference in April 2014. Lori also co-authored the article "Libraries and Institutional Research: Opportunities for Collaboration," which appeared in the May 2014 issue of College and Research Libraries News. In August 2014, she presented her poster on Integrating Library Assessment into Curriculum Reviews at the Association of Research Libraries' Library Assessment Conference.

Bill Williams

M.Lib, 1979

Bill is the Chief of the Center for Cryptologic History at the National Security Agency.

Linda Pierce

M.Lib, 1978

Linda works as an Associate Professor and Collection Development Librarian at Gonzaga University. In 2013, Linda was Gonzaga's first librarian to be elected by the faculty to serve a three-year term as a Faculty Regent.

Rivkah Sass

M.Lib, 1978

Rivkah is executive director of the Sacramento Public Library. Its Design Spot and Library of Things were prominently featured in the New York Times in September 2015 in an article titled "These Public Libraries Are for Snowshoes and Ukeleles."
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Ann Emery

M.Lib, 1977

The 2014-15 school year is Ann's last year of work as a school librarian! She's had a great career, with highlights including award trips to China, Japan, Korea, and India. She encourages all school librarians to get involved with the Fulbright, National Consortium For Teaching About Asia, and the Hanban Chinese Bridge programs. 

Nancy Holcomb

M.Lib, 1977

Nancy is retired from librarianship, but enjoys volunteering at the downtown Seattle Public Library Welcome Desk: "Still love assisting library users and meeting all the visitors to Seattle."

Sally Wise

M.Lib, 1977

Sally is the director of the law library and a professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law. In 2014 she was appointed by the American Association of Law Libraries to be their representative to the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association.

Mark Linneman

M.Lib, 1976

Mark retired in October 2013 after 14 years as a librarian at the California State Law Library. Over his 40-year career he held a number of positions, including working as the director of the University of Kentucky Law Library and as a law librarian at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Alice Shands

M.Lib, 1976

In 2012, Alice retired after a long career as a public librarian in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Over the course of her career, Alice worked as the director of the Sunflower County Library System (Indianola, MS), the director of the Columbus-Lowndes Library System (Columbus, MS), the senior manager of the LINC Department (telephone reference and community information database) of the Memphis Library and Information Center, a consultant to public libraries for the Arkansas State Library, a branch manager for the Central Arkansas Library System, and a children's librarian for the Memphis Public Library and Information Center. 

Alice also established the patient and family library at the Arkansas Children's Hospital, served as the executive director of the Arkansas Division of Volunteerism, the executive director of the Wilowe Institute (a rural leadership development agency in Arkansas), and the executive director of the Arkansas Library Association.

Penny Hazelton

M.Lib, 1975

After revising her chapter on banking law, Penny edited the 900-page revised edition of Specialized Legal Research, a reference work for law librarians and lawyers. Sold to over 270 law libraries, the 2014 edition was published in-house at the UW Law School's Gallagher Law Library.

Marna Tisdel

M.Lib, 1975

Marna retired in 2014, after working first as a librarian for many years, followed by a second career as a teacher for another 25 years. She's happy to be footloose and fancy free!

Makiko Doi

M.Lib, 1974

Makiko has been practicing Japanese calligraphy since her retirement from the library at Central Washington University in 1993. In 2014, a collection of her calligraphy works was published in Japan.

Arlene (Kairoff) Cohen

M.Lib, 1973

Arlene volunteers at the Historical Visual Materials Collections, a part of the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections describing and preserving historical photographs relating to the Pacific Northwest.  Some of her projects include working with photographs of ferry boats and terminals from the 1950s; photographs from a Seafair Milk Carton Derby held on Seattle's Green Lake; and photographs from a 1917 expedition on the Kalmor II launch up the Inside Passage in British Columbia looking at logging operations. In working with these photographs, she is having great fun discovering the rich history of this region.

Michael Moffitt

M.Lib, 1972

Michael died on May 5, 2016. He was a reference librarian at Seattle Public Library for 31 years before his retirement in 2000. 

Robert R. Pankl

M.Lib, 1972

Robert has worked for over 40 years as a librarian at the Tacoma Public Library. He has been doing programming and works with a colleague on genealogy classes, which are a big success. He recently had a program in which a ranger from Mount Rainier National Park recounted in storyteller fashion the first climb of Mount Rainier. His paper on using the resources of the public library to set up a business was accepted for publication by the Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship.

Donna Hanson

M.Lib, 1971

Donna spent her professional years as an academic librarian at the Science Library at Washington State University (1972-1981) and as the Science Librarian at the University of Idaho (1981-2001). After her retirement at the end of 2001, she remained active for several years in the Pacific Northwest Library Association and the Idaho Library Association. However, she found that kept her a bit too busy, so she has reduced her involvement and now focuses on spending time with her family.

Bob Perrin

M.Lib, 1970

Bob is retired, now teaching at Wofford College (Spartanburg,SC) Continuing Ed program on U.S. 20th century diplomatic and military history.

Gail Dykstra

M.Lib, 1969

Gail is the Senior Technology Manager for Software at CoMotion, the collaborative hub for expanding the societal impact of the University of Washington community.
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Sharon Reeves

M.Lib, 1969

Sharon was named a Distinguished Alumna at the University of Minnesota, Morris in 2016.

Monte Steiger

M.Lib, 1969

Monte is traveling places such as Europe, Ukraine, Scotland, Philippines, India, and Tibet; gardening and taking care of his tree and bush collection; and surviving early onset old age in good health.

Mary Nickum

M.Lib, 1968

A retired librarian and project manager, Mary is now an author and editor. Her work focuses on science-related topics for children; her fictional account of a family forced to confront a chronic disease, Mom's Story: A Child Learns About MS, was published in 2013.
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Mary Levering

M.Lib, 1966

After working for the Library of Congress for 45 years in a variety of diverse positions and different departments, Mary retired as one of the Library's Senior Government Executives in 2011. Mary says: "Working at the Library of Congress with talented people and amazing collections from all over the world inspired me with a great love of travel, adventure and a thirst to learn about other cultures and countries. I have now visited 141 countries on all 7 continents. I just returned in December 2015 from my latest travel adventure on an expedition ship, visiting 7 remote island countries in the South Pacific, meeting local families, and SCUBA diving on pristine reefs. My goal is to visit all 193 independent countries in the world. At home [Maryland] in between my foreign trips, I practice yoga several days a week, am learning to speak Spanish, and volunteer for Chevy Chase at Home, helping older folks age in place."

Joan Tracy

M.Lib, 1965

Joan retired from Eastern Washington University in 1993, but she keeps up her interest in libraries by submitting recommendations for purchase to the EWU Library and by serving as chair of a book group at the Cheney Community Library. Her daughter is also a librarian, working at North Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene, ID. 

Maxine Amaral Braude

MLIS, 1963

Maxine is in her 11th year of retirement and continue to travel.  Her most recent trips include a transatlantic trip from Miami to Barcelona; the Rhone River; the Dalmation Coast;  Australia and New Zealand.

Joelle Lyons Everett

M.Lib, 1962

Joelle is a network facilitator for the Plexus Institute, finding speakers and facilitating conference calls and webinars with the goal of sharing good ideas that improve health quality and the patient experience. She has also written and published a book of poetry, Strange and Wonderful Things.