Rachel Clarke

PhD, 2016

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

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.

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.

James Logan

MLIS, 2016

James is working as a library assistant at Kitsap Regional Library.

Crystal Miles

MLIS, 2016

Crystal landed her dream job as a branch manager/librarian for the Grass Valley Branch of the Nevada County Libraries in Nevada County, California. It's a rural library in the heart of historic Gold Country.

Greta Pittenger

MLIS, 2016

Greta accepted a temporary Librarian I position with NPR's Research, Archives, & Data Strategy.

Emily Whitacre

MLIS, 2016

Emily recently was hired at GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO (formerly YBP Library Services) as a Cataloging Bibliographer.

Megan Carlin

MLIS, 2015

Megan is a Youth Services Librarian at Kitsap Regional Library, specializing in teens and young adults. Her Capstone research focused on makerspaces transferred directly into a career with her Capstone sponsor. She is dedicated to library services that promote community empowerment and active learning.
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Nikhil Devlekar

MSIM, 2015

Nikhil is working at Amazon as a UX Designer II on the Prime Design team.

Rebecca Greer

MLIS, 2015

Rebecca recently accepted a position at University of California, Santa Barbara, as the Library Instruction Program Coordinator.

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.

Alpha DeLap

MLIS, 2013

Alpha is the teacher-librarian and media specialist for grades 2-8 at the St. Thomas School in Medina, WA.

Bryan Dosono

INFO, 2013

Brian is a third-year doctoral student in Information Science and Technology at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. He was appointed as E3 Ambassador for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and serves as Technology Consultant for the National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association.
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Eli Gandour-Rood

MLIS, 2013

Eli has worked as the Science Liaison Librarian for the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA since 2013. He served on the 2014 organizing committee for Science Boot Camp West, a regional conference for science librarians, which had its highly successful 2nd annual meeting in July 2014, hosted on the UW campus.

Jennifer Gonzalez

MLIS, 2013

Jennifer is a Librarian / Legal Information Analyst with the Law Library of Congress and successfully coordinated a remote metadata internship over the summer with 70 law and library students, including several UW iSchool students.

Claudia Haines

MLIS, 2013

Claudia is the Youth Services Librarian at the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska. She recently co-authored the white paper "Media Mentorship in Libraries Serving Youth" for the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC).
 

Del Hazeley

MSIM, 2013

As IT Manager for UW Police, Del is assigned to the department's Technical PM role for the new building coming online in summer 2016; providing an opportunity to put a significant amount of MSIM course theory into practice.

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 2016, Renato transitioned from the the Exhibits Department at the San Diego Natural History Museum to its Research Library and Special Collections. He is now the Digital Resources Librarian for the museum's Biodiversity Research Center of the Californias, heading the media licensing division.

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.

James Rosenzweig

MLIS, 2011

In January 2015, James left his position as Education and History Librarian at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago to return to the Pacific Northwest, taking over the position of Education Librarian at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA.

Andrew Smirnov

INFO, 2011

Andrew is currently a Technical Solutions Engineer at Catchpoint, a web performance analytics startup based out of New York.
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Rishi Talwar

INFO, 2011

Rishi is the co-founder of Bottega8, a software consulting company.
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Cathy (Zegelin) Wagner

MLIS, 2011

In October 2016, Cathy began working as Senior Cooperative & Instructional Programs Instructor at the Library of Congress.

Ephrem Yemru

INFO, 2011

After almost five years in the consulting industry, Ephrem recently joined Nordstrom Inc. as an Information Security Senior Engineer. Within information security practice, Ephrem specifically focuses on Identity and Access Management.
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Audrey Barbakoff

MLIS, 2010

In 2013, Audrey was admitted to the ALA’s Emerging Leaders program. The program enables newer library workers from across the country to participate in problem-solving work groups, network with peers, gain an inside look into ALA structure, and have an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity. Audrey was also recognized as a 2013 Library Journal Mover & Shaker for her work as an adult services librarian at the Bainbridge Island Library branch of the Kitsap Regional Library.

Lee Deitesfeld

MLIS, 2010

Lee works as a Senior Metadata Librarian at ProQuest.

Braxton Ehle

INFO, 2010

Braxton is currently with the security program at Tableau Software, approaching his work from a data-driven perspective and using that data to visually demonstrate its effectiveness at reducing risk. He and Informatics alum (class of 2011) Osman Surkatty host the information security podcast Sound Security Podcast. It focuses on how information security teams can better protect their organizations by reviewing recent security news articles and shamelessly using them to talk about the aspects of a good security program. 
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Mandy Fonville

MLIS, 2010

Mandy uses her background in healthcare to work as a User Research Engineer for a medical device company.

Alex King

INFO, 2010

Alex has been part of many different businesses at Google, including Ads, Google Fiber, and Google[x]. He is currently a Product Manager on the Google Wifi team, working to build a wireless router that people love.

Christopher Lam

INFO, 2010

Chris is a designer at Mozilla working on Firefox OS. He was previously a designer at Amazon, working on interaction and visual design for products such as Amazon Prime Gifting, Amazon Cloud Player for Samsung Devices and Amazon Cloud Player for mobile.
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Carlos Marin Burgos

INFO, 2010

Carlos works at Amazon Web Services as a UX Designer.
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Shawn McGaff

INFO, 2010

Shawn is running two companies. One is a digital marketing agency and the other is a content marketing and media production company. They build websites, run ad campaigns, provide writing, videos, and photos and guide companies as they bring products to market. He just started a new service of using drones to provide aerial photos and videos.
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Kathleen Monks

MLIS, 2010

In 2014, Kathleen became Head of Instruction Services at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Kathleen was also named a 2013 ALA Emerging Leader, and worked from 2012-2013 as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID.

Thomas Ng

INFO, 2010

Thomas works as a software developer at Microsoft IT, working on Microsoft's PKI systems. He joined Microsoft IT in July 2010 as a program manager through the APEX program, and after his graduation from the program in July 2012, moved into his current role as a software developer.

Benjamin Tucker

MLIS, 2010

In 2012, Ben began working at the Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound in Tacoma as their Business, Economics, and Social Sciences Liaison Librarian.

Kathy Weigert

MLIS, 2010

Kathy is the children's department manager at West Bank Regional Library in Harvey, Louisiana.

Jana Lu Williams

MLIS, 2010

Jana Lu Williams completed her three-year review process to attain full tenure as faculty librarian at Walla Walla Community College. In addition to serving on its curriculum and outcomes assessment committees, she recently started mentoring honors students in their capstone projects. She is thoroughly enjoying her new career as an instructional librarian.

Cindy (Bedi) Ralph

MLIS, 2009

Cindy works for the provincial government of British Columbia as a library consultant with the Libraries and Literacy branch of the British Columbia Ministry of Education.

Adam Argo

INFO, 2009

In 2014 Adam started at zulily as a Senior Software Engineer on the Personalization team, working at the intersection between machine learning and high-performance, low-latency software engineering.

Ray Barnhart

INFO, 2009

Since 2011, Ray has worked as a web developer at POSSIBLE.

Scott Dalessandro

MLIS, 2009

In 2014, Scott began work as an Associate Program Officer for Postsecondary Success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle.

From 2009-2013, Scott worked as a communications associate with the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) project through the Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Pretoria, South Africa. Scott traveled extensively throughout Africa during his first year on the project, and in 2011 he and his wife relocated to Pretoria, where he managed regional HIV prevention knowledge sharing activities funded by USAID's Regional HIV/AIDS Program.

Maura Hadaway

MLIS, 2009

Maura is now the interim Associate Dean of the Ludden Library & Learning Commons at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Heather Lunceford

MLIS, 2009

Heather is a Patent and Trademark paralegal at Baker Hostetler in Seattle.

Zola Mumford

MLIS, 2009

In June 2014, Zola was hired by North Seattle College as a tenure-track reference librarian. She works as a liaison to the Art, Humanities, International Programs, ESL and Basic & Transitional Studies divisions.

Earlier in 2014, Zola joined a fascinating group of presenters discussing Afrofuturism at the Northwest African American Museum and curated film programs about the Black presence in science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction at both the Experience Music Project and the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival. Zola has also worked as a curator at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute since 2003, and has researched and published HistoryLink.org essays about Seattle's Washington Hall, the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, and artist Norie Sato.

Kristi Palmer

MSIM, 2009

Kristi recently moved to Portland, OR, and is actively seeking a position in business (systems) analysis.

Deborah Turner

PhD, 2009

In 2014, Deborah was awarded an Early Career Development research grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The grant supports her project “The Oral Present, Urban Library Services, and the Underserved,” which directly builds on her doctoral work. Her research sites include the Cleveland Public Library, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Seattle Public Library.

Winford Dixon

MSIM, 2009

Winford is a manager with Deloitte in San Francisco in Enterprise Risk Services.

Sueng-yon Yu

MSIM, 2009

Seung-yon works for T-Mobile as a Commissions Analyst.

Lynly Beard

MLIS, 2008

Lynly is working as a Library Technician III at the UW Health Sciences Library.

Timothy Chen

INFO, 2008

Timothy is a lead distributed systems engineer at Mesosphere, a startup in San Francisco, where he works on the datacenter operating system.

Dustin Hodge

INFO, 2008

In 2014, Dustin returned to UW! He works as a UX Interaction Designer at the UW Office of Research Information Services.
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Mike Paulsmeyer

MSIM, 2008

Mike works as a Manager at Logic20/20, where he has worked since 2010.

Miriam Rigby

MLIS, 2008

Miriam is an Associate Professor and Librarian at the University of Oregon Libraries, where she was worked since 2008. She co-edited The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Perceptions and Presentations of Information Work (ACRL Press, 2014), which is available for purchase at the ALA store.
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Destinee Sutton

MLIS, 2008

Destinee works as a children's librarian at the Burien branch of the King County Library System. She was elected to serve on the 2016 Newbery Award Selection Committee.

Michelle Young

MLIS, 2008

Since June 2014, Michelle has been working as a children's librarian at the Lihue Public Library (Hawaii State Public Library System). She also serves on the Nene Award Committee, the Hawaii state award for children's fiction written for grades 4-6.

Amy Donahue

MLIS, 2007

Amy has been working in the medical librarian field since 2008, but she's leaving the world of official medical librarianship (at least for now) to go back to school full time. In 2014, she started at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to get a bachelor's degree in biology, which will provide the prerequisites needed for admission into the two-year genetic counseling program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (which is one of the oldest programs in the country). She's also going to work on getting a Health Care Informatics certificate while at UWM, and then hopefully combine all her clinical and information interests into a whole new career.

Amy has returned to school to get a BS in Biological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She will soon be applying to genetic counseling master degree programs around the country with the goal of matriculating into one in fall 2016. She hopes to combine her clinical, bioinformatics, and information science interests into a new career involving direct patient care. When she has time, she spends time with her spouse and cats in her house in Milwaukee, and sometimes still plays ultimate.
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Ivy Hammond

MLIS, 2007

Ivy is working as adjunct faculty for Brigham Young University-Idaho. She is teaching an introduction Library Research Skills course.

Benjamin Jackson

MSIM, 2007

In 2011, Ben joined Juniper Networks in Sunnyvale, CA, as Vice President of Information Experience. Ben leads a multi-disciplined information organization with company-wide accountability for technical documentation, localization, content authoring and publishing tool development (PM/Dev/Test) and engineering training.

Brendan Ribera

INFO, 2007

Brendan creates tech startups in Seattle at Madrona Venture Labs. Previously, he founded PaperKarma (acquired in 2013).
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Reed Strege

MLIS, 2007

Reed is the Director of Library Services at Braille Institute of America, headquartered in Los Angeles. The Institute's mission is to eliminate barriers to a fulfilling life caused by blindness and severe sight loss.

Kevin Wong

INFO, 2007

In 2013, Kevin was promoted to Director of Product Design at Livefyre, a growing startup located in the heart of the Bay Area that creates next-generation real-time experiences for publishers and marketers. He leads a team of visual and interaction designers who help the business by defining and building all of their products on the platform. Kevin is also an advisor for Groove, another startup, which focuses on enterprise sales enablement by integrating Salesforce data with Google Apps.

Meliha Yetisgen

PhD, 2007

Meliha is an Associate Professor in the department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington.
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Scott Daniels

MLIS, 2006

Scott is celebrating his 10-year anniversary at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.  He is now Reference Services Manager.

Reese (Coffin) Evenson

MLIS, 2006

In 2013, Reese began work as the Corporate Records Administrator for Johns Manville in Denver, CO. She also has been accepted to sit for the Certified Records Manager exam administered by the Institute of Certified Records Managers.

Zerrin Hejazi

MSIM, 2006

Zerrin is a Senior Project Manager at the Boeing Company while pursuing  a Master of Science in Enterprise Project Management degree.

Benjamin Johnson

MLIS, 2006

Benjamin works as a Lead Metadata Librarian at ProQuest.

Kenny Lu

MSIM, 2006

In 2014, Kenny received his MBA from the UW Foster School of Business. He currently works for Avvo as a DevOps Engineer.

Marjorie Ann Reeves

MLIS, 2006

In 2013 Marjorie published her second book, From Paradise to Hell, about a family in Alabama during the struggles of the 19th century. It can be ordered from iUniverse Publishing and other booksellers .

After graduation, Marjorie moved from Washington first to Arizona, and then settled back in her home state of Alabama, where she is very involved with historical groups and preservation.

Laila Almounaier

INFO, 2005

Laila spent nine years working in Product and Technology at Nordstrom, most recently as Senior Manager of Mobile Apps. In the past three years, she was focused on developing a shopping app. In September, she accepted a position in Product Management for Amazon Restaurants.

Evangelina Cunningham

MLIS, 2005

Evangelina was recently hired to a tenure track position at Yakima Valley Community College as a Faculty Reference Librarian.

Nicole Gustine

MLIS, 2005

Nicole graduated with a JD from the University of Washington School of Law, and passed the Washington State bar exam in 2014. She works in the Office of General Counsel at the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) as the WSBA's Public Records Officer.

Elroy Largo

MSIM, 2005

Elroy is in the MBA program at Redlands University in CA, and works with AT&T Wireless.

Joe Marquez

MLIS, 2005

Joe works as the Web Services Librarian at Reed College in Portland, OR. He completed his MBA from Portland State University in 2014, where he has an appointment as an adjunct teaching in the School of Business. In 2015 he co-authored two articles: one for Weave about implementing a service design methodology in assessing library services and the other for Information Today about taking a strategic approach towards IT management.

Joe's book "Library Service Design: A LITA Guide to Holistic Assessment, Insight, and Improvement" was published in June 2016. The book details how to use a service design methodology in a library setting.

Stacy Prest

MLIS, 2005

Stacy has worked for the Walla Walla Community College Library since 1990, and in 2012 was appointed as Director of Library Services after a year of interim duties. In 2013, under her leadership the library received the national Association of College and Research Libraries Award of Excellence for Community College Libraries Stacy also serves as the chair of WALNET, the Walla Walla library consortium.

Agueda Sanchez

MSIM, 2005

Agueda spent 2013 working for Nike in Beaverton, OR and traveling to China to launch the Nike.com/China website. Agueda writes, "it was a great experience learning about China and helping Nike optimize end-to-end e-commerce processes. Now I'm back in Seattle working for Amazon, supporting the continuous growth of its platform for third-party sellers."

Agueda also sits on the MSIM Advisory Board.
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Karen Semyan

MSIM, 2005

Karen is a Senior Project Manager at Moz, an inbound marketing SaaS (software as a service) company.

Samantha Starmer

MLIS, 2005

In January 2014, Samantha began work in New York City at Ralph Lauren as a Vice President, Digital Product Management. Samantha also sits on the MSIM Advisory Board.

Genevieve Williams

MLIS, 2005

In mid-2015, Genevieve began serving a year as president of the ACRL Washington State chapter.

Kaijsa Calkins

MLIS, 2004

Kaijsa is now Head of Research & Instruction Services and Coordinator of Liaisons at University of Wyoming Libraries.

Tzu-Jing (TJ) Kao

MLIS, 2004

After two and half years working at Yale University Library as the Chinese Technical Services Librarian, TJ moved back to the West Coast in December 2015. He is now the Original Cataloging and Metadata Team Leader and the Asian Studies Librarian at Claremont Colleges Library in Southern California.

Paula Land

MSIM, 2004

In 2011, Paula, already the founder and principal consultant at Strategic Content, co-founded Content Insight, a software startup. Content Insight recently released its first product, the Content Analysis Tool (CAT), which creates automated content inventories.

In 2014, Paula published Content Audits and Inventories: A Handbook (XML Press, October 2014).
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Nicholas Netzel

MLIS, 2004

Nic moved from the Baltimore area to Portland, Oregon, just over a year ago. He dabbled with changing careers to web design/development, but got a job as the Librarian at Central Catholic High School in Portland.
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Tom Rhoades

MLIS, 2004

After spending time working in Canada, Tom moved back to the U.S. and now works in Silicon Valley at Guidewire Software as a Senior Curriculum Developer, writing training materials as well as building training environment and hands-on exercises. He's worked in the software/tech industry since graduation, and highly recommends the training and technology education field for MLIS and MSIM graduates.

Jason Tabert

INFO, 2004

Jason is the Website Optimization Manager at Tableau Software. Tableau helps people see and understand their data. Jason owns the web analytics and testing platform and focuses on driving increased customer engagement and lead generation. His prior experience ranges from working with local non-profits to consulting for Fortune 500 companies.

James Cooper

MSIM, 2003

From 2008-2012, James was the Chief Information Officer at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. He was hired to oversee the design and construction of their new campus, with the goal of building the most high-tech and green law school in the country. The project planning included a virtualized data center (VMWare) and a goal of moving their 300 desktop computers to run off a private cloud, reducing the volume of toxic metals needing recycling and the amount of electricity consumed. In 2011, James was honored with the Cox Business Exemplary Award, one of San Diego Magazine's Top Tech Exec Awards, for both his work building the physical campus infrastructure and the project's environmental commitment.

Doug Duncan

MSIM, 2003

The grandsons finally got to them, and in July 2014 Doug and his wife moved to Madison, WI to be closer to their family. Thanks to the wonders of technology (and his MSIM-based skills), Doug is continuing his job with Seattle University as Associate University Counsel, working remotely full time. He advises that, "for you potential remote workers: save your marriage and rent a small office. As my wife and I independently concluded, I need a place to go during the day."

Nicole (Elger) Maclean

MLIS, 2003

After seven years at The Seattle Times, Nicole joined Getty Images in April 2014 as Director of User Experience Design.

Danielle Miller

MLIS, 2003

Danielle is a member of the Working Team for the revision of the 2011 Standards and Guidelines of Service for the Library of Congress Network of Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (revision supported by a grant from the Library of Congress and administered by ASCLA).
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Karl Nelson

MSIM, 2003

Karl became the Chief Operating Officer of the K-12 OER Collaborative, a nonprofit creating comprehensive, high-quality, open educational resources (OER) supporting Mathematics and English Language Arts aligned with state standards.
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Laura Simeon

MLIS, 2003

Laura has worked as the Diversity Coordinator and Learning Commons Director at the Open Window School in Bellevue since 2003. After being awarded a grant from the Swedish Institute, she spent time in the summer of 2013 researching race and gender in contemporary Swedish picture books. Laura also researched and helped edit the book Parenting without Borders: Surprising Lessons Parents Around the World Can Teach Us by Dr. Christine Gross-Loh (Avery, 2013).
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Sarah Wakefield

MLIS, 2003

In 2015, Sarah took a job as Head Librarian of Osaka International School in Osaka, Japan.
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Jamie Balducci

MLIS, 2002

Jamie was recently promoted to the position of Analytics Business Partner in the Business Intelligence department of Group Health Cooperative, and will soon become Kaiser Permanente Washington.  Jamie is leading a team of Senior Business Intelligence Analysts ("Data Extroverts"). 

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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Catherine Haras

MLIS, 2002

Catherine Haras is senior director of the Center for Effective Teaching and Learning at California State University, and serves as a Distinguished Teaching & Learning Adviser with the American Council on Education (ACE) to research benchmarks for excellent and scalable faculty development. This work aligns with ACE’s larger student success agenda, of which effective teaching is a critical component.

Takahiro Hisada

INFO, 2002

Takahiro has been working for Google for the past 2.5 years, and relocated to the company's Bay Area headquarters in 2015.

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.

Jonell Lee

MLIS, 2002

Jonell and her husband Christopher, also a UW alumnus, welcomed Ava Lee into their family in July 2012.

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.
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Christopher Kerns

MLIS, 2001

Christopher is the Library Systems Manager for the Boeing Company's corporate library.

Jen Stutesman

MLIS, 2001

In 2014, Jen returned to Walla Walla Community College, now working as the Reference Librarian. She also has some Collection Development and Instruction duties.

Previously, Jen spent seven years at the University of Alaska Fairbanks as the Manager of Circulation, Interlibrary Loan, and Media.

Lola Estelle

MLIS, 2000

Lola became Head of Information and Digital Services at the Bellingham Public Library in April 2016.

Cassandra Kvenild

MLIS, 2000

Cass is currently serving as Interim Associate Dean at the University of Wyoming Libraries. She is co-author (with Melissa Bowles-Terry, UNLV) of the book "Classroom Assessment Techniques for Librarians," published by ACRL Press in 2015.

Anne Turner

MLIS, 2000

Anne is a faculty member in the University of Washington's Department of Health Services, School of Public Health with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, School of Medicine. Her research focus is public health informatics. Her work includes a research project funded through 2016 by the National Library of Medicine to investigate the use of statistical machine translation for improving access to multilingual health materials in public health. The five-year project is a collaboration with Katrin Kirchhoff, an associate professor in the UW Department of Electrical Engineering.

Marie Bellotti

MLIS, 1999

Marie works as a cataloger at the Eugene Public Library.

Frederick Brown

MLIS, 1999

Frederick is an independent historian based in Seattle and has written histories for the National Park Service. His new book, "The City is More Than Human: An Animal History of Seattle," was recently published by the University of Washington Press.
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Kari Costello

MLIS, 1999

Kari works with foster kids as a Case Aide for Community and Family Services Foundation.

Tammy Siebenberg

MLIS, 1999

Tammy was promoted to Director of Library & Media Services at Yakima Valley Community College in May 2015.

Zoe Holbrooks

MLIS, 1998

In 2012, Zoe was accepted into the University of Washington's Nonprofit Management Certificate program and plans to establish a non-profit organization based on a project that she and her iSchool colleagues developed in 1998. The Talking Leaves Book Giveaway Project collects and distributes books and other materials to Native communities throughout the nation.

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.