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Ben Horvath
MLIS, 2019
As of 2020, Ben was working as a Reference Librarian with Highline College. He develops and teaches information literacy classes to students and is working on projects to revise parts of the library's collection to better reflect the diversity of the student body.
Matthew Hurley
MLIS, 2019
Matthew recently began working as a reference associate at South Hill Public Library in Puyallup.
Anna Hurwitz
MLIS, 2019
Anna celebrated graduation by traveling to Lithuania with her father to try to learn more about his family. She is now in a full-time, six-month contract position with Hansell Tierney as an assistant archivist at the Gates Archive.
Muhammad Hussain
Informatics, 2019
In 2021, Muhammad reported working at Salesforce as a technical architect.
Davis Huynh
Informatics, 2019
After graduating, Davis decided to take a short break and enjoy his last free summer, playing a lot of games and traveling to Korea. He now works at Liberty Mutual.
Beth Jarrell
MLIS, 2019
In 2023, Beth was promoted to Adult Services Coordinator at Sanibel Public Library in Sanibel, Florida. She was also named a member of the American Library Association's Emerging Leaders class of 2023 and was scheduled to co-chair a committee with the New Members Round Table in 2023 and 2024. She was also an interviewee in a forthcoming book by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, "The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians."
Shaarika Kaul
Informatics, 2019
As of 2023, Shaarika was an analytics leader for Visa’s Acceptance Solutions Marketing team. She leads a team of engineers to build analyses and views for data-driven decision making, and presents her insights to executives. She is also pursuing her MBA at the UW Foster School of Business.
Tiffany Ku
MSIM, 2019
As of 2021, Tiffany was working as a UX Researcher at Redfin, based in Seattle. Her work focuses investigating and building solutions to innovate the home buying experience.
Manasi Kulkarni
MSIM, 2019
As of 2025, Manasi changed their job from Amazon into another gaming company - Scopely. They are a Staff Data Scientist
working on the WWE Champions game. With the recent acquisiton of Niantic, they are now working on cross game
interaction between Pokémon Go and other Scopely games.
Frank Lim
MSIM, 2019
Frank is working as the director of cybersecurity for the U.S. Coast Guard at its Command, Control, and Communications Engineering Center in Portsmouth Va. He is working with Forrester Research to complete an in-depth study on the cyber issues and how to fix them in the next two years. He is also working on implementing a Model Based Systems Engineering practice to have a digital twin of the current systems in place.