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Hollie Bellinger
MLIS, 2021
After graduation, Hollie moved to New Mexico to work as the Government Information Librarian at Eastern New Mexico University.
Andrey Butenko
Informatics, 2021
As of 2021, Andrey was working as a software developer at Amazon Web Services. He was also volunteering as a Python instructor with the Microsoft TEALS Program.
Eric Cohen
Informatics, 2021
As of 2022, Eric was pursuing a Master of Science in Technology Management at Columbia University in the City of New York. He co-authored a recently published book, "Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing Community and Competition." He also recently finished his VRTality project with libraries, which can be found at vrtality.org .
Karli Cotton
MLIS, 2021
As of 2023, Karli was working as the Online Learning Librarian at the University of Montana.
Hannah Edlund
MLIS, 2021
Hannah started working at Rice University’s Fondren Library, the Kelley Center for Government Information, in February 2022. The Kelley Center is home to Rice and Fondren’s Federal Depository Library Program and Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC). She is the Government Information Librarian, and most importantly, the PTRC representative. Hannah is primarily responsible for the main Fondren Instagram account and the Kelley Center social media channels.
Greyson Fields
Informatics, 2021
As of 2024, Greyson was working as a product manager at DocuSign, building frictionless commerce experiences and expanding its product-led growth motions.
Bri Gabel
Museology, 2021
In 2023, Bri reports that she moved to Sitka and is the first Sustainability Coordinator for the City and Borough of Sitka and the only full-time sustainability professional for a municipality in Alaska. She helps run the city's Sustainability Commission and secured a 12- to 18-month in-depth technical assistance award through the DOEs Energy Transition Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) to develop a Community Renewable Energy Strategy. It is a largely community-led project to help co-develop Sitka's energy future.
George Gu
Informatics, 2021
George completed a master's degree at Cornell University in May 2023 and returned to Washington to work as a full-time UI/UX Designer at Xemelgo.
Padma Gundapaneni
Informatics, 2021
As of March 2022, Padma was working as a Data Scientist at T-Mobile and pursuing a master’s degree in Data Science from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Locksley Kolakowski
Informatics, 2021
After graduating from the Informatics program, Locksley TA'd for INFO 200 for one more quarter. Then she joined Accenture as a Software Architect Analyst. She's starting the online MSIM program this fall with her two siblings, who are also Informatics alumni. Her twin sister is working at Avanade and her brother at Amazon.