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Erik Thomas-Hommer
Informatics, 2021
As of 2021, Erik was working as a Software Developer at Amazon while trying to start a hospitality SaaS company on the side.
Abigail Tish
MSIM, 2021
As of 2023, Abigail was doing cyber/risk consulting at Deloitte.
Julie Varee
MLIS, 2021
After graduating in 2021, Julie was offered a position in the library & archives at the Anchorage Museum. As the Community Outreach Archivist, Julie is helping to ensure the archives include individuals and groups from historically marginalized communities in the story the museum tells about Anchorage and Alaska. Part of Julie's outreach work is engaging a more diverse group of community members in programs, exhibitions and archival collections. In addition, Julie continues to learn about processing large and small collections and assisting with research requests.
Nicholas Xu
Informatics, 2021
As of 2021, Nicholas was working as a program manager at Microsoft Azure Edge + Platform.
Xinyi Yang
MSIM, 2021
As of 2023, Xinyi was working as a big data engineer at AWS.
Wenpei Zhang
MSIM, 2021
As of 2023, Wenpei was working at an asset management firm in New York City.
Veronica Adair
MLIS, 2020
As of 2025, Veronica was the Student Engagement Librarian at BYU Idaho. They started this job in June of 2021 and also got married in November of 2021 and had their first child, a girl, in May of 2024.
Jose Alarcon Santos
Informatics, 2020
As of 2025, Jose was helping out their community.
Emily Bajet
MSIM, 2020
As of 2023, Emily was a senior technical program manager at IMDb. She helped launch the 'IMDb What to Watch' Fire TV app, which sorts through IMDb's 12 million shows and movies to help customers find what to watch (aka a streaming guide librarian). She also works on personalization features for IMDb's mobile apps, website and Fire TV app using machine learning / data science.
Aric Bishop
MLIS, 2020
As of 2024, Aric accepted a position at the West Des Moines Public Library as a Circulation Assistant in West Des Moines, IA as of April 22, 2024. He was also working toward his Doctorate of Education in Leadership at Drake University in Des Monies, IA with an anticipated graduation date of May 2026.