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Jingyu Yang
Informatics, 2018
Jingyu is working at Microsoft in Redmond on a custom security tools team as a software engineer.
Andrea Zager
MLIS, 2018
Andrea is working as a K-5 school library media specialist in the Northshore School District.
Maxwell Zhou
Informatics, 2018
After graduation, Maxwell started at Visa as a penetration tester for mobile and IoT platforms. After a year, Maxwell moved to a cybersecurity firm as a senior cybersecurity consultant and now serves a variety of large organizations in the space.
Nicola Andrews
MLIS, 2017
Nicola began working as an NCSU Libraries Fellow at North Carolina State University. As a fellow, she will be providing reference and instruction services as part of the Learning Spaces & Services department, and also working on an initiative to research and increase diversity within academic libraries. Nicola has also been awarded a DLF HBCU Fellowship by the Digital Library Federation.
Nicole Arnold
MLIS, 2017
Nicole accepted a job offer from the University of California, Irvine, where she is the Research Librarian for Student Success and Instruction. She also serves as a liaison to the School of Education.
Dylan Babbs
Informatics, 2017
As of 2021, Dylan was working as a product designer at Uber.
Drew Before
Informatics, 2017
As of 2021, Drew was working as a lead front-end developer at Nintendo. He reported that he's working on rebuilding Nintendo.com from the ground up to support an integrated e-commerce store.
Alexander Bell-Towne
Informatics, 2017
Alexander is working as a software engineer at Square Inc. in New York City. He moved to New York in 2019 after spending a year working in Square's San Francisco office. His original employer, Weebly, was acquired by Square in May 2018.
Katrina Belton
MLIS, 2017
As of February 2020, Katrina was working as a preservation specialist with the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle. She was to receive the Jan Merrill-Oldham Professional Development Grant.
Sam Bender
Informatics, 2017
Sam started a fitness business based on a mobile app that he built and designed. As of 2022, the company had received another round of funding and was featured in Geekwire: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/qa-with-former-nfl-star-doug-baldwin-about-his-new-role-as-ceo-of-a-seattle-healthcare-startup/