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Benjamin Riesenberg

MLIS, 2018

As of 2025 Benjamin left the UW Libraries at the end of April 2024 and started work as Digital Collections Metadata Librarian in the University of Oregon Libraries Digital Library Services unit on June 1, 2024. 

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Shalyn Rodriguez

MLIS, 2018

As of 2023, Shalyn was the Assistant Director of the New Lenox Public Library in New Lenox, IL.

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Saralyn Santos

Informatics, 2018

Saralyn started in the Human Centered Design and Engineering master's program this fall. She also recently started working as the STEM engagement coordinator at the University of Washington Pipeline Project, working with youth in rural and tribal communities to encourage them to study STEM and pursue higher education.

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Avanti Shah

MSIM, 2018

In 2021, Avanti reported she was promoted to staff data scientist at Walmart Global Tech: "Have a project under patent pending. Expecting a baby next month. It’s been a great year!"

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Anushree Shukla

Informatics, 2018

After graduation, Anushree attended the Grace Hopper conference, representing the iSchool and taking part in the HCI Reviewer Committee in Houston.

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Gosuddin Kamaruddin Siddiqi

MSIM, 2018

As of 2025, Gosuddin Kamaruddin was working at Microsoft, focused on NLP, ML and AI fields.

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Lauren Sullivan

MLIS, 2018

As of 2021, Lauren had recently moved back to her hometown of Elgin, Illinois, to become an adjunct librarian at Elgin Community College.

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Nancy Tran

Informatics, 2018

As of 2024, Nancy was a senior product designer at Carina, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization partnered with home care and child care unions, government entities, and home care agencies. She had recently led efforts to improve web accessibility at Carina through WCAG 2.0 conformance, and planning to get certified as a CPACC, WAS, and eventually CPWA through IAAP in the future.

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Jesse Van Hoy

MLIS, 2018

After spending six months at home with a newborn son, Jesse accepted a position as a content and research librarian with Echo Services and will be working on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Echo performs the bulk of the reference and research support service for Microsoft's employees.

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Michael Wagner

MLIS, 2018

In 2022, Michael entered his fourth year in Amazon’s Product Knowledge org and recently (December 2021) had been promoted to Ontologist II.

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Canopy Foundation makes $15M grant to establish UW Neurodiversity and Employment Institute

Monday, October 20, 2025
The Canopy Neurodiversity Foundation awarded a $15 million grant to the University of Washington Information School to support the launch of the UW Institute for Neurodiversity and Employment. The new institute will bring together leading...
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25 years in, Information School is more essential than ever

Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Twenty-five years ago, there were no smartphones or social media. Most of us had dial-up internet. We went to Blockbuster when we wanted to rent movies and read newspapers when we wanted to stay informed. Artificial intelligence was the...
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