The Alene Moris Women’s Center is historically significant to the University of Washington and the surrounding area. Its archival collections will one day be housed in Special Collections. I added to their repertoire of materials and gained experience with organizing their archival assets by completing oral history interviews with the current director of the Center to document personal stories of the Center's leadership. Additionally, I helped develop a finding aid for the collection. Through the addition of these oral histories and the finding aid, the collection will become more robust and accessible to the community for future research.

In collaboration with UW PhD candidate, Os Keyes, and the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections, the Dayton/Hunt Collection preserves and provides access to materials about the University of Washington Gender Identity Clinic. By processing the physical and digital materials, creating a Google-indexed finding aid, and sharing news about the collection at a Special Collections Student Worker Poster Presentation event, future researchers will now have access to information on a foundational clinic in the history of transgender medicine. With this collection, people will learn that transgender people have been receiving gender-affirming medical care for decades within the United States.

Team Cherry Balls worked alongside Arena Sports to modernize and migrate their data pipeline to a new system. Previously, their data services utilized a less-efficient platform that led to inaccurate reports and laborious report building. The new system utilizes Fivetran, a cloud based data movement service, and connects to Microsoft’s Power BI, allowing for more consistent synchronizations and easier access to data. With our new workflow, we can now provide easier and more accurate dashboards to help various stakeholders of the firm gauge their operational health.

In order to increase patron engagement within the Art Library and build outreach guidelines for future projects, I planned, advertised, and executed three different events and created an outreach toolkit for the library. I collaborated with UW Special Collections and a student-run literary journal called Bricolage to engage patrons not familiar with the library and advertise our collections and resources. This project allowed the Art Library to build lasting relationships with different organizations on campus as well as learn best practices for event planning and outreach.

Librarians manually keyword large datasets to enhance information findability in IHME’s catalog. Automating this process could significantly streamline the cataloging workflow. This project documents data characteristics of IHME’s collection to inform an automatic solution. Research revealed that an auto-keywording tool which could process ALL data types would require large investment into a sophisticated computational linguistics solution. This project delivers a practical solution focused on a few specific data types to immediately save Librarians hours of work per data set. The project also provides documentation as lasting evidence for future development and/or funding of a larger Language Learning Model project.

Adolescent alcohol use poses serious health risks, often due to poor awareness of safe drinking practices. BACtracker targets this challenge with a web application designed for young adults, which tracks Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) and integrates educational tools to foster informed choices about alcohol consumption. Features include a self-care guide, resources on hazardous alcohol combinations, an emergency contact system, and an emotional tracker to correlate feelings with intake levels. This innovative approach not only educates users but also actively contributes to reducing alcohol-related incidents, enhancing safety and public health for young adults.

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a neurological condition that affects executive function, time management, and motivation. Our project Bearable tackles to help individuals with ADHD break down tasks into manageable chunks, improve focus, productivity, and symptom management one task at a time. In the lives of others, Bearable compared to other task management applications tackle feelings of overwhelmingness by showing one task at a time and integrates multiple different API’s (Application programming interface) such as Google Calendar and Spotify to minimize the need of swapping to different tabs. Bearable intends to boost productivity while minimizing distractions.

Bike Works is a non-profit that offers community-focused bike maintenance services. One service is a bike repair class, which students can pay for via “work-trade” by committing volunteer hours instead of paying money. The current system used to track these hours requires excessive manual entry because it lacks a centralized database platform and automation capabilities. To address this issue, we simplified the record keeping process for “work-trade” tracking using two no-code platforms called Softr and Airtable. This allows Bike Works staff to put more time into services that will benefit their local community.

This project was a pilot for collaborative work between Special Collections’ Book Arts & Rare Books and University Archives curatorial areas to accession and steward archival materials pertaining to book and literary arts, beginning with Broken Moon Press (1982-1997)—a small independent trade press publishing international literature. After labor-intensive inventorying, arrangement, description, preservation activities, and records creation, 45 boxes (47.3 linear feet) of materials were accessioned into Special Collections. A comprehensive finding aid was created to guide user access to this now publicly available collection encompassing the Press’s work, the underrepresented creators they collaborated with, and a broader independent press network.