The Washington State Library pays over $400,000 each year to provide LinkedIn Learning to library patrons. LinkedIn Learning is an incredible online e-learning platform which provides access to courses. However, in light of "freely available" online learning platforms appearing, the state legislator has begun questioning the costs required to maintain the LinkedIn Learning partnership. As a result, the Washington State Library was asked to create a report and give it to the legislator outlining and evaluating the freely available alternatives out there, and comparing them to LinkedIn Learning. I made the report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EdWQBl5gUpw5J8ovHoocsYqOsdRi5dcysEiWRh49H1s

Many people have piles of papers and photos that they would like to digitize, but they don't know where to start. Family Document Digitization is a website that takes users step-by-step through the process of digitizing, storing, and sharing their letters, photos, diaries, and more. The website features blog posts on how to digitize, store, and share their documents using accessible equipment, free applications, and household objects. The project sponsor is Cook Memorial Library in La Grande, Oregon, a rural public library serving users of all ages.

Fiction subject tagging in libraries is largely ineffectual for a variety of reasons—e.g. a lack of robust, open-access vocabularies, the difficulty and time commitment of assessing the contents of fiction, and unsuitable software. In partnership with Fiction Filters: Taxonomy for Adult Fiction, who created our core vocabulary of tags, we created a website in which users tag previously read books in subject areas such as character traits and tropes, using their own or pre-existing tags. This gives power to readers to highlight what they find most important and appealing about books, browse by personal interests, and filter out unwanted content.

Fiction subject tagging in libraries is largely ineffectual for a variety of reasons—e.g. a lack of robust, open-access vocabularies, the difficulty of assessing the contents of unread fiction, and unsuitable software. In partnership with the Fiction Filters: Crowdsourcing Website group—who created the host website—we created a core vocabulary of tags in subject areas such as character traits and tropes, which users can add to and use to tag previously read books. This gives power to readers to highlight what they find most important and appealing about books, browse by personal interests, and filter out unwanted content.

Young people in college often have problems with debt management, don't have access to financial classes, and set fewer financial goals. To address these problems, we created a mobile application that connects low-income young adults to pro-bono financial advisors for individualized support. Users will be able to track their financial progress at their own pace and get one-on-one coaching with their advisors regarding their goals or concerns. Our app will help more young adults learn how to manage their credit and debt, and create the habit of setting financial goals that fit their lifestyle in the long term.

The Flipgrid team at Microsoft believes that a healthy online learning platform is the combination of the sense of safety and the level of engagement from its users on the site. Using PowerBI as a vessel to track Flipgrid’s platform content and user activity, our mission was to help the Flipgrid team refine how they measure the health of their platform. The insights generated from this report will support Flipgrid’s effort to create platform policies and feature enhancements that make the online platform a safe environment for all users as well as a source of good connections and healthy experiences.

This project utilizes programs, an online resource guide, and an EduKit to strengthen environmental literacy and love for the outdoors in Central Delaware. These successful programs have resulted in an enthusiastic, constant attendance, and the crafts and stories from the 'Wednesdays in the Woods' programs have inspired great passion around the environment for both kids and families.

Northwest Harvest's Learning and Impact (L&I) department is focused on the implementation of equity-focused systems to fight food injustice. To that end, it's critical for them to maintain comprehensive, transparent records of their community partnerships, with an emphasis on tracking information that can be used to foster growth of programs and partnerships through the lens of antiracism. In order to help realize that system, I conducted a departmental needs assessment centered around Salesforce data fields, then presented a compilation of my findings and data field requests to Northwest Harvest’s Salesforce administrator, and we established a rough timeline for implementation.

Our project picks up from the 2021 project, Funds to Vote, a website focused on creating transparency between American voters and politicians’ funding. American politics is full of jargon, confusing statistics, and an overwhelming amount of information, especially for the average voter. We improved the UX/UI to create a more user-friendly experience, modernized the old codebase, and added the “Congressperson Comparison Tool” feature to the website. We did this in hopes of helping American voters make more informed decisions regardless of background in the political sphere and empowering them to vote for politicians who truly align with their values.