Current Students

Christine M. Moeller

Christine worked as an academic librarian for seven years prior to joining the PhD Program at the iSchool, primarily working as an instructional design librarian. Their own experiences and the experiences of their colleagues led them to researching barriers to workplace inclusion experienced by disabled academic librarians, including resilience narratives, stereotypes, and professionalism discourse. Building on this research, they are now investigating the experiences of neurodivergent librarians with the goal of making libraries and eventually other workplaces (like academia itself) more inclusive of neurodivergent people like themself. They earned their MLIS from the University of Iowa and completed additional coursework on instructional design at the University of Wisconsin – Stout.

 

Previous Students

Milly Romeijn-Stout

Milly recently received her PhD from The University of Washington Information School. She holds an MLIS from the University of Washington, and has served as a Children’s Services Librarian with the Sno-isle library system. She has participated in autism, library science, and early literacy studies at the University of Washington as both a student researcher and a research coordinator. Her current research focuses on how libraries can address the needs of the autism community.

 

 

Tara Lanphar

Tara is a graduate of the MLIS program at the University of Washington Information School. She worked for 3 years in a public library as a Public Services Assistant and has recently transitioned into a focus on information architecture. She is working as Taxonomy Associate at Udemy and is passionate about helping create user-focused data design solutions. She is also involved in neurodiversity research as a Graduate Research Student Assistant for Dr. Hala Annabi.

 

Lex Van Horn

Lex is a recently graduated MLIS student from the University of Washington Information School. In addition to their work as a Graduate Research Student Assistant with the Neurodiversity Initiative, they spent two years as a co-coordinator for the MLIS mentorship program, iSTAMP (iSchool Student-to-Alumni Mentorship Program). Outside of their library work, they are a member of the Poulsbo club of Rotary International, where they often volunteer their time. Their passion is serving the information needs of marginalized communities.