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We’re a bunch of friends and colleagues who volunteer our time to create and run a non-profit event for the information community – InfoCamp!

We spend some of our precious free time organizing InfoCamp because we strongly believe it’s a valuable event for our professional community. We want InfoCamp to bring together a diverse crowd of people in the information community, broadly defined. Our aim is to create an affordable, fun weekend in which everyone who attends can actively participate, learn, network, and contribute – and hopefully stay connected afterward. Here are the people who make this a reality:

Aaron

Aaron Louie is an Associate Director of User Experience at ZAAZ, where he advises clients on web strategy, draws fancy diagrams, and scrawls on the whiteboard while gesturing wildly. In past years, he chaired ASIS&T PNW, starting up the IA/UX monthly meetups in Seattle. Aaron has far too many hobbies, which include urban farming, karaoke, video games, and being the Creative Director of Yeti Arts.

Andy

Andrew Szydlowski is entranced by technology, fascinated in human behavior, and loves to study the intersection of the two. Andrew has recently worked in various environments architecting, designing and putting together websites and apps for government orgs and businesses. In addition to InfoCamp planning, he is an Emergency Librarian, an officer for ASIS&T PNW and SLA PNW, and can oft be found crooning in various South Seattle karaoke saloons.

Joshua

Joshua Walker knocked around libraries for years–cataloging, referencing, geospatially encoding, making fake historical films–before they told him he needed to find somewhere else to sleep. He got an education in international studies before setting off to be a librarian in Uzbekistan. Now he’s a freelance information architect in Seattle.

Kathryn

Kathryn Whitenton recently finished a masters at the UW Information School. She’s currently working with Angry Lapdog Productions, an early-stage startup where she works on content strategy, user testing, and interaction design.

Kris

Kris Bell is a User Experience Designer at Amazon.com, and has previously worked at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, NPower, and Ascentium. Kris was an official InfoCamp photographer the past two years, but decided to switch InfoJobs after realizing he couldn’t comment on UX best practices AND adjust aperture setting simultaneously. Outside of InfoCamp, work, and sleep, Kris like fuzzy kittens, long walks on the beach, talking about his feelings, plaid pajamas, and maple syrup.

Kristen

Kristen Shuyler is a librarian at Seattle University. She’s also worked as an entrepreneur, geographer, educational technology researcher, web designer, information architect, and adjunct professor. She enjoys bicycling, traveling, taking pretty pictures, and InfoCamping.

Matt

Matt Carthum is a bipedal primate in the family Hominidae. DNA evidence indicates that his ancestors originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago. He has evolved to become a User Experience Architect at ZAAZ where he spends most of his days in front of white boards. To relax, he brews beer, smokes brisket, sings karaoke, travels and takes landscape and macro photos.

Michelle

Michelle Maury is the music teacher at Cleveland High School. She is married to Andy Szydlowski and has become an animate supporter of all information…mainly because she has never met a info geek she has not absolutely adored. She hopes to be the kind of person you can come to for the important things in life… coffee, Drum Line, or how to turn the stupid microphones on.

Rachel

Rachel Elkington is an Online Test Designer in the Optimization group at ZAAZ. Previously, she worked in ZAAZ’s User Experience Group. This combination of disciplines means she gets to have lots of fun scheming up new ways to put qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry together. In her spare time, she heads up the Pacific Northwest chapter of the American Society of Information Science and Technology and co-produces InfoCamp. She has an MS in Information Management from the UW, and a BA in a liberal arts discipline that people told her wouldn’t get her a real job. Rachel is looking forward to meeting all the awesome peeps at InfoCamp Seattle – please be sure to say hello!

Other Awesome People

Of course, we couldn’t run InfoCamp without help from lots of other people. We rely on volunteers to help the event go smoothly. Thank you to everyone who has signed up to volunteer, and particularly to Eric Bell and ASIS&T UW who have already been helping out!

We also appreciate the advice we get from our 2009 advisory board: Tamara Adlin, Mike Crandall, Nick Finck, Corprew Reed, and Jake Wobbrock.

And we are excited to hear our invited guest speakers for 2009: Axel Roesler and Vanessa Fox!

We also would like to thank the teachers and staff at Cleveland High School for letting us use their beautiful facilities and working with us to get all of our logistics straight.

Lastly, we couldn’t run InfoCamp without help from generous sponsors. Thank you to ASIS&T Pacific Northwest Chapter, ASIS&T University of Washington Chapter, Fell Swoop, and Forum One for helping sponsor InfoCamp Seattle 2009!

Interested in being involved in future InfoCamps as a volunteer, sponsor, invited speaker, advisory board member, or organizer? Contact us at info@infocamp.info to ask about opportunities!