Get to Know Team Awesome!
Coming to you from the Team Awesome bunker, a profile of one of our amazing graduate assistants.
In the spotlight today: Kiri
- Where are you from and what’s your favorite part about it? Chicago! It has some of my favourite people in it. I also love/miss the parks and lake. And food. Ethiopian especially. …And Green Mill, the jazz bar. And everything.
- What year in the program are you/what do you hope to do when you leave the iSchool? I am in my last semester! I hope I’m able to work in a public library (if there are jobs… oy…) and would prefer to work with kids or teens. But I’ll take anything public facing in the public sector.
- What is your favorite part about working at the Help Desk? I know this is super cheesy, but it’s also accurate: the people. I have the best bosses in the world (not buttering them up, I promise) and I love my coworkers. They are the best group of dorks and I miss their faces.
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- If you could live life as an animal, which animal would you choose? I would be a cat who belonged to me and my partner. They are mad spoiled.
- What’s your (or would be) your go-to karaoke song? Space Oddity – I’m a group-only karaoke kind of person.
- If there had to be an apocalypse which would you choose-alien invasion or zombie outbreak? Alien invasion – I’m very frightened of zombies. Yes, even whatever movie you’re currently suggesting.
- What was your most embarrassing teenage phase? When I was a freshman in high school. 6-month long mushroom haircut. Madly in love with a guy named Rob. He’s actually a librarian now, too! Maybe we were meant to be… *”Titanic” theme swells in the background*
- Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses, or one horse-sized duck? 100 duck sized horses. Ducks are way scarier than horses.