Ian is a part-time librarian at Highline College and a composition and communication teacher at another university in the Salish Sea region.

His professional interests and passions include information literacy, media literacy, rhetorical literacy, and democracy.

In his free time, he hangs out with his family on the coasts of the Salish Sea or watching silly reality TV, reads a lot, plays guitar, listens to music constantly, develops his fluency in Spanish, and eats every cuisine he can find.