Welcome aboard, Inca!
I'm a fellow AI pursuer. (We need to come up w/ a short and catchy name for that.....)
When I began my "quest" I found out that keeping an open mind about who to contact is more important as an alumna than as a collegian. The Web offers more and more immediate information than we had as college students, plus a few extra years gives us a completely different POV than we had back then.
There's been some signs of progress on my end recently--I'll be posting some details of my own soon.
Good luck and Happy New Year!
Adrienne