Leadership/Staff

Paul King

Library Supervisor and PPIC Coordinator
Institute of Governmental Studies
Paul King is the Circulation Supervisor and PPIC Coordinator for the Institute of Governmental Studies Library. In addition, he serves as reference staff and a technical services professional. Paul studied political science at Evergreen College in Olympia, WA.

Kris Kasianovitz

Library Director
Institute of Governmental Studies

Kris comes to IGS from the Stanford University Libraries where she was the Government Information Librarian for State, Local and International Documents and managed the Social Sciences Resources Group from 2017-2021. Prior to Stanford, Kris was the State and Local Government Information and Non-governmental Information Librarian at UCLA’s Young Research Library from 2001-2011. She received her M.S.L.I.S. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 2002, and was the recipient of the...

Mark DiCamillo

Berkeley IGS Poll Director
Berkeley IGS Poll
Institute of Governmental Studies

Mark DiCamillo is director of the Berkeley IGS Poll, a non-partisan survey of California public opinion on matters of politics, public policy and public affairs conducted by the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at UC Berkeley. Working under IGS co-directors Eric Schickler and Cristina Mora, he is responsible for overseeing the design and execution of each poll, as well as preparing reports and press releases summarizing its findings to the news media. DiCamillo has been actively involved in...

Kathryn Stine

Digitization Project Planner
Institute of Governmental Studies

Kathryn joins the Institute of Governmental Studies Library (IGSL) Team as the Digitization Project Planner. Kathryn will be responsible for and instrumental in developing the IGS Library's California local government documents digitization project plan, for which IGS received state funding to undertake.

Kathryn comes to IGSL with more than 15 years of experience managing library digitization and digital access initiatives, as well as archives and special collections processing and programs. She has extensive metadata and collection analysis skills, which are...

Luka Marks

Purchasing and Administrative Coordinator
Institute of Governmental Studies

Luka Marks is a Bay Area native and a recent UC Berkeley Graduate. Luka graduated with a BA in Sociology and a minor in Human Rights Interdisciplinary from Berkeley in 2022. Prior to joining IGS, Luka was working as a research assistant for IGS Co-Director, Cristina Mora, on her research relating to trust and race within government perspectives. Luka also worked as a Sexual Health Educator within the UC Berkeley health center as well as volunteered with the organization, Freedom for Immigrants throughout the East Bay. Interested in expanding her knowledge of research and public service,...

Jordan Gerner

Government Information Collection and Circulation Specialist
Institute of Governmental Studies

Jordan Gerner is the Government Information Collection and Circulation Specialist at the IGS Library. Jordan manages circulation and processes and catalogs archival materials. He also assists with the Library's local government digitization project. Jordan has a BA in film studies from the Academy of Art in San Francisco.

Ezra Bristow

Event and Communications Coordinator
Institute of Governmental Studies
Ezra received a BA in Studio Arts at Trinity College and studied Visual Arts and Communication Studies at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. In 2015, Ezra pivoted from visual arts to performing arts when he became one of the principal dancers and volunteer social media & marketing manager for SambaFunk! Carnaval Explosion, an Oakland-based nonprofit arts organization. Over the last five years, Ezra has supported live and virtual performances, fundraising campaigns, and events with companies and organizations like the National Institute for Mental Illness, LiveNation...

Dawn Geddes

Administrative Manager
Institute of Governmental Studies

Dawn Geddes is the Administrative Manager at the Institute of Governmental Studies. After studying English literature with a focus on Britain between the world wars, Dawn designed and managed wardrobe for theater and television, worked as a fiction editor, and produced and managed prominent e-commerce websites. She joined UC Berkeley in 2007 and IGS in 2019.

Megan Collins

Program Manager
Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service
Institute of Governmental Studies
Megan Collins is a higher education professional with a background in research and administration. Prior to joining IGS in 2021, she was the research project manager of The Shift Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, a survey-based research project focused on secure scheduling at large U.S. service-sector firms. Before joining Shift, Megan worked at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley, first as a research assistant with the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, then as a program assistant and contracts and grants manager supporting cross-disciplinary staff and...