Leadership/Staff

Mary Watson

Purchasing and Administrative Coordinator
Institute of Governmental Studies

Originally from Western Pennsylvania, Mary Watson graduated from Cal Poly Humboldt with a BA in English and a single subject teaching credential in 2014. She worked as the Administrative Coordinator for the University Senate of Cal Poly Humboldt, and, most recently, as an Administrative Associate in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. In her leisure time Mary enjoys going to concerts and attending board game nights with her partner, as well as reading, watching films, and creating art.

Eric Schickler

IGS Co-Director, Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science
Charles and Louis Travers Department of Political Science

Eric Schickler is Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of three books which have won the Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for the best book on legislative politics: Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress (2001), Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the United States Senate (2006, with Gregory Wawro), and Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power (2016, with Douglas Kriner; also winner of the Richard E....

Megan Collins

Program Manager
Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service
Institute of Governmental Studies

Megan Collins manages the Matsui Center's student programs, providing professional development, experiential training, and advising for Cal undergraduates who are interested in public service. Her portfolio includes the Cal-in-Sacramento Fellowship, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Fellows in Government Service program, the...

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...

Leadership/Staff

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.