Leadership/Staff

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.

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...

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...

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...