Staff Directory

Besh, Carly
Legislative Correspondent

Borger (Petersen), Karina
Communications Director

Boyle, Garrett
Legislative Director

• Appropriations (except Defense and Military Construction)
• EPW: Denali Commission

Burney, Angelina
Administrative Services Director

• D.C. Tour Coordinator
• Intern Coordinator

Chong, Kellie
Legislative Correspondent

Daimler-Nothdurft, Kristen 
DC Scheduler

• DC Meeting and Event Requests

Daimler, Mike
Operations Manager/Systems Administrator

DelBene, James 
Knauss Marine Policy Fellow

Dietderich, Anna
Legislative Aide

• HELP: Public Health, Substance Abuse/ Mental Health, Child Welfare, Domestic Violence, Disabilities
• Foreign Relations: Global Health, Women’s Issues

Ebarb, Amber
Legislative Assistant

• Alaska Native and Indian Affairs
• Rural Affairs

Evers, Alexander
Defense Policy Assistant

Finnegan, Kensey
Legislative Correspondent

Heiserman, Ben
Digital Media Specialist

Hickey, Matthew
Military Legislative Assistant

Lundquist, James
Legislative Correspondent

McCarthy, Karen
Senior Legislative Assistant

• Agriculture: farming, nutrition
• HELP: education, labor, adoption and foster care
• HSGAC: federal employees, USPS (including bypass mail)
• Other: libraries, museums, archives, arts; Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts

McInerney, Anne 
Legislative Assistant

• Banking
• Budget
• Finance
• Commerce
• Telecommunications

Nadeem, Alea 
Military Fellow

• Appropriations: Defense, Military Construction
• Armed Services
• Foreign Relations
• HSGAC: Homeland Security
• Intelligence
• Veterans Affairs

Nelson, Cristina
Coast Guard Fellow

• Arctic
• Commerce: Coast Guard, NOAA, maritime, oceans
• EPW: marine transportation
• Other: Senate Arctic Caucus, Senate Ocean’s Caucus
• Space, volcanoes

O'Brien, Devin
Legislative Correspondent

Pawlowski, Michael
Chief of Staff

• Banking: banking, financial institutions, housing, urban development, mass transit, trade, insurance, securities, economics
• Budget
• Commerce: telecommunications
• Finance: taxes, trade
• Joint Economic Committee

Pense, Stacy
Staff Assistant

Ramponi, Angela
Legislative Assistant

• HELP: Health finance, Drug Pricing, FDA, Pensions, Health IT, Health Workforce
• Finance: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, CHIP, TANF

Ray, Hannah
Press Secretary

Rentz, Aleksander
Staff Assistant

Robertson, Ann
Legislative Assistant 

• Agriculture: seafood
• Arctic
• Commerce: Coast Guard, NOAA, fisheries, maritime, oceans, science (NSF, Smithsonian), consumer product safety
• ENR: subsistence
• EPW: ESA, fisheries and wildlife, Corps of Engineers, EPA (water), marine transportation
• Other: CDQ groups, fish and marine mammal commissions, Senate Oceans Caucus

Weingartner, Michael 
Correspondence Director