Staff Directory

Bergerbest, Nathan
Deputy Chief of Staff

• Appropriations: Defense, Military Construction
• Armed Services
• Ethics
• Foreign Relations
• HELP: labor (*jointly with Karen)
• HSGAC: Homeland Security
• Intelligence
• Judiciary
• Rules
• Small Business: SBA, tourism
• Veterans Affairs

Besh, Carly
Staff Assistant

Borger (Petersen), Karina
Communications Director

Boyle, Garrett
Legislative Director

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

Burney, Angelina
Administrative Services Director

Chong, Kellie
Staff Assistant

Daimler-Nothdurft, Kristen
DC Scheduler

Daimler, Mike
Operations Manager/Systems Administrator

Dietderich, Anna
Legislative Aide

Edens, Krystal
Assistant to the Chief of Staff

Finnegan, Kensey
Legislative Correspondent

Gilman, Ben 
Legislative Assistant

• Health Care
• Pensions

Heiserman, Ben
Digital Media Specialist

Lefton, Madeline
Legislative Assistant

• Transportation
• Tax
• Telecommunications

Mallott, Ben 
Legislative Assistant 

• Arctic
• Agriculture: rural development
• Banking: housing, urban development
• ENR: subsistence, ANCSA, ANILCA
• EPW: Denali Commission, Village Safe Water, tribal transportation, EDA
• HSGAC: Census
• Indian Affairs: BIA, EDA, IHS, NAHASDA, tribal transportation, SBA 8(a), Indian education (*Karen lead staffer on Indian education)
• Other: CDQ groups, fish and marine mammal commissions, Arctic Caucus

McCarthy, Karen
Senior Legislative Assistant

• Agriculture: farming, nutrition
• HELP: adoption and foster care, children’s issues, education (*lead staffer on Indian education)
• HSGAC: archives, federal employees, USPS (including bypass mail)
• Labor
• Other: libraries, museums, arts; Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts

Oats, Marcus 
Military Fellow

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

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

Ramirez, Juan
Coast Guard Fellow

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

Ray, Hannah
Press Secretary

Robertson, Ann
Legislative Assistant 

Weingartner, Michael 
Legislative Correspondent