Hello Colleagues, 

Please join us for the Meet & Greet of wonderful candidates for the Coordinator position at the Office of Institutional Compliance, Cal Poly Humboldt Library. This position supports research excellence by providing compliance support to students, faculty, and staff in conducting research with integrity and in alignment with the university’s legal, regulatory, and ethical responsibilities, such as IACUC Animal Research Compliance, IRB Human Subject Research Compliance, Responsible & Ethical Conduct of Research. 

We sincerely appreciate hearing your feedback (please use our Survey Form) by Tuesday, September 8. 

Candidate Melanie McCavour

Tuesday, August 25, 3pm - 4pm

Library Fishbowl (Lib 209)

Candidate Spencer Steinberg

Tuesday, September 1, 3pm - 4pm

Library Fishbowl (Lib 209)

Candidate Anne Connors

Thursday, September 3, 9am - 10am

CTL Classroom (Lib 317)

Candidate Patrick Malloy

Friday, September 4, 9am - 10am

Library Fishbowl (Lib 209)

Brief Candidate Bios:

Anne Connors

Anne Connors is a senior higher education administrator currently serving as the Vice President of Compliance for a private art university. Throughout her career, she has held progressive leadership positions encompassing regulatory affairs, risk mitigation, and academic program management. Her diverse administrative background includes serving as a Director of Data Privacy, as well as directing intensive English courses and managing a university online writing lab. In her compliance leadership roles, she oversees state authorization for distance education and actively assists with programmatic accreditation processes, successfully supporting programs in meeting the rigorous standards of the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) and the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA).

She holds an MA in English from San Francisco State University, a BA in Linguistics from the University of Geneva, and a BA in English from Chico State University. Furthering her specialization in data protection, she earned a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) credential. Dedicated to global educational standards, her earlier career features more than 20 years of teaching experience in the U.S., Italy, Switzerland, and Taiwan. Additionally, she has served as a volunteer peer reviewer and team leader for the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA) since 2013, participating in numerous site visits. 

Melanie McCavour

Melanie McCavour has worked for over twenty years at the intersection of research, regulation, and community, in educational, tribal and local government roles.

She spent eleven years in laboratory work as a technician, instructor and laboratory manager, supervising students and managing lab operations and compliance, before moving into environmental assessment and regulatory review. Her doctoral research examined comparative effects on biodiversity and soils in hybrid poplar plantations, and her work has extended to pollinator protection, bioenergy, restoration, and federal environmental review of genetically engineered trees and crops with USDA APHIS. She has conducted field research and environmental assessments for utility, pipeline and forestry projects on Indigenous, First Nation and Tribal lands in Canada and the United States.

She spent a decade teaching environmental impact assessment, including at Cal Poly Humboldt, and has designed coursework and program accreditation in biodiversity. She served six years as a planning commissioner for Humboldt County and the City of Arcata, and recently as foreperson of the Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury. As Tribal Historic Preservation Officer and Program Director for the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria, she facilitated garden, museum, cultural, compliance and educational programs, and served as the primary point of contact for federal agency consultation.

 While serving as THPO she contributed to several research and doctoral projects on tribal consultation and compliance, and recently presented at the Planning Law and Property Rights conference on tribal sovereignty in California land use decisions, and on cannabis impacts on Native lands. She has organized two statewide conferences and delivers an annual CEQA updates workshop.

What connects all of it is an interest in how institutions meet their obligations without losing sight of why those obligations exist, and in a culture where care and accountability make research easier rather than harder. She holds certifications across research compliance, including responsible conduct of research, IRB and IACUC member training, biosafety, NAGPRA, cultural monitoring and federal permitting, and is particularly interested in where practice has moved faster than the regulations governing it.

She is bilingual in English and French, and lives in Humboldt County with seven dwarf goats. 

Patrick Malloy

Patrick Malloy is a higher education professional committed to collaboration, accessibility, and transparency. He currently serves as the Operations Coordinator in the Office of Academic Affairs. He has been a central point of contact for faculty and staff and worked with stakeholders across Academic Affairs to bring faculty assigned time into compliance with CSU standards. He also serves as the support staff for the University Senate, shepherding policies from committee to implementation, and ensuring clarity and consistency in Senate practices, even through the campus occupation and closure in 2024.

Patrick has worked on campus for over a decade, but has a long history here before that. While an undergraduate at Humboldt, Patrick was deeply involved in the Multicultural Queer Studies program and worked with Associated Students to found the Eric Rofes Center. He earned his Bachelors in Religious Studies before going on to work professionally in social work at local nonprofits for the next decade. Patrick worked daily with homeless youth, helping them navigate opaque systems to get the support they needed.

Outside his professional work, Patrick has also been a community organizer. He led a grassroots effort to start an LGBTQ+ community center in Humboldt. As part of this, he helped conduct a needs assessment of Humboldt’s LGBTQ+ community, coordinating data collection across the county. This organization was the site of two separate MSW research projects, and Patrick served as the community partner for both of these. Beyond this, Patrick also loves to run tabletop role playing games and hiking the local trails.

Spencer Steinberg

Spencer Steinberg has served as the Temporary IACUC and IRB Coordinator in the Office of Institutional Compliance since early 2026, supporting the committees that review animal and human subjects research at Cal Poly Humboldt.

His background is in regulatory compliance and in building the systems that make it work. At the Girl Scouts of Northern California he helped create and launch the organization's volunteer fingerprint program. Earlier, he founded and led a team building a compliance and reporting platform recognized with a development grant for fraud prevention.

At Cal Poly Humboldt he has developed two systems for the Office of Institutional Compliance: a tool that assists IRB application review, and the IACUC Protocol System, which holds the committee's full review record from submission through approval.

Spencer is a former Cal Poly Humboldt student who stayed on the North Coast. Outside work he enjoys spending time with his son, tennis, fishing, and foraging for mushrooms.