NAME: Trish Keady
TITLE: Associate Registrar
Dept./Unit: Registrar’s Office
When I started working here: A 2008 Boalt alum, I returned in 2012 as a fellow working with the SLPS projects. I worked for another year in Student Services then moved to the Registrar’s office in 2014.
What I do in ten words, more or less: I work with instructors to make sure all classes are graded and conform to the curve. I also work with students to make sure everyone has satisfied the requirements for the degree.
Something you don’t know about me: In grade school I won a writing contest with an original story told from the point of view of a soccer ball.
One weird fact about the town I grew up in: I grew up in Minnesota, famous for its lakes, which are home to many thousands of Canadian Geese. The geese are not especially great neighbors, and many view them as pests. One year, the town I grew up in decided to limit the overpopulation of geese by dispatching city workers to lakes and ponds to seek out nests and shake the goose eggs to keep them from hatching. The theory was that the adult geese would continue tending the eggs but no new goslings would be added to their number (horrifying, I know). Fortunately, the practice ended after a few weeks. I like to think that lawyers intervened to educate the town about the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which protects Canadian Geese, but I wasn’t there at the time and don’t know for sure.
The best part about working here: The people! The Berkeley Law staff are smart, interesting, hard working, and dedicated. The school would not be what it is without them.
If I could have any job in the world (besides the one I have now), it would be: I’d be a novelist, though perhaps not a very good one.