Officers
President - David Fisher
Dave graduated from Mission Bay High School, class of 1957, served in the U.S. Air Force, and retired after 40 years with the University of California, San Diego.
Vice President - David Engel
Dave Engel is part of the Plant-Based Diet Team at San Diego 350. San Diego 350 is an all-volunteer San Diego County organization concerned about climate change. They work to increase awareness of climate change and advocate for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Their organization’s values include: action-oriented; teamwork; collaboration; shared-leadership; respect for people; and peaceful demonstrations. They are San Diegans from different communities, of different ages, working or studying in different fields – some retired – who have come together to say, “Enough is enough. Global climate change is real. We must have a clean energy future. We must do this now.”
Dave is a graduate of San Diego State University and works as a Civil Engineer for the City of San Diego.
Treasurer - Judi McQueen
Judi McQueen has worked in different types of healthcare as a social worker and case manager for over 25 years, both in the acute care and skilled nursing settings. She is currently working as a Social Work Case Manager at Sharp Memorial Hospital on the trauma unit, coordinating care and facilitating discharge planning for trauma and neurological patients. Over the years, she has helped patients and families deal with a multitude of different healthcare related problems such has physical disability, drug and alcohol abuse and treatment, mental health issues, access to healthcare for immigrants, homelessness, poverty, and aging along with the health and social conditions that accompany the geriatric population. She is active in the self-governance council at Sharp Memorial Hospital and is passionate about education and process improvement in the case management and social work areas of healthcare. She holds a Masters of Social Work Degree from San Diego State University, is a LCSW, and is certified in Case Management, both through the American Case Management Association (ACMA) and the Case Management Association of America (CMSA). She is a past member of the Board of Directors for the ACMA Southern California and coordinated their education offerings throughout the year.
Secretary - Lori Saldaña
Lori is a lifelong San Diego resident, and has worked as a volunteer with various non-profits, as a university researcher, college educator, and as a California state legislator and US Presidential appointee to improve infrastructure along the US/Mexico border.
In each of those roles she’s helped create programs, policies, and legislation that have improved protection of wild lands and open spaces, and continue to protect air and water quality, and preserve the quality of life for residents in the US-Mexico border region.
Lori served as an assembly member and state constitutional officer as speaker pro tempore in the California Legislature. She presided over assembly floor sessions and was chair of the Legislative Women’s Caucus. She chaired the Housing and Community Development Committee and was a member of Elections and Redistricting, Rules, Veterans Affairs, Judiciary, and the Water, Parks and Wildlife Committees and was appointed to the Assembly Ethics Committee, to investigate complaints within the legislature.
Lori authored bills on gun safety (to end “Open Carry” in California), hate crimes, climate change, energy efficiency, and environmental protection. Saldaña and her sisters were the first in their family to graduate college. Her father, Frank Saldaña, was a career Marine and journalist who retired from the San Diego Evening Tribune. Her mother, Virginia Saldaña, had an early career in banking, before focusing on raising four daughters.