Dina has been member of the Woman’s Fund since 2020. As a native Californian, she grew up in San Clemente, another beautiful city on the coast with scattered Spanish style homes and buildings built back in the late 1920s. The University of California San Francisco Medical Center was her first employment after graduating with a Nursing degree from the University of Virginia. Later transferring to the Medical Center at the University of California San Diego she also obtained her Masters in Nursing from Boston College and continued working in Maternal Child Care as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. Retirement came in 2014 after 35 years of Pediatric Nursing. She has two daughters, Kelly who lives and works here in Santa Barbara and Lara, a Pediatric Nurse currently working in Denver. Dina enjoys hiking, art and travel. Since moving to Santa Barbara she has also been active in SB Newcomers on committees and one term as VP of Marketing.