New Member Profiles
Meredith Munger
Meredith Munger is a loan officer at CrossCountry Mortgage with a focus on helping families to buy, build, renovate and…
Lisa Nokes
Lisa Nokes is the Executive Diretor of Peninsula Community Senior Center. While Lisa’s long career in Mortgage Banking and Financial…
Sarah Maisonneuve
Associations-Earth Discovery Institute
Sarah Maisonneuve, Executive Director of Earth Discovery Institute, has two decades of experience developing and managing conservation and education programs,…
Katie Do
Katie Do is Client Services Director for Blair Search Partners, an executive search and recruiting firm specializing in working with…
Gaurav Mishra
Gaurav Mishra is a consulting Psychiatrist for Correctional Health Partners at San Diego Juvenile Hall. He is an active member…
Fred Manak
Fred Manak’s employment experience encompasses 40 years in Pharma/Biotech across 8 companies, both large and small, including start-up companies. His…
Kim Jones
Kim Jones, President of The Kinship Fund, brings over 35 years of experience managing start-ups and nonprofit organizations. An innovator…
Alex Lutz
Alex Lutz is a financial advisor at EdwardJones, helping individuals and businesses with their long-term goals by developing a tailored…
Gloria Shepherd McCoy
Gloria Shepherd McCoy was born and raised in Wilmington, North Carolina, and later graduated with a degree in Chemistry and…
Kyle Caldwell
Captain Kyle Caldwell enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1990 and was commissioned as a Naval Officer 2001. As a…
New Member Profiles
Michael Kemmer has lived all of his life in California, and half of that in San Diego. As long as he’s been here, he’s viewed Rotary as a part of his tie into the fabric of the community. He grew up under the tutelage of Rotarians first as an Interact student, and later as an…
Associations – Girl Scouts Carol Dedrich is the Chief Executive Officer for Girl Scouts San Diego. Carol attributes the lessons she learned as a young Girl Scout with preparing her for leadership roles in school, the military, and throughout her career. Now, she is a champion of girls and women, committed to helping them overcome…
Biotechnology—Gene Sequencing Technology Terry Caskey grew up on a small farm in the Central Valley of California. As the first in his family to attend college, he was proud to complete his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from UCSB, then his master’s and Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Massachusetts. He has spent 20+ years…
Associations-Home of Guiding Hands Falon serves as the Vice President of Operations for Home of Guiding Hands, overseeing the functionality of 28 residential group homes and a 25,000-square-foot resource center located in El Cajon. Her responsibilities extend to managing the transportation department and supervising the entire IT network supporting over 800 employees across office, remote,…
Education-State University-Program Manager Veronica Perondi currently serves as the Assistant Director of A.S. Programs for Associated Students at San Diego State University. In this role, she’s dedicated to empowering students through leadership and engagement programs. She earned an undergraduate degree in International Relations from San Francisco State University where she was was actively involved in…
Education – Private University – Professor Tom Herman is a teacher and journalist. He is the tax columnist for The Wall Street Journal’s wealth management section. After graduating from Yale, Tom joined the news staff of The Wall Street Journal in New York, where he was given the food beat. Tom wrote for The Wall…
Associations – Institute of Reproductive Grief Care In February of 2023, Dale Gray took over the role of Director of Mission Advancement at the Institute of Reproductive Grief Care. Prior to joining the Institute, he served at the university level as the Director of Philanthropy, and has over 23 years experience before that driving sales…
Social Services and Welfare – Neighborhood House Association Kristine is the Senior Director of Nutrition Services for the Neighborhood House Association where she has worked for sixteen years. Originally from Seattle, WA, Kristine joined the Navy right out of college, then received her BS in dietetics from Kansas State University, and later her Master of…
Retired-Law Mary Dawe is a retired Senior Staff Attorney of California State of Appeal, where she served for 27 years. She grew up in Southern California, graduated from UC Riverside, and later went to Law School at USD with the support of her late husband Jim, while they were raising three young children. Mary says…
Associations-Meals on Wheels Amie Brown is the Chief External Affairs Officer for Meals on Wheels San Diego County. She came to Meals on Wheels in 2018 after working in the nonprofit sector for more than 25 years, with a strong emphasis in healthcare for the underserved. She has extensive experience with growing nonprofit organizations, earned…