Deb McBride provides tech support for Caring for Colorado. In this role, she manages the web-based grants management system, Fluxx, updates grant payment information and supports the foundation’s various financial activities.

Before working at Caring for Colorado, Deb worked at Tri-County Health Department for 25 years. She started part-time in finance and eventually moved to the Environmental Health management team as an informatics specialist. She was part of the statewide team that developed the Colorado Electronic Disease Reporting System. She also built the initial Health Alert Network database for Tri-County and other databases for disease reporting, tracking restaurant and septic tank inspections, and tracking birth and death certificates for Vital Records. As a Spanish speaker, she translated for restaurant inspections and training classes; disease control follow-up; Women, Infants, and Children; the Nursing division; and Vital Records. She was part of TopOff 2000, a weapons of mass destruction exercise sponsored by the CDC, and had the opportunity to build the database used by the CDC to analyze data from the exercise.

Deb volunteered with the American Legion Auxiliary for 40 years as a counselor, director, and tech support for the Girls State Program, as the State President, Finance and Audit Committee Chair, and as a founding member of the national American Legion Auxiliary Foundation.

Currently, she volunteers with the American Legion’s Oratorical Program. She has volunteered on credit union credit and supervisory committees for over 30 years and currently serves on the board of Columbine Federal Credit Union, most recently as the Board Chair. She is also the treasurer for the credit union’s foundation, Columbine Connects. After 11 years of volunteering with the Colorado Environmental Health Association, she won the Milton M. Miller Award, the association’s highest honor for environmental health professionals.

Outside of work, Deb loves to travel with her nephew and grandchildren and enjoys solo travel. She has taken several train trips across the U.S. and Canada with her nephew, traveled domestically and internationally with her grandchildren, and traveled extensively in Europe as a solo traveler.