Supervisor, Distrito 3 — Condado de San Diego

Over the course of three terms on the Escondido City Council, Olga Diaz has earned a reputation as a tireless advocate for open space, parks, trails, libraries, arts, and core services that make Escondido a city with soul where families thrive and businesses grow. Her long record of community involvement also includes having served on the CSU San Marcos President’s Advisory Committee, the San Diego Union-Tribune Latino Advisory Board, the Voice of San Diego’s Board of Directors, and San Diego Gas & Electric’s Community Advisory Council. Olga also serves on the San Dieguito River Park Joint Powers Authority, and she previously served as an alternate on the California Coastal Commission.
 
The daughter of immigrants, Diaz was raised in a home that required every member of the family to roll up their sleeves and contribute.  She believes her experience growing up in a bi-cultural and bi-lingual family taught her the importance of hard work and perseverance. "As three term Escondido City Councilmember, my experience in local government and in a tough political climate has prepared me for this challenge. I first ran for office to push back against a City Council that did not care about social justice and equality, and I knew I had to do something about it. Now, more than a decade later, I’m proud of the transformation we’ve achieved in Escondido, and I’m ready to bring my passion for helping people and 10+ years of local governing experience to the county level," said Diaz.

 
Professionally, Diaz has worked in the fields of public accounting, data analysis, and research. She owned a local small business for ten years, and she currently works as the Interim Dean of Counseling at Palomar Community College. Diaz received a Bachelor’s degree in accounting from Santa Clara University and a Master’s of Public Administration degree from San Diego State University. She and her husband, a retired Escondido police Lieutenant and best-selling crime fiction author, live in Escondido. She is a proud mother of four children.

San Diego’s 3rd Supervisorial District includes Del Mar, Encinitas, Escondido, Solana Beach, and numerous neighborhoods in the City of San Diego.

Terra is an economist, environmental attorney, and community organizer, who teaches public policy at UCSD.

Terra served as Senior Advisor in the Obama Administration, developing strict environmental regulations to cut pollution from mining, oil drilling, and other extractive industries.

Terra has a lifelong track record of standing up to special interests. She will lead the fight to safeguard our air and water from pollution, end sprawl development, tackle our affordable housing crisis and protect our most vulnerable from the Trump Administration.

In 2018, she helped lead the grassroots effort that organized thousands of volunteers to oust a pro-Trump career politician, Darrell Issa, and flip a local congressional district from red to blue — helping win Congress for the Democrats and install a firewall against Donald Trump.

Terra graduated with a B.A. from Yale and attended law and graduate school on a full scholarship, earning her J.D. and Ph.D. from New York University. She is the author of numerous internationally award-winning books and articles and earned important research fellowships from Stanford and Harvard.

Terra worked with the United Nations, World Bank and Amnesty International to fight for social justice and a healthy environment. She helped the World Bank create their Climate Finance program, which funds billions of dollars of clean energy projects in the developing world. She also worked in Washington opposing bad global trade deals that gutted environmental protections and sent U.S. jobs abroad.

Terra Lawson-Remer will focus on defending San Diego from the Trump agenda by protecting our beaches and coastline from pollution and development, reducing traffic congestion, combating climate change, safeguarding our communities from wildfires, reducing homelessness, addressing our affordable housing crisis, ending sprawl development, and strengthening our social safety net to protect the most vulnerable San Diegans.

Terra grew up in San Diego, attended local public schools, surfed, and hiked and played sports in our parks. She’s a third-generation San Diegan. Her grandfather was a Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton. When he died in action, her grandmother raised her mom Shari as a single mom. In her free time, Terra serves as a state-certified Wilderness Emergency Medical Responder and an outdoor educator, leading teenagers on backpacking trips to teach them self-reliance, respect for the natural environment, and survival skills.

Terra is endorsed by Democrats for Environmental Action, the San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council (AFL-CIO), San Diego Progressive Democrats, State Senate President pro tem Toni Atkins, Democratic Congressmember Juan Vargas, United Farm Workers Co-Founder Dolores Huerta, former San Diego County Supervisor Pam Slater-Price, former State Senators Chris Kehoe and Dede Alpert, and dozens of other local elected officials from across San Diego County.