Victoria Carlborg

Victoria Carlborg is a part-time communications associate with CADCA, joining the organization in February 2010 after taking a year off to relocate to Northern Virginia on her husband’s Marine Corps orders to the Pentagon and to stay home with their baby daughter. Before that, Victoria worked as a media and prevention specialist for CADCA’s 2008 Coalition of the Year, the North Coastal Prevention Coalition near San Diego, Calif., and also served on the San Diego County Health and Human Services’ Health Advocates Rejecting Marijuana and Binge and Underage Drinking alcohol marketing workgroups.

Victoria began her interest in substance abuse prevention and treatment when she was the national vice-president of a non-profit founded in Southern California called Kids Against Crime as an 8th grader. As part of her duties with KAC, Victoria volunteered on a hotline that dealt with the gamut of teenage problems and coined the phrase “peers with ears” when designing their brochure. A few months after graduating high school, Victoria followed her other interest, communications, and was hired as a news assistant for The San Bernardino County Sun newspaper, owned by Gannett at the time. She worked her way through California State University by researching and writing articles in the news and features departments at the paper, as the editor of her college paper and with a retail job or two.

Upon college graduation in 1998 where she studied education and communications, Victoria was promoted to a full-fledged staff writer in The Sun's features section and met her husband, who, like Victoria, hails from the Los Angeles area. After the couple married, Victoria then worked in journalism for the Freedom Forum in Arlington, Va., the San Diego bureau of the Associated Press and The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper before transitioning to the public affairs field in 2002. Victoria spent the next four years as a manager in the marketing, membership, community relations and special events departments for Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Barnes & Noble, and the Girl Scouts which all led her back to prevention with her NCPC position in 2006.