Margaret Fine serves as Chair of the Mental Health Commission for the City of Berkeley since 3/2021 and as a Commissioner since 6/2017. She has conducted mixed-methods research assessing call data and community engagement research related to 911, as well as researched literature on 911 and crisis response/services for over four years. She is appointed to the City’s Steering Committee that is implementing an alternative non-police responder program after developing comprehensive reports with a consultant in 2021. In May 2022, she received an annual award for mental health achievement from the City of Berkeley. Previously she served as a Deputy City Attorney in the Child Welfare Unit for the Philadelphia Law Department, including on-call overnight duty. She works as a Reference Law Librarian at the reference desk of the Alameda County Law Library. She received her JD from the George Washington University Law School, MSSc in Human Rights & Criminal Justice from Queen’s University Belfast, and PhD in Sociology from the University of Liverpool in the UK.