Tereza Marks
Tereza Marks is a Certified Nonprofit Professional that has been involved in animal welfare for over 20 years, since she helped lead a grassroots movement to make progressive changes in an animal shelter outside Washington, DC. She has served on boards of animal welfare organizations in Maryland, Virginia, and Florida, and as an Executive Director of governmentally contracted animal sheltering facilities and statewide animal welfare organizations in Virginia, Arizona, and Washington. She also serves on the faculty of both Grand Canyon University and Mesa Community College where she teaches environmental science and biology, respectively. She has a bachelor’s degree in ecology from the University of Arizona, a master’s degree in life sciences from the University of Tennessee (for which she is the Phoenix alumni chapter president), and a graduate certificate in nonprofit leadership and management through Capella University. Ms. Marks is also a board member of Companion Pets in Crisis, which helps unhouse and marginally house veterans and their pets and is certified as both a yoga and Pilates instructor. She lives in Phoenix with her husband and two rescue dogs.
