Rebecca Barnes has been a business owner for more than 20 years, starting and running several award winning companies in Prince William County. Rebecca served for 12 years on the board of the Chamber of Commerce and was its youngest female Chairman.(Regional) She was a founding task force member, first (co) Chairman and graduated from the first class of Leadership Prince William. Over the years, Rebecca has received numerous honors and awards while serving her community including the Seefeldt Arts Award, Business supporter of the year and three time award winner, Business of the year,Prince William Chamber of Commerce. Rebecca serves on the Executive committee and Board of Regents for Leadership Prince William and is Chair of the Marketing Committee. She is also the Chair of the Valor awards Committee, for the Prince William Chamber of Commerce. Currently, Rebecca is the Publisher of Prince William Living and Brides & Weddings magazines. Rebecca is also an active volunteer for the Occoquan Woodbridge Lorton Volunteer Fire Department as a board member and the Public Relations Specialist / Public Information Officer, where she serves as liaison to elected officials and acts as the PIO during major incidents. Rebecca studied at Northern Virginia Community College in Woodbridge Virginia. She continued her education at George Mason University, studying History and Secondary Education.

Mary Kate Bower joined Semper K9 in 2018 as an assistant, taking a hiatus in 2021 to pursue her education. She is a 2023 graduate from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, where she concentrated in Marketing and Information Technology with a track in Business Analytics. During her studies, Mary Kate gained valuable experience through internships in PR & Communications as well as Strategy & Risk Management. Daughter of a Marine Corps veteran, she is excited to return to the Semper K9 team to serve the veteran community and advocate for mental health.

Angela Graham is a Marine Corps wife of a Cobra pilot veteran. Her father served in the Marine Corps for 24 years as well as her Grandfather who fought in WW11. She has been surrounded by veterans her entire life. She holds a bachelors degree in Animal Health Technology from Murray State University. She is a registered Veterinary Technologist and loves working with any type of animal. She has had 17 years of experience working for many veterinarians at different duty stations as well as volunteering at a wild animal rehabilitation center. In her spare time, she loves spending time with her husband and two children, a three-year-old and five-year-old. She loves hiking with her family and dog and doing crafts.

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Joanna McGoff is a Virginia Native. From a very young age she has always had a passion for animals, especially dogs. It all started with a family dog and a makeshift agility course in the backyard at age 10. It was clear from that point her career path would be in the dog training industry. Joanna has 8 years of varied dog training experience, she worked many years in the corporate dog training business, volunteered as a canine handler for Virginia search and rescue and now currently owns a small successful dog training and boarding business. She is married to a police officer who is a K9 Technician in Washington, DC. They have a daughter and three family dogs in addition to a working canine and love being called the dog family.

Tisa is a physical therapist assistant working in an assisted living facility and has also worked in acute care and outpatient orthopedics over the past 20 years. Along with her husband and son, Tisa has been a K9 Coach with Semper K9 since the fall of 2015. Her dad and father in law were both in the military and she loves dogs, so she is honored to be a part of the Semper K9 family and Board of Directors and looks forward to helping further it's mission. In her free time, Tisa enjoys watching Penn State football, Flyers hockey and her son AJ on the lacrosse and baseball fields or the basketball court.

Amy Parrish has been a resident of Prince William County for over 30 years. She has been supporting Government contracts as a Technical Writer for the last 15+ years. Amy’s father served 20 years as an MP in the Army and was deployed to Operation Desert Storm. Both of her grandfathers served in military, serving in WWII, the Korean Conflict, and Vietnam. Amy has been looking for a way to give back and was very excited to find Semper K9; where she can combine her love of dogs with assisting veterans. In her free time, she likes spending time with both of her daughters, reading, kayaking, making dog toys and playing with her two rescue dogs (Milo – a mix and Peanut – a Beagle).

Shannon Schultz is a proud graduate of the University of Iowa with a degree in business administration and nonprofit management. She has spent the last ten years devoted to the nonprofit sector and dedicated to improving the communities where she lives. She first fell in love with helping military families during a college internship overseas which ultimately led her to meeting her husband and is now raising their two beautiful boys, Henry and Theodore. Being blessed to live in so many different parts of the world and country, Shannon has learned to become extremely resilient and adaptable while also working for organizations such as USO, Muscular Dystrophy Association and United Way. She most recently attended Camp Lejeune's Leadership Seminar where she developed servant leadership skills and was introduced to local and national military community leaders. As the Special Events Coordinator for Semper K9, Shannon is proud to continue enriching the lives of our nation's wounded veterans.