Mark Zamora is the Executive Director for Blue Horizons Academy, a Recovery High School. Mark has been working in the field of substance abuse and mental health for over 28 years. He has collaborated with the Georgia Substance Abuse Council. Mark worked as the Program Director for the Rebound Drug Program with DeKalb County Juvenile Court. He served as Executive Director for Abundant Life Academy Boarding School for troubled teens in Kanab, Utah. Currently, in addition to his position at Blue Horizons Academy, he is the founder and Executive Director for New Day Life Recovery, a residential program for young adults and men with drug and alcohol dependency issues.

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Mark has a Bachelor’s in Business Administration with a focus on Management from Northwood University, and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Texas.

Originally educated as an electrical engineer at Georgia Tech, Stephen’s life took an unexpected turn, leading him to reconsider the direction of his life. It’s a story you have to hear for yourself. After earning a master’s in theology, Stephen helped start a relevant and vibrant church in the inner city of Dallas, Texas. While a student, he founded and was CEO of LIFE-Love is For Everybody, a program that emphasized showing God’s love in practical ways. Stephen also mentored mentally challenged adolescents. Feeling called to help those with addictions, Stephen’s experience with growing new, exciting, and relevant programs in that field has become his strong suit.

 
During his nearly twenty years of experience in the field, in addition to holding a private practice as a counselor, and serving as program director for several substance abuse programs, he also helped launch substance abuse treatment programs in Dallas, Denton, and McKinney, Texas, and in Lawrenceville, Cumming, and Atlanta, Georgia. These included adult and adolescent outpatient, opiate treatment, and adult and adolescent anger management programs. He also worked as a counselor with The Road Adventure-an experiential weekend for adolescents originally created by Dr. Phil McGraw.

Lindsey is a Georgia Certified Peer Specialist of Addictive Disease (CPS-AD). She is employed with the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network as the Forensic Peer Mentoring Training Project Director. For the past few years, she has supported individuals in telling their recovery stories all over the state of Georgia with the RESPECT Institute of Georgia.

Lindsey is a woman in long-term recovery and with God on her side, she has survived 12 years of addiction, 1 year of homelessness, and 3 years of being incarcerated. She feels it is her responsibility to help spread hope by advocating for peer support and being the evidence that recovery is real!

Rachel Tribble has over 15 years of experience working with young people in recovery. Rachel also maintains an extensive background in education and educational leadership. She has worked in a variety of educational institutions, including middle school, high school and college.

Rachel is a leader in curriculum development and instruction. She has developed curriculum for both secondary and postsecondary institutions.

Rachel maintains a passion for working with young people in recovery, in addition to guiding students to achieve what they never thought possible.

Lori Boissiere is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. Lori developed a keen interest in educational psychology in her early college years and was inspired to become an educator by the host of education specialists in her family. She attended Louisiana State University and Southern University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Education.  She went on to acquire her Masters Degree from Walden University in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment.  After her teaching career, she took a 2 year sabbatical and returned to New Orleans to work on education reform. There she worked with several organizations including Orleans Parish Juvenile Court, the New Teacher Project, and the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (CADA).  She now lives in Atlanta and works with Eckerd Connects, a nonprofit organization working with young adults.

Tanya Zamora is the Administrative Director for Blue Horizons Academy. Tanya has worked in the education field for over 30 years. She began her professional career as a classroom teacher in Dallas, Texas. After earning her M. Ed. in School Counseling from the University of West Georgia, she became a professional school counselor. Tanya went on to earn a Specialist in Education (Ed. S.) in Technology in Education from Lesley University. She retired from the public school sector in 2017.