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Karen Marks
Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept
Aquatic Education Manager
Karen Marks is Aquatic Education Manager at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The program goals are to increase participation in recreational fishing, and uses a volunteer train-the-trainer model to teach fishing to youth and adults – these volunteers along with a small staff of three reached over 75,000 people in 2017. Karen currently serves on the Aquatic Resources Education Association (AREA) board, a unique national non-profit dedicated to the promotion of recreational fishing. She previously served on the Texas Children in Nature Partnership Steering Committee ~ Community Team. Karen is certified as a NAI Certified Interpretive Guide, and as an ACA kayak instructor. For fifteen years, she shared her passion for the outdoors with girls and their families as a Girl Scout troop leader, during that time she also completed a Bachelor’s of Science in Aquatic Biology from Texas State University.