Dena Marks is an Associate Director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Southwest Regional Office.  Her main responsibility at ADL is publicity, but she also serves as a liaison with law enforcement, facilitates various training sessions and workshops, coordinates regional fact finding, handles some discrimination complaints, works with ADL’s Civil Rights Committee, Latino-Jewish Relations Committee, staffs its International Affairs Committee, Strategic Communications Committee, Security Committee and coordinates Jewish security issues for the region. Before joining the ADL in April of 1999, she spent 21 years in television news.  She also has worked as a group exercise instructor, personal trainer, freelance writer, waitress, janitor, and for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.  She is a native Houstonian.