Mary Jo serves as Chief Operating Officer at Bay Area Community Resources. Her 30 year tenure at BACR has yielded extensive programmatic growth and cemented the reputation of the organization as a respectable, responsible, and reliable leader in its field. Before joining BACR, Mary Jo attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln with a focus on Political Science and administration. After joining the Nebraska Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, she assisted in writing State regulations for substance abuse treatment and served as a Legislative Liaison the the Governor's office.  Before relocating to California to take position of Executing Director of the Alcoholism Council of Marin (San Rafael, CA) she was formerly the Executive Director of the Lincoln, Nebraska Council on Alcoholism and Drug Addiction.