BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Board Member
Brandon Gore
Brandon Gore has been with Horses For Healing since the beginning. He started working with HFH in order to assist with equine and personnel safety with the larger groups and progressed to individual instruction on communication and riding techniques. He now serves on the Board of Directors and assists with site safety.
Brandon currently works in outpatient orthopedic physical therapy. He has been riding horses since the age of 3, where he competed in team roping and bulldogging from 4-H, high school, and college, to the local ProRodeo circuit.
His background consists of serving with Marine D. Co. 4th Recon Bn. from 2005-2011 with a combat deployment to Anbar province Iraq where he was involved in direct action assignments with the purpose of detaining HVT’s in support of OIF.
Brandon’s main focus as a Board member is to make sure that his brothers and sisters in the armed forces and their families get what they need, and try to share some of his own experience and love with the equine community so that they can have a safe and effective place to heal and get the most out of life after committing so much of theirs to this country.
Board Member
Dr. Donna Kwilosz
Board President
Andrew Burr
Andrew Burr is the current Board President of Horses For Healing. He has been married for 29 years to Kami Burr. and has two children named Alek, 20 and Baylor, 15.
Andrew has been involved with multiple family business and spent many years on various ranching operations in New Mexico and Texas.
He managed and successfully operated a 300-head cow calf operation in North Central Texas from 1982-1983, at the age of 17. He was also a New Mexico delegate to serve and travel to Zimbabwe, Africa for the preservation of the Black Rhino Conservancy. In his spare time, Andrew ropes, skis, fishes and love the outdoors.
Andrew graduated in 1985 from from Texas Christian University in AA Ranch Management and has a BS Animal Science Business and Nutrition/Reproduction from NMSU
He currently is the CFO of New Mexican Kennels, Inc. and is the President of the Village Mercantile Store, LLC.
Andrew has served on several other boards including the Corrales Equestrian Advisory Commission, New Mexico Governors' Trail Commission and National Cattle Growers Association.
Board Member
Debbie Manzanares
Deborah is a current member of the Colorado Army National Guard and works for Hewlett Packard full time. She has held numerous positions in the military and currently serves as the Command Sergeant Major for the 3-157th Field Artillery Regiment in Colorado Springs, CO.
Her day job is as an eCommerce Operations Manager for HP and she has been with them for nearly 22 years. She has served on a few local and international boards focusing on human trafficking and human rights. She is a Youth Program Group Leader for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors. This program helps military survivors navigate through loss and grief.
Her passions are volunteering, traveling, reading, and being outside in nature. She loves yoga and kayaking. In the last 5 years she has developed a great love for horses.