About.

Founded in 2018, True Blue Service Dogs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of training and placing service dogs and emotional support dogs with adults and children suffering from Asperger's, Crohn's disease, panic attacks, PTSD, diabetes, seizures, and with mobility impairment. Our goal is to enhance the quality of life of individuals who retired from the military and law enforcement communities, as well as civilian adults and children for whom the assistance of a dog could mean more socialization, less hospitalizations, enhance happiness, and engaging again full time in society. ​We strongly believe that with our dogs we can help reduce the suicidal index rate in the military veterans and law enforcement communities.

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Our Team

Cecilia Anastos. M.A. / CPDT
President / Lead Trainer

Cecilia Anastos is a certified professional dog trainer with over 25 years of experience training dogs without force and without painful methods. Her unique methods are focused on developing a leadership relationship with the dog in order to have a trusted companion that will follow cues at all times not out of fear but out of respect and love for its handler.
Her methods of raising puppies are unique and produce well-behaved and loyal companions.
Cecilia's upbringing as Zen Buddhist gives her ideal calmness and infinite patience in searching the best way to interact with the animals she treats and train. Cecilia is also a well-vetted instructor at law enforcement agencies, and US Navy SEAL community. You can see her complete professional background in LinkedIn

Jonathan Campoli
​​Assistant Trainer

Jon is a former US Navy SEAL K9 Handler. He also has the heart of an angel and the temperament of a Buddha. Jon understands canine behavior and how it can be shaped without the use of force. Our dogs love him, and we are delighted he is a member of True Blue Team. 

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Board of Directors

Maj Gen (Ret) Sheila Zuehlke, USAFR
​Chairman of the Board

Maj Gen (Ret) Sheila Zuehlke retired from the United States Air Force in June 2017 after 34 years of distinguished service, including as Major General and Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, 24th Air Force, Air Forces Cyber. During her Air Force career, she also served as the senior reserve advisor to the Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency. In addition to serving in the United States Air Force, Ms. Zuehlke founded and ran a software development company prior to starting her current company providing cyber security consulting services.  Ms. Zuehlke is a member of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Reserve Forces Policy Board, an independent adviser to the Secretary of Defense. She also participates in the San Diego Cyber Center of Excellence’s efforts to secure the city’s critical infrastructure and is engaged in a number of volunteer efforts focused on raising awareness of cyber security for our high school and middle school students.

Marsha Wilson
Board Member
Marsha Wilson is the CEO and Co-founder of ScaleSec, a service disabled, veteran owned small business and security-first cloud consulting company that helps clients with compliance implementation and cloud security engineering. Her career has afforded her great opportunities to support clients in the Department of Defense, Energy Sector, Healthcare, and more recently in the DevSecOps and Automation space. Marsha holds a Bachelor’s in English and a Master’s in Business Administration. She is a mom to three kids, two cats and one dog. Her certifications include CISSP, PMP, CISA, and OSCP.

Dr. Pia Romano
Secretary

Pia is dedicated to facilitating healing through a specialized blend of Hands-on Healing and other Energy Medicine techniques. This individualized and transformative approach to increased health, vitality and awareness will help you look and feel younger, build internal strength and at the same time clear old, stagnant energy. You can visit her website here.

Wendy Joplin
Treasurer
Ms. Joplin has served as CPA is many distinguished firms. She brings that wealth of knowledge to TBSD.

Nick Selby
Board Member

Nick Selby serves as Director of Cyber Intelligence at the New York Police Department. His focus is on crimes that leverage the Internet, such as child exploitation, fraud, organized retail crime and identity theft. From 2012 until 2016 he ran StreetCred, which created technology for law enforcement. He now consults law enforcement agencies on information technology, intelligence, and process. With professor Peter Moskos, Nick co-hosts the Quality Policing Podcast (https://qualitypolicing.com)

He is co-author of In Context: Understanding Police Killings of Unarmed Civilians (Calibre Press/CIAI, 2016); Blackhatonomics: An Inside Look at the Economics of Cybercrime (Syngress, 2012); and technical editor of Investigating Internet Crimes (Syngress, 2013).