Mariana Tosca is an actor, producer and social activist. She sits on the Board of TheTenDollarClub.org, a nonprofit organization which funds poverty alleviation projects in underdeveloped countries and founded the Los Angeles Homeless Coalition, offering shelter, relief and skills training to the homeless population there. She serves on the Advisory Board of Rex & Friends Foundation, a nonprofit group providing music education and music therapy to people who are blind or living with autism. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Academy of Music for the Blind, where she has volunteered teaching Drama. Additionally, she sits on the Advisory Board of DreamCatcher Wild Horse & Burro Sanctuary and Born Free USA. She serves along with Dr. Jane Goodall on the Advisory Council of Save the Chimps, the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary which is home to hundreds of chimpanzees retired from the NASA space program, bio-medical research and the entertainment & pet trades. She studied Acting at the American Conservatory Theatre, sat on the Board of Directors of the Alliance Repertory Company and Theatre East and is a member of Mensa International. She has also served as a campaign advisor for candidates for Governor, Attorney General, State Senate and State Assembly in California, New York, Oregon and Montana.
