List of people associated with Margaret Marks

This is a page dedicated to Margaret Marks, and all things Margaret including her circle of family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, work etc.

Please see Margaret’s Circle for a page of links to people associated with Margaret who have their own individual pages here.

## Jill Zheng

### Jill Zheng

**Jill Zheng** was born in Fairfax, Virginia in 1996. Jill is second generation Chinese-American, her parents having emigrated from Guangzhou China in the early 1990’s.

Jill graduated from Trinity Christian School in 2014 before studying Economics at Barnard College of Columbia University. While at Barnard, Jill founded the multicultural friendship group The Barnard Sisters which comprised of Naomi Aragon, Ananya Prakash, Kate Bailey and Margaret Marks.

At Barnard, Jill was an activist, working with We Said Enough and the Omega Phi Beta sorority at Columbia University. Jill also supported the MeToo movement. Jill also advocated for LGBTQIA+ rights with the Columbia Queer Alliance, oSTEM, Out to Innovate and Bialogue, as well as queer affirming religious organizations such as The Riverside Church, the Metropolitan Community Church and Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.

Jill graduated in 2018 before eventually moving to the Midwest where she became an insurance agent. She has two children.

## Naomi Aragon

### Naomi Aragon

**Naomi Aragon** was born in 1997 in Chalon-sur-Saône to a French mother and a Spanish father. Naomi attended Lycee Polyvalent Niepce-Balleure before eventually receiving a full academic scholarship to attend Barnard College of Columbia University.

Naomi studied Neuroscience and Behavior at Barnard before graduating in 2019. While at Barnard, Naomi was a member of The Barnard Sisters, a multicultural friend group founded by Jill Zheng. As Margaret Marks was the only other member of the group to speak French fluently, Naomi often spent time conversing with her to enjoy conversations in her native language.

At Barnard, Naomi was an activist, working with We Said Enough and the Omega Phi Beta sorority at Columbia University. Naomi also supported the MeToo movement. Naomi also advocated for LGBTQIA+ rights with the Columbia Queer Alliance, oSTEM, Out to Innovate and Bialogue, as well as queer affirming religious organizations such as The Riverside Church, the Metropolitan Community Church and Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.

After graduation, Naomi became a specialist in the field of advertising and marketing, she works for a major advertising agency in Paris after having previously worked in the Seattle and London. While in London she received a Master’s degree in psychology. She is married to a British advertising executive.

## Ananya Prakash

### Ananya Prakash

**Ananya Prakash** was born and raised in 1996 in Connecticut to parents from Southern India. Despite coming from a wealthy family, Ananya was raised with very working class values and was always involved in community affairs and activism.

Ananya graduated from King School and attended Barnard College of Columbia University where she studied Environmental Science. While at Barnard, Ananya was a member of the multicultural friendship group The Barnard Sisters.

At Barnard, Ananya was an activist, working with We Said Enough and the Omega Phi Beta sorority at Columbia University. Ananya also supported the MeToo movement. Ananya also advocated for LGBTQIA+ rights with the Columbia Queer Alliance, oSTEM, Out to Innovate and Bialogue, as well as queer affirming religious organizations such as The Riverside Church, the Metropolitan Community Church and Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.

Ananya graduated in 2018, she attended Harvard Law School and became a lawyer and environmental activist both in the United States and Asia.

## Miranda Snow

### Miranda Snow

**Miranda Snow** was born on June 9, 1993 in Portland, Oregon. She attended the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre. In 2011 Miranda was an apprentice at the New York City Ballet alongside Margaret Marks, Miranda danced with the company for 9 years before eventually retiring to become an actress in 2020. In 2012 after it came to light that Margaret was being sexually abused, Miranda invited her to come and live with her and three other female dancers in a shared apartment, Margaret was Miranda’s roommate from 2012 to 2014.

Miranda eventually explained in an interview that she retired after being passed over several times for soloist and after she reached the point that even getting out of bed hurt. Miranda starred in several movies and television series after the lockdowns. Miranda and Margaret remain close friends with Margaret even attending a few of Miranda’s film premieres.

### Amy Monroe

**Amy Monroe** was born in 1975 in Texas, she is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States. She studied dance from a young age with the Houston Ballet and as a teenager she performed with the Joffrey Ballet in New York and London Ballet Theatre in England.

Amy was a professional ballerina in the UK and abroad for several years, additionally training with coaches from Cirque du Soleil and performing around the world as an acrobat and aerialist for 6 years. In 2006 Amy briefly taught ballet at Pasadena Dance Theatre, one of her students was a then 10 year old Margaret Marks. Amy went on to become an actress.

### Margaret and Rainey Qualley

Margaret met future actress Sarah Margaret Qualley while attending the Professional Children’s School, both were apprentices at New York City ballet companies, Margaret at the New York City Ballet and Qualley at the American Ballet Theatre. Through Qualley, Margaret met her sister Rainey, the three became friends and have remained in touch ever since. Through their friendship, Margaret has been able to attend several celebrity events such as the Just One Eye x Creatures of the Wind in 2016.

## Sentinel Blue Women’s Team

### Sonia Knight

**Sonia E. Knight** is a ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Detention and Deportation Officer. Sonia was born on July 30, 1990 in Redding, California. After graduating from Portland State University in 2012, she started her career as a California Highway Patrol officer at the Auburn Area Office. In 2018, Sonia was accepted to Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a Detention and Deportation officer, she began her ICE career at the ICE Los Angeles office. Sonia went on to become a member of the elite ICE Fugitive Operations. Sonia joined Sentinel Blue in 2022.

### Tracy McGaren

**Tracy E. McGaren** is a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detective. Tracy was born on October 27, 1991 in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter of legendary LAPD detective Brian McGaren. Tracy began her career working retail in 2009. In 2012 she followed in her father’s footsteps and began her LAPD career as a patrol officer in the North Hollywood Division before eventually being promoted to detective in 2018. Tracy went on to become a member of the Gang Impact Team of the LAPD Gang and Narcotics Division. Tracy joined Sentinel Blue in 2022.

### Charlie Lenzen

**Charlotte A. "Charlie" Lenzen** is a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) deputy. Charlie was born on September 2, 1993 in Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Charlie began her career as a University of California Police Department officer at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2014 before eventually joining the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in 2020. Charlie went on to become a member of Operation Safe Streets and a member of the Special Enforcement Bureau (SWAT). Charlie has been a member of Sentinel Blue since 2021.

### Rachel Petersen

**Rachel M. Petersen** is a Los Angeles Port Police (LAPP) officer. Rachel was born on May 24, 1995 in El Monte, California. After graduating from San Jose State University in 2017, Rachel began her career with the Los Angeles Port Police. Rachel went on to serve as with the Homeland Security Investigations’ Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST). Rachel has been a member of Sentinel Blue since 2022.

## Sentinel Blue Men’s Team

### Thomas Howe

**Thomas V. Howe** is a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Sergeant and the founder of the Los Angeles Precision Shooting Team. Thomas was born on June 29, 1978 in Los Angeles, California into a second generation law enforcement family. Thomas joined the Los Angeles Police Department as a reserve officer in 1996 and an officer in 1999. Thomas began his career as a patrol officer in the Valley Division, in 2010 he was promoted to Sergeant and became a patrol supervisor in the West Los Angeles Division. Thomas is also an LAPD Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) officer and tactical instructor. In 2022, Thomas was severely injured in a training accident when he fell while repelling down a fire tower during a LAPD SWAT training exercise. He was able to make a full recovery and was declared fit to return to duty as both an officer and a SWAT operator.

Thomas took up competitive shooting in high school and eventually joined a local team in 1998, the team ended up disbanding in 2007 due to lack of funding. In 2017, Thomas founded the Los Angeles Precision Shooting Team which is also known as Sentinel Blue. Sentinel Blue takes part in competitions in the Law Enforcement Multigun (LEM) category, it also advocates for high standards of law enforcement and civilian weapons training and safety. Despite being the team captain of the Sentinel Blue Men's Team, Thomas only competes occasionally and spends most of his time in an organizational role with the team.

### Jason Hughes

**Jason G. Hughes Jr.** is a Ventura County Sheriff’s Office (VCSO) deputy. Jason was born on July 29, 1996 in Phoenix, Arizona and was raised in Ojai, California. Jason graduated from Nordhoff High School in 2014. After beginning his career as a stockroom clerk in 2014, Jason eventually joined the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in 2018. Jason is currently assigned to the Moorpark station. Jason has been a member of the Sentinel Blue Men's Team since 2023.

## Miscellaneous

### Kate Marin

**Kathleen Eloise "Kate" Marin** is an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention and Deportation Officer, she is a current member of the Los Angeles ICE Fugitive Operations team.

Kate was born on March 4, 1992 in Rexburg, Idaho to bank manager Thomas Lee Marin and operational support specialist Jill Moore Marin. Kate graduated from Central High School in 2010, she attended Brigham Young University–Idaho where she graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Kate began her career with the Burbank Police Department in 2015, she worked patrol and community support. In 2021, Kate was accepted to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a Detention and Deportation Officer (DDO) with Enforcement and Removal Operations, she began her career at ICE Los Angeles. In 2022, Kate joined ICE Fugitive Operations. In February 2023, Kate along with HSI Special Agent Maggie Marks became the face of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's new recruitment campaign targeted specifically at women. Both Kate and Maggie modeled in several photo campaigns, attended recruitment and job seminars, and spoke at public events in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Despite growing up in a family active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Kate has said she isn't personally religious and has no specific religious beliefs. Kate has been in a long term relationship with Burbank Police Department sergeant Ryan Kay since 2018. Kate is an avid semi-competitive golfer, she also enjoys tennis and yoga.

### Daisy Hicks

**Daisy Hicks** was born on September 14, 1996 in Neptune Beach, Florida to Investigative journalist Christie Nolan Hicks, and businessman Nathan James Hicks. Daisy graduated from Duncan U. Fletcher High School in 2024 and attended Barnard College where she earned a BA in Cognitive Science in 2018. While a freshman at Barnard, Daisy was roommates with Margaret Marks, the two remaining friends during college and afterwards. Daisy attended the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University where she earned a MA in Journalism in 2020. Daisy began working as a reporter in Orlando, Florida in 2021. Daisy married Robert Hernandez in 2022, they have two sons, twins Jake and Oliver (b 2023).

## Scott Cordero

### Scott Cordero

**Scott Cordero** was born in 1990 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey to a single mother. Scott dreamed of becoming an actor and eventually moved to New York to try auditioning. Scott was unsuccessful and eventually started working as a bartender at The Dead Poet, a bar popular with the more upscale crowd of Columbia and Barnard students.

Scott had several brief romantic and sexual relationships with students and fellow bartenders over the years. In 2020, Scott lost his job due to the pandemic and moved home to New Jersey, he eventually got a job as service manager at a restaurant in Perth Amboy.

Margaret first met Scott Cordero in 2017 when she was 21 and he was 27. Margaret and her friend Naomi Aragon went to The Dead Poet to relax after an exam, Naomi suggested finding some people to hook up with and after Naomi went home with a Fordham senior, Margaret found herself drawn to Scott. Scott was a well known ladies' man who’d slept with dozens of Columbia, Barnard and Fordham students over the few years he’d worked there.

Shortly after their flirting began, Scott was given Margaret oral sex in the bathroom. After Scott’s shift was over, Margaret was back at his place where she and Scott had rough sex against the wall then on his bed. The next morning Margaret snuck out quietly without saying anything to Scott. Later that day Scott called her, after Margaret explained she’d only been with one guy before and wasn’t expecting it so intense, Scott apologized and the two agreed to remain friends. They slept together a few more times, however Scott was more gentle and sensual than the first time.

Of their first encounter Margaret said "He screwed me so hard I couldn’t hardly move afterwards. When he rolled over and went to sleep, that’s when I realized we had vastly different views on intimacy."