Dana Butler-Moburg has served as executive director for the Shea Center for Therapeutic Riding in San Juan Capistrano for the past ten years. In the last nine years, the Shea Center has quadrupled revenue to over $2 million budget, doubled clients to over 500 clients annually with approximately 50 varying disabilities and doubled the size of their staff. With twelve full-time staff and seven part-time and contract staff, the Shea Center is one of the largest therapeutic equestrian centers in the country.

Under the leadership of Butler-Moburg, the Shea Center embarked on a $12 million major renovation project in 2005. The $4.5 million Equestrian phase of the construction project was completed in early 2007 and the final $3.5 million Klein Family Education & Therapy Building is just getting underway.

Butler-Moburg has an 18-year background in nonprofit management and administration giving her experience in all areas of the nonprofit organization. She spent seven years with the American Heart Association in Los Angeles receiving two national awards for her work in communications and marketing.

For Butler-Moburg, a fourth level dressage rider, joining the Shea Center was the perfect combination of a personal love of horses and a professional desire to provide meaningful services to the community.

In addition to her nonprofit background, Butler-Moburg has consulted with major Fortune 500 companies as well as individual business owners on a variety of business growth, marketing and development issues through a consulting firm she ran several years ago.

Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Butler-Moburg graduated from the University of Washington in 1989 and later made Southern California her permanent home. She currently resides in Orange with her husband Frank.

Janelle is a licensed physical therapist practicing since 1990. She has been at the Shea Center since 1999 and specializes in Hippotherapy, combining her experiences in pediatrics, geriatrics, and orthopedics, acute and neurological rehabilitation to treat clients of all ages. She is an AHA (American Hippotherapy) Registered Therapist, a NARHA (North American Riding for the Handicapped Association) Registered Instructor, a graduate instructor with the Balimo^TM program and an avid equestrian.