About Mark

Mark is from Lock Haven, PA. He graduated from Lock Haven High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Niagara University in Lewiston, NY, in 2000. After living and working in New York City through the early 2000’s, Mark moved to California, where he trained as a carpenter and built Passive Solar custom homes with one of the nation’s premier green builders. A lifelong conservationist and environmental justice advocate, Mark returned to South Central Pennsylvania in 2012, continuing to build homes and specializing in historic restoration, sustainability, and energy-efficiency, starting Temons and Co. Builders a year later. His commitment to sensible, responsible construction led to work in home accessibility, and in 2019, Mark began working with the Commonwealth and nonprofit organizations to design home improvement projects to keep seniors living in their homes through retirement or disability and saved PA taxpayers more than 100 million dollars in the process. 

Mark will tell you that he has wanted to be a State Senator since his 6th-grade class trip to Harrisburg. He has been a community organizer since returning to Pennsylvania in 2012, improving relationships between police departments and their communities and helping formerly incarcerated folks to readjust to society after leaving prison. In 2018, he started  training and recruiting volunteers to knock on doors for Southern York County’s Democratic Congressional candidate. He managed and served as Policy Director for the 2020 Congressional race in the same district. He has coordinated and volunteered with local races in Cumberland, York, and Lancaster Counties, and in 2022, he was a candidate for the PA State House of Representatives in the 98th House district. 

During that campaign, Mark met Kristal Markle, the Democratic candidate from the 87th district, at a training at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union outside Harrisburg. They got married the next year and live in Mechanicsburg with their 4 children and standard poodle.

Mark now works as a policy advisor and the Chief Relationship Officer for Bossy Girl Leadership, a workforce development firm founded by Kristal Markle-Temons in 2017. Bossy Girl trains and consults businesses to promote cultures of servant leadership that empower women and promote diversity. Kristal Markle-Temons has been a leadership consultant and training facilitator for more than two decades, and Bossy Girl works with other small businesses, Pennsylvania's family-owned farms, multi-national tech companies, and our growing local banking industries. Mark facilitates relationships and monitors compliance with state regulations and government agencies for Bossy Girl's clients. 

You could say his job is making government work better for all of us, from Temons and Co. Builders to Bossy Girl Leadership. That's the experience that he will bring to the PA State Senate.