Tonda Navarrete is the Vice President of Business Development and Brand Management for AMU. She and her team are AMU’s frontline representatives in matters relating to partner relationships within public safety, corporate educational partnerships, business to business (B2B), business to government (B2G), and business to consumer (B2C) interactions, veterans’ communities, and service members and their families.
Ms. Navarrete has served at APUS since 2011. She started on APUS’ Military Assistance Team, processing military TA and Veterans Benefits. Always the advocate for military-affiliated students, she became the team’s manager two years later, focusing on process improvement and regulatory compliance relating to the DoD and Veterans Affairs.
In 2014, she was promoted to a leadership role on the University’s Military Outreach Team (MOT) working primarily out of Fort Cavazos in Texas.
Ms. Navarrete is a former U.S. Army Communications Staff Sergeant with eight years of service on Active Duty. Originally from Michigan, she has served in numerous countries, including Germany, Kosovo, Korea, Kuwait, and Iraq.
Ms. Navarrete earned her MBA at American Military University. She has a B.S. in Information Systems from the University of Phoenix.