Tanya Villanueva Tepper & Ray Tepper

Tanya Villanueva Tepper was widowed on September 11th, 2001 when her firefighter fiancé, Sergio Villanueva, answered the call to the World Trade Center and never came home. In the years following Tanya found sanctuary in Miami, bought a motorcycle and found healing on her rides around South Florida. It was on one of these rides that she drove into a gas station and met Raymond Tepper, a fellow biker who had just gotten a ticket for violating the noise ordinance with the loud pipes on his Harley. Their fated meeting would lead to friendship and everlasting love, and the two were married in 2006. They are living happily “even” after in Miami with their two daughters, wigglebutt dog, bearded dragon, and goldfish. Highlights of their story were captured in the Peabody award-winning documentary, REBIRTH. To learn more please visit tanyavtepper.com.