Mara is the granddaughter of Teri Joy Eisen, William Eisen and Willis and AnnMarie Jackson, Jr.
She is the great-granddaughter of Willis Jackson, Sr. and the late Monica Jackson of Troy, Illinois; Iris Jones of Sedalia, Missouri; the late Marshall and Estelle Eisen; the late Betty Joyce Eisen; the late Sylvia Feldman; and the late Robert Dickinson of Tahlequah, Oklahoma.