Teresa joined International Tree Foundation in 2018. Previously she worked as a Senior Programme Manager at the Green Belt Movement which was founded by the late Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai. Teresa studied Environmental Science at the undergraduate level and has a Master’s degree in Project Planning and Management from the University of Nairobi. Teresa has over 10 years of experience empowering community-based organisations in environmental management, forest, and water resource management, programme coordination, community mobilization, resource mobilization, and gender integration in natural resource management.