Theresa is a social enterprise/business owner of multiple entities, property investor, and passionate advocate for breaking poverty cycles and building prosperity with the Pacific communities in Aotearoa; having first hand experience herself being raised in social housing in South Auckland. She holds a Bachelor of Business majoring in Accounting and Property and comes with 20 years' accounting, management and finance experience in the private sector. Theresa currently works in the NGO sector as a contractor for financial mentoring, running financial literacy facilitation and home ownership programmes tailored for the Pacific communities.

She is a Trustee to provide a perspective for the Pacific community.