Theresa Preston-Werner

Member, Fundraising Committee

Theresa (she/her) has spent the past two decades working to understand global poverty and injustice and to support efforts on the ground aimed at transforming political, economic, and social systems in order to better the lives of individuals.
Theresa received her BA in Anthropology and Gender Studies from Scripps College and her PhD in Anthropology from Northwestern University. In the U.S. and abroad, Theresa has worked with, advised, and founded various non-profit and for-profit organizations in fields ranging from girls and education to women and family planning to youth and technology to donor organizing in philanthropy. She is the founder of and board chair for 128 Collective, a progressive think tank working toward a climate-safe world for everyone. This work brings climate-curious donors together to co-fund ambitious science-driven projects focused on shifting power relations and fueled by movements of intersectional actors who have the most to gain from a just transition.