About Theresa Wilson

As a mission and community investing professional, Theresa is passionate about leveraging market-based solutions and innovative partnerships to accelerate economic development, alleviate poverty, and facilitate social justice. Theresa is an experienced operations manager for impact funds launched by foundations and nonprofits. Theresa has helped set up impact fund structures and operations or provided operating and monitoring services for the impact investing programs of 30+ clients including private foundations, community foundations, local governments, and nonprofits. Theresa has years of experience working with small businesses, supporting the development of impact investing portfolios, conducting debt, equity, and fund investment due diligence, and monitoring the impact and performance of these investment portfolios.

Prior she worked with a niche SEC registered investment advisory firm to managed internal operations and conducted investment due diligence and client portfolio management. Theresa also supported a $50M impact portfolio at Omidyar Network, worked in SME Private Equity at the IFC, supported the Market Dynamics team at Results for Development, and served as a Kiva Fellow working to launch Kiva’s US-based micro finance platform. Before Kiva, she served in the U.S. Peace Corps in the Republic of Georgia and Costa Rica.

Theresa holds an MBA and MA in Global Affairs from Yale University where she was a Forte Fellow, Executive Director of the Yale Journal of International Affairs, and co-chair of the Yale Philanthropy Conference. She earned her BS in finance and in interdisciplinary business management with a marketing minor, magna cum laude, from Miami University.