Therese is a professor at Golden Gate University (GGU) and a management consultant. She has worked, consulted, and lectured in the fine arts sector and has served on numerous boards of directors and on panels for the City of San Francisco and SFUSD’s Visual and Performing Arts Office. She is the treasurer/ board member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She was the executive director/chief executive officer of ArtSpan, a San Francisco visual arts nonprofit, where she executed turnaround and re-organization. She was the development director of Young Audiences of Northern California. She served as secretary/board member of Oasis for Girls, a young women’s resource organization, and as the treasurer/executive committee member of the Arts Providers Alliance of San Francisco, a consortium of arts education providers. Ms. Martin is a doctoral student at GGU. She holds a MBA in executive business administration from GGU, a CFRM from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, and a BFA in art history from the University of Kansas.