Theresa Soares is a student voice  advocate, dyslexic, and philanthropic adviser. She entered her professional career as one of the youngest women ever to be hired by the United States Department of the Navy. After two years at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California, she joined The Harry Singer Foundation in Carmel California where she currently is a donor adviser. Theresa is a student at Mills College in Oakland California where she is studying urban education and sociology. Currently, she is covering organic public interest radio reporting in the Oakland Unified School District. Her interests range from dyslexia advocacy, to empowering student voices within education, and female entrepreneurship. Theresa is the founder of the dyslexia blog “Due Dates & Dyslexia,” She writes regularly for stuvoice.org, educationnews.org, and The Huffington Post. Follow her on twitter @Theresa_Soares

          “If all of the questions you’re asking seem to get you in “trouble”… then you’re asking all of  the right ones.”