Teresa M. Giacoman is a Senior Program Associate with the Homecoming Project and joined Impact Justice in September 2022. Teresa has spent their career implementing programming within nonprofits and local Bay Area universities. Prior to joining Impact Justice, Teresa worked as a Program Manager for two educational equity nonprofits and as a Client Services Coordinator at UnCommon Law. In her role with UnCommon Law, she supported clients and their advocates as they navigated the California discretionary parole process and prepared for re-entry. Growing up in a low-income community in Oakland as a systems-impacted individual informed Teresa’s dedication to intersectional, compassionate, justice-driven community work.
She has her BA from Saint Mary’s College of California, where they also worked as a college instructor and conducted research on anti-racist community engagement practices.