Skip to content

Theresa Cooper

profile card avatar

Sierra Leone

Theresa is a graduate of the University of Sierra Leone Fourah Bay College. She has eight years of experience working in community development, project implementation in education, child protection, governance, gender, and HIV/Aids. She is an activist for the protection of children, to ensure their rights becomes a reality. Theresa is the project officer for the School Me project at Save the Children, working with national and community stakeholders in 60 school communities. Her job is to ensure gender parity and equal access to primary education for both boys and girls for them to be retained and successfully complete their primary education. She works with men and women's groups that she formed, teachers and the school management committees to ensure safety and friendly learning environment for children. Theresa is innovative, hard-working, and result oriented. She is very respectful and lays down principles in administrative dispensation.

Your support turns hope into action

Donate to the Barack Obama Foundation.

The Barack Obama Foundation is registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (EIN 46-4950751).

More Leaders Africa

More about the Leaders Program

A headshot of a young woman smiling at the camera. The young woman has olive skin and brown eyes. She has dark curly hair that hits her shoulders and is wearing a blue denim shirt.

Leaders

For emerging leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing the common good.

Learn More
A person wearing a hoodie with the hood up is shown in profile, crouching down to light a candle. She is seen in profile in the glow of candlelight coming from dozens of votives surrounded by assorted flowers. A set of small votive candles are arranged in the shape of a heart near the person’s foot. Six heart-shaped red balloons float above the vigil.
  • The Center
  • Building the Center

Join other Obama alumni in coming together to support the naming of the Water Garden at the Obama Presidential Center in honor of the life and legacy of President Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham—as a gift for the President’s 61st birthday.

Learn more
placeholder
  • Defending Democracy
  • Leaders
Learn more
President Obama speaks on a panel. In the background is a board that reads, "CHICAGO." It is a bright blue color with the Chicago map on the right side.
  • Watch
  • Barack Obama

Watch President Obama share his vision for the Obama Presidential Center during a surprise visit with supporters and stakeholders—a vision for a public space that will honor history, help revitalize the South Side, and connect people throughout the communi

Learn more