She earned a bachelors degree in biological research before receiving her JD from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Teresa has interned for the Bioethics Defense Fund, largely created the curriculum and syllabus for a Masters course entitled "Law and Bioethics" for the University of Mary, and completed the National Catholic Bioethics Center certification program. More importantly, she has a great love for her Catholic faith, enjoys following developments in law and science, and strongly believes that there are times that science goes too far and other times where science uncovers very helpful discoveries that may be unnecessarily feared.