Teresa Bonner brings more than 30 years of professional experience in philanthropy, foundation and
nonprofit leadership to her role as Executive Director for E.A. Michelson Philanthropy. She is a frequent presenter on philanthropy as well as on creative aging, including sessions at the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Grantmakers in the Arts, Grantmakers in Aging, Americans for the Arts, Philanthropy New York and the American Society on Aging.

Teresa previously served as director of the U.S. Bancorp Foundation, where she managed $20 million in Foundation grantmaking annually and led the company’s community relations activities; the Piper Jaffray Foundation; and two nonprofit organizations, Milkweed Editions and the Library Foundation of Hennepin County. Arts and cultural programs have long been a major focus of her professional experience and a personal passion. She is a principal in Family Philanthropy Advisors, with offices in Minneapolis and the Bay Area.

Teresa graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Dakota with a degree in journalism. After completing law school at the University of Minnesota, she clerked for the Hon. Gerald Heaney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and was a partner at the Minneapolis law firm of Lindquist and Vennum before moving to the nonprofit sector.