TERESA NEWTON-TERRES holds a Project Management Professional certification and awarded the Community Advancement Through Project Management Award for her service to National Guard Families in 2008 by the Project Management Institute. Raised in Santa Barbara California. Educated in the Mid West. Teresa worked on projects for the University of California at Santa Barbara, for the Department of Education in Washington D.C., served as a project management solution provider for an array of initiatives across the country and internationally, and has operated from a home base in seven states. Often found wandering in the mountains or experiencing the seas majesty, she believes, God's grace is a gift wrapped within each sunrise and sunset. Currently, Teresa is simply Mimi T to seven grandchildren and lives outside Little Rock in view of the Arkansas river - a river that runs from the mountains to the sea.