Teresa Burrell Board of Directors

Teresa is a child advocate. Although, retired from the practice of law, she continues with

speaking events to help educate the public on child abuse. She has spoken at Court

Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) training sessions across the US. She presently writes

mysteries with a protagonist who represents abused children.

As an author, she writes books that hopefully will instill some awareness in the public of

the child abuse that exists in our society. Each month for the past year and a half she

have used her on-line profits to send sungear to the Albino children of Tanzania.

Received the highest award given by the Volunteer Lawyers Association for pro-bono

work two years in a row in 1991 and 1992. The award was for providing free legal

services to families without resources.

Received a Community Service Award for working with neighborhood children in San

Bernardino,CA, in 1985.

She coached neighborhood girl's softball in the west end of San Bernardino to help keep

the children occupied and to instill pride in the teenagers. This continued for nine years in

the '80's. We received the Sportsmanship Award for six of those years.

Teresa Burrell