Theresa Marie Cusimano is the Executive Director of Colorado Campus Compact and leads the higher education consortium known as the Intermountain West ~ Four Corners/Four States. Dr. Cusimano is a Juris Doctorate of Law and Public Education Policy from the State University of New York at Buffalo where she led the Buffalo Public Interest Law Program, funding law students' work in public interest and nonprofit legal settings. Cusimano received her Master's degree in Higher Education Administration from Cardinal Strich College while she was the Assistant Dean of Students there for five years, heading up the service-learning program within both new student orientation and Freshmen Seminar course redesign.

Dr. Cusimano is a passionate advocate for education and  worked as a policy analyst for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, legal counsel for the U.S. Department of Education, legal counsel and advocate for the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops and the State University of New York's Education Opportunity Program.

Dr. Cusimano believes that education is the pathway through which access, economic development, and community sustainability are possible.