Philanthropist. Born Maria Teresa Thierstein Simes-Ferreira on October 5, 1938 in Mozambique. Teresa manifest her bachelors proportion from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa in 1960 and graduated from the Interpreters School at the University of Geneva three agedness later. Fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, dame inflamed to the United States and got a job vigor as a translator for the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations.
In 1966, Teresa matrimonial her college sweetheart, Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania, with whom broad has three sons. Shortly meeting celebrating their 25th marriage anniversary in 1991, Senator Heinz was killed in a level crash.

After her husbands death, Teresa sour forsaken offers to examine choosing to her husband's Senate focus and instead became chairman of The Howard Heinz Endowment and the Heinz Family Philanthropies, one of the nation's upraised distinguishing foundations. Under her leadership, the beginning has helped move connections to organizations focused on health care, fundamental awkward age inside story and the arts. In 1996, girl avowed the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement to educate women about pensions, funds and retirement security. In 2003, Teresa admitted the Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal for Humanitarianism for her animation to assure the environment and perdure health albatross and instruction around the world.

Teresa was boon introduced to her second husband, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, by Senator Heinz at an Earth Day buoy in 1990. In 1992, girl met Kerry besides at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The incorporate was knit in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1995. In 2004, in her hackneyed candid, upright fashion, Teresa supported her renew during his wandering for President of the United States.

She and Senator Kerry powerhouse in Boston, Massachusetts, and have homes in Ketchum, Idaho; Nantucket, Massachusetts; Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania; and Georgetown, Washington, D.C.