Theresa Avila Bimbela is the founder and CEO of TAB Professional Services LLC. She helps higher education programs, nonprofits, and mission driven small businesses with funding research, proposal development, grants management, and reporting. She has written and supported federal and foundation proposals totaling over $5.1 million, including a funded $1.8M Title III Strengthening Institutions proposal in 2024.

Her background includes work in a community college grants office as a Grants Analyst II and as a remote Grant Writer for Unitek Learning’s Workforce Solutions division, where she wrote grants for hospital workforce development partners. She is also an online educator at Southern New Hampshire University.

Theresa holds an M.A. in Education from Chapman University and a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She is a member of the Grant Professionals Association and a 2022 NAWBO Women of Distinction Accelerate Grant award winner.

She is also the author of Rewritten, a memoir and workbook. Her scholarly work introduces the theoretical concepts of Autoridad Arraigada and the Traslado de la Validación de la Autoridad al Marco Federal, grounded in the life of her ancestor Juan Francisco Reyes. Her writing on Californio history and nursing as a STEM field is available on the Publications page..