Tessa was born in São Paulo, Brazil and has been working with Portuguese-English/English-Portuguese translations since 2006. Her areas of expertise are, but are not limited to, the fields of marketing, medicine, biology, engineering, economics and finance. Her education includes an English course at Sociedade Brasileira de Cultura Inglesa (7 years), Cambridge CAE Exam preparation course at Centro Britânico (6 months), Training Course for Translators and Interpreters at Associação Alumni (2 years). She also lived and worked in Los Angeles, USA, for 20 years. Tessa joined the Drake's team in 2013.