Theresa Secord (b.1958) is a traditional Penobscot basketmaker and the founding director of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance (MIBA). She learned to weave in a traditional setting on Indian Island, Maine, in 1988 with the late Madeline Tomer Shay. During Secord’s twenty-one years of leadership, MIBA was credited with helping to save the endangered art of ash and sweetgrass basketry by lowering the average age of basket makers from sixty-three to forty-four and increasing participation numbers from fifty-five to more than 100 in the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes. 

Among honors for MIBA and for her artistic excellence, Secord received a lifetime achievement award, the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2016; the First Peoples Fund's Jennifer Easton Community Spirit Award; and the Prize for Creativity in Rural Life from the Women’s World Summit Foundation presented at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, for helping basketmakers rise out of poverty.

More recently, she was named a Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellow and received an honorary doctorate from Colby College in Maine. She weaves traditional Wabanaki baskets using her great-grandmother's wooden forms and tools that have been handed down to her and has taught many native apprentices to weave baskets. Her work resides in museums and private collections across the nation, and she has won prizes for her art in national, juried art shows. Secord continues to consult and volunteer on boards to help advocate for other native artists in Maine and in the Nation.