She completed her Associate’s at Portland Community College in Oregon in 2019. There she served in their student government as Black Student Union Coordinator, and Student Body President. She is extremely passionate about social justice, combating climate change, and stresses in her work that all issues need to be viewed through an equitable lens.

In her year and a half at Portland Community College, she helped create an annual social for the students, staff, and administration of color on her campus, hosted a number of events to honor the history and stories of people of color like Honoring Black Wall Street, lobbied in Washington DC for ethnic studies, spoken at AASHE about Eco-Social Justice, written grants to bring speakers such as Tara Houksa to her campus, as well as spoken on many panels, and facilitated group discussions.

After graduating from PCC, Teri moved to North Carolina to complete her Bachelors’s and Masters’s in Management with a minor in African American history. Her dream is to open her own K-12 school that teaches Black studies, and an investment firm that focuses on Black-owned businesses.