Teri (she/her) comes from the “space in between”, the place of never fully being from here or there, she is a body of many cultures. She identifies a black mixed-race, cis-woman, daughter of Guyanese immigrants, descendant of disruptors, visionaries, culture carriers and a future ancestor. She is multilingual, neurodivergent, immigrant, sister, friend, partner, mother, elder millenial and afro-futurist who has a complicated relationship with identity labels. These particular identities capture the lineage of being that has incubated her curiosity and fascination in culture, belonging and collective liberation.

For almost 20 years Teri has supported hundreds of individuals, organizations and teams working on social change in shifting towards more liberatory leadership models and coaching collectives of leaders. She practices new ways of working, authentic communication and delegated decision making in sociocracy circles as a member of an intentional community and as a co-founding member of the Imaginal Cells Collective. In her approach to the work, Teri centers: people on the margins, justice, vulnerability, play + experimentation, relationships, learning and healing. She’s cried, laughed, fallen, been inspired, afraid, burned out and transformed by the work of social change, and she sticks with it because she believes “if it is necessary, it is possible”.