Teri Koski

Teri is a person that loves Vietnamese food, learning, and filling out questionnaires. She has had many roles in her life, including being a social worker, performance poet, student, handywoman, mental health advocacy volunteer, pet mom, and yard sale enthusiast. She has several pieces of paper that say she is smart, can follow instructions and jump through hoops well. She is driven by a need to learn and to challenge herself, and abhors doing things the way that they have “always” been done. Teri is bad at pop culture trivia, playing themed games and knowing who sings the song currently on the radio. She has lived in Spokane for about 20 years, 18 of them willingly. She drives by Riverfront Park each workday between her doggy day care and her coffee shop and never tires of the view. When she begins to tire of the view, she travels. Her recent trips include North Dakota, Washington D.C., Tekoa, and England. When she tires of traveling, she returns to her 1904 farmhouse that is her in “house form”. Her partner is a truck driver from New York who is also a smart and opinionated woman. Much of their conversation involve temperatures of rooms and what to have for dinner. That is, if the cat approves.