Terri is a long-time consultant to civil rights groups, philanthropy, the business community, state and local governments, and other stakeholders on census and federal statistical system issues. She was staff director of the House Subcommittee on Census & Population from 1987-1994 and served as a congressional aide in the U.S. House and Senate for 14 years. Terri also covered the Census Bureau and federal statistics for the Obama Presidential Transition Team.

She holds a B.A. in Africana Studies from Cornell and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She now lives and works in her hometown of Stamford, CT, and teaches figure skating in her “spare” time.