Following the 1985 Inauguration of President Reagan, she decided to stay. After a career in hospitality, she launched her new Marketing, Special Events and Conference Planning Company, Paradigm Event Management, in 1996. Among her clients are Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and National Associations. Teri served for eight years on the Advisory Board of the National Foundation for Teaching Entr
epreneurship, is Vice Chair of the District of Columbia Republican Party and served as a delegate to the 2004 Republican Convention. Teri is also the volunteer Executive Director of Miss District of Columbia Scholarship Organization, a preliminary to Miss America. Teri and her husband Michael just celebrated 17 years of marriage, and she has two very pampered Yorkies, “Xuxa” and "Zsa Zsa."