A gift for seeing what is possible, and a natural connector, Tera has been happiest when getting lost in whatever allowed the mind to ponder curiosities- all that is imaginable and glorious. Since she was a child, she was always seeking beauty in words, images and environment.
Following her passion for creativity, the unexpected, the story, the craft and a desire to share it with the world, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art History, Italian Language and Culture and Business Management. Recipient of the Outstanding Senior of the College of Fine Arts for her commitment to arts programming and her curatorial direction with The Joseph Gross and Lionel Rombach galleries. Accepted as a post-graduate fellow at The Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy, she studied and immersed herself in the arts and a community of artists when living and traveling throughout Europe in Paris, London and Italy in her early career. A fellowship at The San Diego Museum of Art led her to join the curatorial team on Andy Warhol's Dream America.

On her way to join a consortium of colleagues at New York City's Sotheby's Institute of Art, Tera instead landed in Chicago where she continued to pursue the arts. Here, renowned photographic portrait artist, Julie Floyd, brought Tera into her national, high end, experiential studio photography company with studios in NYC, LA, SF and Chicago. Julie made Tera her National Director of Marketing at the age of 23 with no marketing experience and she spent the next 13 years growing the company and, under Julie’s tutelage, becoming a self taught photographer, designer, hospitality professional, event producer and collaborating with and managing the company's many artists and discerning clientele. In 2019, Tera became a co-owner of Orcas Island Winery out of a desire to raise her son on the island and pursue a more intentional lifestyle. Here, she has returned home to raw beauty in many ways. The winery was always envisioned to be a vessel where the space can be held to ponder and champion art.