Teri Tibbett

Teri Tibbett is the advocacy coordinator for the Alaska Mental Health Board and Advisory Board on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse, and works closely with the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority in coordinating their joint advocacy effort with the partner advisory boards. In this role, she works with people impacted by mental illness, substance use disorders, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, traumatic brain injury, developmental disabilities, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, to facilitate better understanding and participation in the public process. Teri also serves as coordinator for the Alaska Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Partnership, a statewide grassroots advocacy organization, and is a steering team member of the Juneau Reentry Coalition, for which she serves as chair of the Behavioral Health & Wellness Work group. She is currently serving on a statewide work group tasked with implementing the integration of criminal justice and Medicaid reforms passed by the legislature in 2016. For ten years, Teri served as a legislative aide with the Alaska State Legislature and continues to work on legislative issues. In 2016, she co-wrote with Judge Michael Jeffery a chapter entitled “Smart Justice and FASD in Alaska: From Prevention to Sentence Mitigation” for the Springer publication Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Adults: Ethical and Legal Perspectives. She holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree and is a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.