Teresa Mosqueda


Teresa Carmen Mosqueda is an American politician and labor activist from Seattle, Washington. She was elected to the Seattle City Council in 2017 to represent the at-large position 8.
In November 2013, she was the only member of the Washington Health Benefit Exchange who voted against increasing the salary of the health exchange's CEO by 13%.

Personal life

Mosqueda is of third-generation Mexican descent on her father's side and Polish/Swedish/Norwegian on her mother's. She up grew up in a middle-income, politically active household. Both her parents are educators. Her father teaches political economy and social change at Evergreen State College, while her mother was an early learning professional who ended up working in higher education policy.
Teresa lived in an apartment in the Queen Anne neighborhood until buying a townhouse in early 2019. Teresa's husband, Manuel Valdes, is an Associated Press journalist. In April 2019 it was announced Teresa was believed to be the first sitting Seattle city councilmember to be pregnant; expecting a daughter in October 2019.

Electoral history