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Teresa Contreras, Department of Social & Health Services, Wenatchee

WHC Advisory Board Member

Teresa Contreras

Department of Social & Health Services, Wenatchee

Teresa Contreras was born and raised in Othello, Washington and moved to the Wenatchee Valley in 1982. She holds diploma in Professional Business Administration. She and her husband, Gaudencio Contreras, have two grown children.

She is a long-time employee of the Department of Social & Health Services and is currently a Secretary Senior for the Child Protective Services (CPS) Unit.

Ms. Contreras has served as the Chair for Fiestas Mexicanas since 2002. The event is the annual celebration of Mexico's Independence in Wenatchee and has attracted over 8,000 people. Fiesta Mexicanas is an affiliate of the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center. She also coordinates the four-yearly visits of the Mexican Consulate to Wenatchee.

She is a member and currently president of the Mariachi Booster Club in Wenatchee and has been a member of the Mariachi Northwest Festival Planning Committee since 2003.

Ms. Contreras is a member of the Wenatchee Diversity Advisory Council and a Board Member at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center since June, 2006.


Seattle General Hospital Nursery.

Three suffragists post signs advocating women's suffrage on the side of a low wood structure in Seattle. Asahel Curtis took this photogrpah for the Washington Equal Suffrage Association.

Ten raspberry pickers, all women, stand in a row at the edge of a raspberry field in Western Washington.

Three American Red Cross women wearing heavy coats and Red Cross caps, offer bottles of milk and doughnuts from baskets to rows of African American soldiers returning to Fort Lewis at the close of World War II. Photo by Turner Richards, Tacoma, WA.