Teresa in the News

Her win will give the council six women and additional diversity. She will become the third Latina councilmember, following Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez, re-elected this year to Position 9, and Councilmember Debora Juarez who is both Native-American and Mexican-American. “I think it means that our democracy is beginning to reflect our community more and more,” said Mosqueda. “I think it means we can get a lot done around equal pay, around protections in the work place and making sure more of … Read More

Out of the gate, Mosqueda plans on prioritizing affordable housing, equal pay for women, and affordable child care. She’d like to alleviate the housing crisis by building affordable housing on publicly-owned land. But she says that what she’s most passionate about is using her lived experience as a woman of color with knowledge of public health policy to ensure that low-income residents have access to health care and better living standards. … Read More

Drawing on her lived experience, the newly elected councilmember says she aims to advocate for women and marginalized communities. … Read More

“It’s important that we have a democracy that’s truly representative of its people,” Mosqueda said in an interview Wednesday. “And not just in our corner of the world. There are record numbers of women and people of color running for the first time.” … Read More

"OneAmerica Votes and Washington Community Action Network candidate Manka Dhingra won her State Senate election giving Democrats a new majority and full control of Washington government. OneAmerica Votes candidates Lorena Gonzalez and Teresa Mosqueda were elected to Seattle City Council" … Read More

Mosqueda’s victory over Grant’s showed an increase in support over her campaign. In the primary, she won 31 percent of the vote over Grant’s 26 percent. On Tuesday, she secured her lead, which was more than 23 percentage points over Grant’s. … Read More

"Mosqueda won the backing of basically every labor union in town. On the campaign trail, she characterized her opponent Jon Grant's proposal to open police union negotiations to the public as anti-labor. As the new council member put it in her speech Tuesday night: "In order to win in Seattle, you must stand with labor. You must stand with the labor movement. You cannot divide us." Like in the mayor's race, labor unions came out strong for Mosqueda and they helped her win" … Read More

"In the Council Position 8 race, also citywide, Mosqueda got 62 percent in Tuesday’s count. Mosqueda, political director of the Washington State Labor Council, and Grant, former executive director of the Tenants Union of Washington State, were separated by nearly 23,000 votes" … Read More

"Teresa Mosqueda is the rare kind of all-star candidate who has the potential to transform City Hall. Mosqueda, currently a hyper-competent advocate in Olympia for the Washington State Labor Council, is an inspiring longtime champion for workers, women, children, and other marginalized people" … Read More

"Mosqueda has extensive, realistic, and creative policy proposals, backed up by research, community engagement, and an understanding of what effective policy requires. To put it simply, Mosqueda is the affordable housing candidate in this race." … Read More