A technical writer by trade for 41 years, Theresa Madison Miles is an aspiring author only recently moving into a self-published memoir. Educated in Illinois and Wisconsin, Teri has dedicated her life to serving others in a coaching/mentoring role as a secondary education instructor (HS and collegiate levels), as a corporate trainer and consultant in a risk management function, and as an age group swim coach. Tapping her talents and skills in swimming and running track have helped her train and compete at high levels working toward pre-trial competitions. But when a professional career began drawing to a close and a family support system abandoned her, she reassessed her values and that commitment to serving others. After moving to a new city 8 years ago, building a support network and finding new, sustainable relationships had never been harder- especially given her renewed purpose- establishing a foundation that will be a focal mission to serve as a safe physical meeting place for outcast LBGTQ+ persons with an emphasis on Trans adults with nowhere to turn for help. Local agency support typically does not address adults caught in the crossfire of family, employers, religious practices, and home. The foundation will support the development of LGBTQ+ liberation through the establishment of a physical 'safe' space to emphasizing creation or re-purposing an existing site for a-
-Transition House for short-term emergency residence for homeless LGBTQ+ adults and...
-Recreation Center to provide a means of social gathering in a place free of hatred or judgment.
-Resource Center from numerous supporting LGBTQ+Q+ agencies and sponsors for meeting rooms and assembly/social gatherings
-Transition Rooms useful for those in need of exploring options available for clothing to support identity transition.
>Teri has used her writings as a means of both self-therapy and to create a guide of life to others struggling with similar issues. There are no universal 'one size fits all answers, but her messages offer critical learnings that require authentic courage and vulnerability to bear one's soul to others, in print and in conversation. Readers and close friends describe her as 'ferociously honest with a patient and loving way that is easy to listen and follow'.

Teri's early childhood plays a major role in her decades of life history unfolding in ways few would have ever predicted or imagined. Her writings explore those historic events and dissect situations that provided the growth and direction needed to begin this final phase of her life. That strength and resiliency is captured throughout her memoirs, providing a sense of purpose and testing her faith all the way.

Teri received her BS degree at Illinois State University in 1978 and her master's at Kennedy Western University in 2004 en route to a 41-year career in corporate risk management. Among several roles over the years, she offered professional consulting to global business development focusing on workplace liability risk. Within that timespan, she was also an adjunct instructor at a Wisconsin University campus for graduate-level health promotion studies for 9 years and another two before that in HS construction technology in a 2-year assignment right out of college.