Terese Schlachter is Chief Story Teller at Ridgeback Communications, which specializes in video production, and good old fashioned well-written sentences. She is an Emmy Award-winning documentary producer, and former senior producer for the Department of Defense. Before that she covered politics and other mayhem for NBC News in Washington, DC. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Solstice Program at Pine Manor College in Boston and is seeking publication of her first nonfiction book. Terese lives in “The Shady Side” of Maryland enjoying views of South Creek, along with her husband, Jon and two beautiful and sassy …wait for it … Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs.