TT Wright has lived in Oregon with family since 2008. She was born and raised in San Francisco. As an older member of Gen heX, she spent the entirety of her teenage years ensconced in the eighties. Her twenties played out, at times with with some turbulence, against the backdrop of 1990s New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Developing a personality off-screen was a luxury and a life-saver.

TT’s introduction to html <3.2> by Bay Area tech/creatives at the San Francisco Digital Media Center in 1996 led to early work in web design. Highlights: meeting David Talbot during the infancy of salon.com and being flown to Redmond, Washington on a Microsoft jet as part of a pitch team for a dial-up interactive web mystery that featured an “eyeful of Shockwave Flash animated scenes”.

Wright studied addiction at UC Berkeley and immersed herself in Bay Area drug reform beginning in 1999. In 2000 she was a public speaker supporting the first ballot initiative decreasing criminal drug penalties in California.

In 2018 she was appointed to an administrative board by the Oregon Supreme Court to conduct reviews of foster care placements on behalf of the DOJ in Deschutes County. Over the two years she served her community in this capacity, she was exposed to hundreds of pages of case files as well as direct contact with the kids, biological parents, foster parents, attorneys, DHS caseworkers and CASA volunteers.

This experience gave her an unvarnished look at how addiction can impact family systems.